Legal Guide for Bloggers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal

Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post.

WCAG 2.0 Checklist

This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on.

Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines,

10 Mistakes Logo Designers Can Make When Designing Logos - Free Logo Critiques

It Begins: "Staffers at The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday were given a newly compiled list of rules for "professional conduct," which included a lengthy guide for use of online outlets, noting cautions for activities on social networking sites. In an e-mail to employees, Deputy Managing Editor Alix Freedman wrote, "We've pulled together into one document the policies that guide appropriate professional conduct for all of us in the News Departments of the Journal, Newswires and MarketWatch. Many of these will be familiar.""

* Business and pleasure should not be mixed on services like Twitter. Common sense should prevail, but if you are in doubt about the appropriateness of a Tweet or posting, discuss it with your editor before sending. FAIL

Policy examples for companies planning to implement social media.

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for web 2.0

Although designing usable systems requires far more than simply applying guidelines, guidelines can still make a significant contribution to usability by promoting consistency and good practice. We use this list of guidelines in our consultancy work. For best results, remember to interpret the guideline in context — this requires a bit more thought but ensures you will get a lot more from your review. —  DAVID TRAVIS, JULY 6, 2009

Although designing usable systems requires far more than simply applying guidelines, guidelines can still make a significant contribution to usability by promoting consistency and good practice. We use this list of guidelines in our consultancy work. For best results, remember to interpret the guideline in context — this requires a bit more thought but ensures you will get a lot more from your review. — David Travis, July 6, 2009

/.../Finally, some of the benefits I've found of having this document in my armoury are: -To get buy-in, explain Twitter's importance to non-believers and the uninitiated, and face down accusations of bandwagon-jumping -To set clear objectives and metrics to make sure there's a return on the investment of staff time (and if there isn’t, we’ll stop doing it) -To make sure the channel is used consistently and carefully, to protect corporate reputation from silly mistakes or inappropriate use -To plan varied and interesting content, and enthuse those who will provide it into actively wanting to do so. -As a briefing tool for new starters in the team who will be involved in the management of the channel

Helpful resource on Twitter

Mashable's Twitter Guide Book, a one-stop shop for getting up to speed with everything Twitter, is now available for download.

Guía para utilizar Twitter en las comunicaciones entre gobierno y ciudadanía

• Human: He warns that Twitter users can be hostile to the "over-use of automation" - such as RSS feeds – and to the regurgitation of press release headlines: "While corporate in message, the tone of our Twitter channel must therefore be informal spoken English, human-edited and for the most part written/paraphrased for the channel." • Frequent: a minimum of two and maximum of 10 tweets per working day, with a minimum gap of 30 minutes between tweets to avoid flooding followers' Twitter streams. (Not counting @replies or live coverage of a crisis/event.) Downing Street spends 20 minutes on its Twitter stream with two-three tweets a day plus a few replies, five-six tweets a day in total. • Timely: in keeping with the "zeitgeist" feel of Twitter, official tweets should be about issues of relevance today or events coming soon. • Credible: while tweets may occasionally be "fun", their relationship to departmental objectives must be defensible.

Fascinating breakdown of how a bureaucracy tries to fit itself within 140 characters. Some aspects are right on, others are only fascinating. At least they're looking at what government "digital engagement" might look like.

Guidelines suggest tweets should be frequent, timely and credible

Even its author (Neil Williams) admits that a 20-page strategy paper for government departments on how to use Twitter might be regarded as "a bit of over the top" for a microblogging tool with a limit of 140 characters a message. (...) He suggests that nothing too onerous is involved. Each department's "digital media team" should only need to spend less than an hour a day running their Twitter streams. A quick discussion of potential tweets at the morning press cuttings meetings should be followed by emails to minister's private offices to gather more material, and any incoming messages should be replied to. However, the idea of official government use of a tool that provides a confidential and confessional glimpse into somebody's personal life and views appears at first sight to be something of an oxymoron.

UI

Student Blogging Guidelines | always learning

Easy to follow

Cross-posted on the Tech Learning Advisors Blog Only one month into the new school year and almost every middle school student has their own blog hosted at

Teaches students how to blog.

draft of this revision

- Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

Tech Director Jen Hegna over in the Byron (MN) schools developed this set of guidelines for the staff in her district. (She was motivated, she said, partially by posts here and here on the Blue Skunk. Cool!) Anyway she's given permission for me to share her work here and says readers are welcome to use and adopt as well:

Guidelines for teachers when posting to social network sites such as Facebook.

Late Friday afternoon, Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Senior Editor Milton Coleman sent a memo to the staff with a social media policy—effectively immediately—aimed at staffers’ use of “individual accounts on online social networks, when used for reporting and for personal use.” The new policy was translated externally by WaPo ombudsman Andy Alexander on his blog, along with a worst-case illustration: the decision by Managing Editor Raju Narisetti, responsible for features and the web, to shut down what appears to have been a small Twitter account intended for a private audience of friends and associates (as private as something that goes to 90-ish people can be) after some of his comments were called into question.

Late Friday afternoon, Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Senior Editor Milton Coleman sent a memo to the staff with a social media policy—effectively immediately—aimed at staffers’ use of “individual accounts on online social networks, when used for reporting and for personal use.”

The Washington Post's social media guidelines for its journalists are thought by some to be a little on the stringent side... "All Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens. Post journalists must recognize that any content associated with them in an online social network is, for practical purposes, the equivalent of what appears beneath their bylines in the newspaper or on our website."

# 1. ラベルはフィールドの上に配置 # 2. フォーカスは視線の先に # 3. デザインのクオリティは信頼を与える # 4. ランディングページのスクロール # 5. リンクはやっぱりブルー # 6. 検索ボックスの文字数 # 7. ホワイトスペースの価値 # 8. ユーザビリティテストの重要性 # 9. プロダクトページは作りこむ # 10. コンテンツのような広告

「ラベルはフィールドの上に配置」が良かった

fumfum

ユーザーにあなたのウェブページを容易で、そして楽しくアクセスできるようにする実用的なユーザビリティの10のポイント（ガイドライン編）をSmashing Magazineから紹介します。

this is for when you have to write your own policy

ecommerce mistakes

By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious

Правила продажных блоггеров в оригинале

Ab Dezember gelten neue Regeln, die die US-Wettbewerbsbehörde jetzt erlassen hat. Danach müssen Blogger oder Nutzer, wenn sie ein Produkt bewerten, "die materiellen Beziehungen, die sie zu den Anbietern des Produktes oder der Dienstleistung haben, offen legen". Sonst droht eine Geldstrafe in Höhe von 11.000 US-Dollar - ganz gleich ob Geld gezahlt oder Test-Produkte bereitgestellt wurden.

la legge

"To Create An App That Customers Love, Zoom Out" : de nombreux conseils qui ne valent pas forcément que pour le développement d'applications iPhone...

Looking for examples of Corporate Social Media Policy? This template was vetted by top corporate lawyers. Save yourself a few hours’ worth of research and work!

api design

On API Design Guidelines, Books, Java, Neuroning

In the 3 years Ive been in business Ive seen many different job requests come in. However, of all my job requests, only about 10% actually ever go through. There are all sorts of reasons, but many times its due to some common issues. This leads me to believe that many people out there dont know the preferred practices when it comes to working with, and hiring designers.

A good list of do's and don'ts that all potential clients should read (hah!)

Nice blog on policies and guidelines for Enterprise Social Media

guidelines

Política de uso de Social Media empresariales y directrices

corporate social media guidelines

An open source approach for establishing standards and practices in digital production.

An open source approach to applying standards to production

PolicyTool is a policy generator that simplifies the process of creating guidelines that respect the rights of your employees while protecting your brand online

PolicyTool is a policy generator that has you answer a brief questionnaire and provides you with a complete Social Media Policy customized to your company.

USER EXPERIENCE RULES

About This page describes the authoring and use of style guides created to ensure consistency across a product or web site. The style guide may covers anything from branding, usage of colors, and page layout, to development practices and standards.

User Interface style guides resource

This page describes the authoring and use of style guides created to ensure consistency across a product or web site. The style guide may covers anything from branding, usage of colors, and page layout, to development practices and standards.

RT @veen: Apple's guide to preparing your website for the iPad: http://j.mp/buDp6S

Apple Technical Note TN2262

How to modify web content for the iPad

Time to get busy

Platform-specific considerations for web content in Safari on iPhone OS devices, with specific information for iPad.

Some choice observations on UX including: ‘People can only look at so much information or read so much text on a screen without losing interest. Only provide the information that's needed at the moment (see progressive disclosure...).’

Umfangreicher Guide einer Psychologin zu guter Usability

L'avis d'un psychologue sur la création d'interfaces utilisateurs

As the social web has exploded in growth, so has the need for companies to respond and set guidelines. For large companies especially, these rules can be key

Social media policy overkill

Barbican Identity Guides

Flickr set of Barbican print identity guidlines

a set on Flickr

done by north studio uk

The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from “Web site” to “website” (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow.

The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from “Web site” to “website” (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow. Among the more interesting changes –- at least from a grammar and style standpoint –- are separating out “smart phone” as two words, hyphenating “e-reader,” and allowing fan, friend and follow to be used both as nouns and verbs. Beyond that, the AP has also defined a number of acronyms that are commonly used in texting and instant messaging. While most of them should be fairly well-known to regular web and mobile phone users (ROFL, BRB and G2G are among the definitions) one actually was new to me: POS.

Designing websites for Google TV

Users rarely begin their relationship with a company though its About page. More often than not, they learn about us based on what we do, the product or service that we offer. Why, then, should they want to learn more? About pages help users discover who lives behind the websites we create.

Currently there is an overabundance of web designers out there that are extremely talented and can create some really cool stuff. But in my twelve years of experience designing for print, on both the Printer and Agency side of things, I have encountered multiple cases where people fall short in the delivery of their creative when it comes to print work, sometimes causing unnecessary charges from the printer to fix their mistakes. Add to that the fact that I have been approached by more than a few of my friends and colleagues with a “deer-in-headlights” demeanor when it comes to creating or delivering stuff for print. For this, I have compiled a list of good practices and basic guidelines to ensure that your jobs are delivered efficiently. This is, of course, assuming that you are using InDesign as your final delivery vehicle (which I recommend) regardless of which application you used to design the piece.

"The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online"

I get asked almost daily for examples of employee policies regarding social media, blogging, online comments and social networking... Before you read any further, by doing so, you acknowledge and accept my recommendation that whatever your company puts into place must be reviewed and edited by your corporate legal counsel before implementation. The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online... The left side column is the name of the organization, and it is linked to their organizational or corporate home page. The right side column displays a link to the actual document of policy web page for you to either download or review. When people ask me "How do I get started with Social Media Marketing" my initial response is that they should FIRST develop their official employee policy for social media and web based publishing.

"The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online"

I get asked almost daily for examples of employee policies regarding social media, blogging, online comments and social networking... Before you read any further, by doing so, you acknowledge and accept my recommendation that whatever your company puts into place must be reviewed and edited by your corporate legal counsel before implementation. The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online... The left side column is the name of the organization, and it is linked to their organizational or corporate home page. The right side column displays a link to the actual document of policy web page for you to either download or review. When people ask me "How do I get started with Social Media Marketing" my initial response is that they should FIRST develop their official employee policy for social media and web based publishing.

"The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online"

I get asked almost daily for examples of employee policies regarding social media, blogging, online comments and social networking... Before you read any further, by doing so, you acknowledge and accept my recommendation that whatever your company puts into place must be reviewed and edited by your corporate legal counsel before implementation. The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online... The left side column is the name of the organization, and it is linked to their organizational or corporate home page. The right side column displays a link to the actual document of policy web page for you to either download or review. When people ask me "How do I get started with Social Media Marketing" my initial response is that they should FIRST develop their official employee policy for social media and web based publishing.

"The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online"

We are evolving a global experience language for the BBC’s digital services. The GEL guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating BBC websites (future iterations will also incorporate mobile and IPTV recommendations).

Guideline da BBC para construção de sites. Tem também alguns design patterns. style guide

Building a Global Experience Language for the BBC We are evolving a global experience language for the BBC’s digital services. The GEL guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating BBC websites (future iterations will also incorporate mobile and IPTV recommendations).

The GEL guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating BBC websites (future iterations will also incorporate mobile and IPTV recommendations).

Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites

Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites - Smashing Magazine - http://goo.gl/Ww8d

Includes links to or text from CNN, Intel, Best Buy, Walmart, Ford, Time Warner Cable The BBC and Easter Seals.

Good summary piece

Corporate Social Media Policies: The Good, the Mediocre, and the Ugly

http://tinyurl.com/25fr95t 'Corporate Social Media Policies: The Good, the Mediocre & the Ugly' - good discussion starter for #inf506