Blog Use and Guidelines

Acceptable Use

Expert Voices is an NSDL-sponsored blogging tool for use within NSDL and for outreach beyond NSDL. Lively opinion and commentary are welcome in blog posts. Bloggers are strongly encouraged to check facts, cite sources, present balanced views, acknowledge and correct errors, and check spelling and grammar before making a post live.

Comments

Comments are open to all but may be moderated by the blog editors or NSDL staff. Commentary, opinion, and reaction to posts are welcome. Comments should be relevant to the specific post they are attached to. Spam, flaming, personal attacks, and off-topic comments are not permitted. The blog editors will establish procedures for managing and moderating comments, and reserves the right not to post any comment.

Content License

When you register for ExpertVoices, you are agreeing to comply with the Creative Commons license (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5). This means that other people are free to to copy, distribute, and display your contribution. They are also free to use it in derivative work. But in any case, they must attribute the use of your writing it to you and they must distribute their work under an identical license to this one, unless they get permission from you to deviate from this practice.

Guidelines

  • Add something new.
  • Stay on topic.
  • Be truthful.
  • Be professional.
  • Be clean.
  • Be careful

* Much of this content was taken from a NSDL Annual Meeting 2005 presentation by Blythe Bennet