A team here at the Walker recently completed a set of guidelines for blog authors to follow when posting. We adopting these guidelines for Walker staff, guest bloggers/writers/critics are still on their own.
This is a loose framework that should inform what’s appropriate and what may not be for our institutional blog. Every new author we bring on board always asks “Well, what kind of stuff can I post and what should I watch out for”. There isn’t really an easy answer for that but this is a start. The guidelines are conveniently located in the front page of our blog admin screens but in the interest of editorial transparency I’ve also posted them to New Media’s public page.
Apparently “run post through spell check” was not on the guidlines. :)
Comment by eric — 3/10/2006 @ 9:20 am
I think that Walker’s blogs can now setup as state of the art, all of us have much to learn from this space.
I still try to organize a meeting at AAM/Boston where every of us can exchange information, opinions, ideas, comments, about museums blog.
I hope this idea will have success. Please who have interest to join this meeting (if it will be organize, in relation on how many people will join) please leave a comment on the related post on my blog http://www.mariobucolo.com/mb
Comment by Mario Bucolo — 3/21/2006 @ 4:26 pm
Thanks, Mario. I think the fact that Eric’s having these kinds of discussions publicly is a huge advancement. But I’m biased!
Comment by Paul Schmelzer — 3/22/2006 @ 10:19 am
Hi, I think your guidlines are great and I’m using them as a basis for evolving our own blogging guidelines: I hope that’s ok?
Comment by Richard Davis — 1/21/2008 @ 7:05 am
Not a problem Richard. Thanks for crediting us.
Comment by Justin Heideman — 1/22/2008 @ 1:47 pm