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Comments - and our editorial policy
Since we started Cool Blogs a few months ago we have been very open with our comments - and our policy on accepting comments.
In all that time we have killed several thousand 'spam' comments and I'm proud to say we have rejected just a couple of others.
We like to think that we are 'open' in many ways; we encourage debate; we encourage discussion; we like to get feedback on areas of Novell that otherwise you would never see.
As Cool Blogs grows and gets more readership it's time to start publicly sharing our ideals for this blog - and especially the comments.
- Our number one goal is open communication.Novell Cool Bloggers are encouraged to blog about any area of Novell or adjacent technology. The only caveat is that we need to safeguard our intellectual property and competitive edge - so release dates will be within a calendar quarter window, we will not discuss projects or plans that are not publicly announced, we will not discuss financial matters.
- We encourage our readers and subscribers to join in. Comment. Make suggestions. Give feedback. Again - our aim is to make this a broadly acceptable community that is of interest to many people. Comments may be edited or rejected to remove offensive or profane commentary. Comments may also be removed if they are not generally 'constructive' and in keeping with the subject of the post.
- We try to follow sensible guidelines - 'spam', 'trolling', 'astroturfing' and 'flaming' are generally not acceptable and will lead to comments being edited or redacted.
Sorry this sounds like a harsh approach - we've been running with these guides for months now - and we've rejected less than 0.5% of non-Spam comments. For those that comment - please continue!
I'm interested in your feedback. Please feel free to comment directly on this post and our policy. What else would you like to see? What would you take out of that policy?
Written at: Draper, UT
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Hey folks... Your doing
Submitted by FlingGuy (not verified) on 21 July 2006 - 10:28pm.
Hey folks...
Your doing fine ny me. I look at it this way, as long as you are willing to engage, to communicate, your customers and espicals people like me, who have to *daily* convince people that Novell is *THE* premire solution to stay with, then I will keep reading and keeping throwing it back at you where I tink its appropriate.
Too bad we haven;t heard back from that one blogger about some of the more inner workings of GW.
- Bill
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Martin, Just one possibly
Submitted by Tony Redfearn (not verified) on 22 July 2006 - 5:12am.
Martin,
Just one possibly important comment. Whilst you have been championing this within Novell, sometimes the content from the other bloggers have been sparse. You have over twice the number of posts of the nearest colleague.
This isnt a criticism, it's human nature to start out at full throttle then time pressures etc. take their toll.
Your blogs have been extremely valuable to the ZEN customers. That would be something desireable to replicate across the product set.
Perhaps as a sugesstion the rules require a minimum comittment from the bloggers?
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Let me give a first comment
Submitted by Ron van Herk (not verified) on 22 July 2006 - 6:31am.
Let me give a first comment on this one, Martin may fill the gaps.
The people that blog try to have two posts each month, more is OK, less ... isn't :-). Martin is far out on the amount of posts and there is a group that is just above the two posts per month, some are a bit behind, just be aware that a few only started to blog recently while others started 5 months ago. You might have seen that a few people that originally where on the list have disappeared, so yes, we are being tracked and the people that do not post frequent enough will drop from the list and others might step in.
One thing I'm wondering, some posts are very detailed and focused on products while sometimes a post are just for fun and might mention the amount of power adapters Martin takes with him on the plain. Do you like the current mix of fun and technical posts?
FYI: this is just a quick response from an Internet café somewhere in Austria, I'm having a very nice vacation at the moment, so no posts from me until August ;-)
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Hey Tony As Ron points out
Submitted by Martin Buckley (not verified) on 22 July 2006 - 7:54am.
Hey Tony
As Ron points out - there is an expected minimum level of committment; some blog often, some less often.
The expectation is that Cool Bloggers blog at least twice per month. Below this and we will 'find others who will post'. You notice we just added Martin Irwin to the team - and already he's posted five times!
I blog 'a lot' - and I try and space out my posts. I'm also blogging on my own blogs.
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Thanks Ron. Of course the
Submitted by Tony Redfearn (not verified) on 22 July 2006 - 8:24am.
Thanks Ron. Of course the tech blogs are helpful but blogging is not just about that.
This is a valuable excercise because it puts a human face on the people. Novell has to most of its followers been less of a 'corporate'than other companies. Since the early days people have felt part of whats going on, a cliche but part of the 'family'. I am not sure whether this has been a corporate aim over the years or just a by product of the nature of your staff (more likely...) but these blogs certainly reinforce that feeling and as such are a valuable contribution to Novells relationship with its customer base.
I guess what I am saying here is the value is more than just technical.
Keep it up.
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[...] We’ve learned a lot
Submitted by NOVELL: Cool Blogs » Blog Archive » Cool Blogs - almost nine (not verified) on 22 November 2006 - 9:09am.
[...] We’ve learned a lot about working with you, our readers. We’ve added features to this site based on feedback, and we have also been pretty open about our editorial and comment policies. [...]
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This is a deliberately long,
Submitted by Martin Buckley (not verified) on 10 December 2006 - 5:38pm.
This is a deliberately long, meaningless comment - posted to test long comments.
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