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| • | TechTalk |
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| • | How to Update Your Data |
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| • | How to Search Archives |
| • | Guidelines |
Guidelines for Participating in NACE's Communities
NACE welcomes discussion and dialog among members, believing that the goal of the NACE communities is the sharing of knowledge and information. Members are encouraged to participate in online discussions of issues and trends in order to further the best practices of all members.
The following guidelines cover basic etiquette and participation in the NACE communities. We have included information on formatting e-mail to the communities for maximum value. There are also prohibitions on using the communities as a way to advertise or promote products or services.
Anyone who fails to comply with these guidelines will be removed from the Community. Messages that appear to violate these guidelines in letter or spirit will be deleted when possible.
Basic Online Etiquette
- Discussion within each of the NACE Communities is polite and professional. Common courtesy is expected. Please be patient: Some members have more experience with discussion group protocol than others—we were all new at some time.
- While debate is welcome, flames—personal attacks—are not. You may not send harassing, libelous, defamatory, or obscene materials. Do not use ethnic slurs, racial epithets, or anything else that may be construed as disparagement or harassment of others. Curse words—or abbreviations of curse words—are prohibited.
- Keep your messages short. State your opinion or question simply. Remember that e-mail is a cold medium: No one can see you smile, laugh, frown, or scowl. Be cautious with humor or cynicism—messages can be read "the wrong way."
- Do not rely on your messages being confidential or private, even if a message is sent privately, to one person only. Do not send anything via the Internet that you would not be willing to say face-to-face to a co-worker or your employer.
Job Opportunities and Other Advertising
- All advertising and commercial solicitation is strictly prohibited.
Advertising includes:
- job opportunities, (please use Jobwire to advertise opportunities in your office),
- career and job fairs,
- books,
- workshops,
- conferences,
- web-based services,
- e-mail or online polls and/or focus groups, or
- other career/recruitment resources.
- If you wish to get opinions or recommendations of a commercial product, please ask that all e-mail be directed to your e-mail box and not to the discussion group. Please share a summary of that information with colleagues by private e-mail only. Discussions of specific vendors or commercial products may not go through a Community.
- Do not use a Community to address others regarding commercial, religious, or political causes.
- Do not send promotional materials to the community. Self-promotion and referrals are not allowed in any form at any time.
Participation
- Do not post messages for other people.
- Discussion of most career services topics online is encouraged—even if you plan to post a summary to the community afterward. The give-and-take of a discussion is a lot like brainstorming—you need the back-and-forth between participants to fully explore a subject. If you want to respond to a comment or question, but don't feel your comments are relevant to the whole group, please respond privately to the e-mail. If you have any question about the appropriateness of your comments for the group, feel free to contact the list administrator for guidance.
- If you post a question of interest to your colleagues, please collect the answers and send a summary of responses to the list. Your summary should include one copy of your original question and excerpts of the responses you receive. Include the e-mail addresses of the people who answer your question.
- If information comes from a book, a newsletter, a magazine, a web site, a news group, another e-mail discussion group, or any other publication, the material may be copyrighted. Any copying and/or downloading of copyrighted material to a NACE Community must be with express written permission of the person or organization that owns the copyright. This includes copying of NACE materials. If you have any questions, contact Claudia Allen, NACE permissions editor.
- Community members should indicate in their discussions whether they want to hear from vendors or suppliers. Vendors should reply to postings only to forward the discussion or to add information or ideas.
Formatting Your Messages
- When posting a message to a community, please include your name, organization, and an e-mail address at the end of your message. You may include your title, a telephone number, and a fax number. Keep your signature short—no more than five lines.
- Include a subject in the "subject line" of your message. This will help other Community members choose among the messages to read and respond to, and will make your questions/answers/discussion easier to find in the archives. For example, if you are discussing behavioral interviewing, use the words "behavioral interviewing" in the subject line. If you are offering a summary of information in answer to a particular question, use "summary of [topic]" to give community members an idea of what they will read when they open your message.
- Do not copy entire previous messages into your message. If you are quoting another person or responding to a question or comment, delete whatever isn't directly relevant to your message.
- Please post messages in Plain Text format. HTML and Rich Text formatting cannot be read by all e-mail software and may display with unreadable random characters.
- No attachments are allowed. This includes attached text documents and the "business cards" that some e-mail software creates.
Copyright Information
While you own the copyright to your individual messages and materials that you place on a Community discussion group, NACE compiles the messages and materials on its server and owns the compilation of messages and materials. By subscribing to a Community, you are giving consent for NACE to use your messages in the compilation in any manner that NACE sees fit. NACE archives the compilation of messages and materials and makes them available to NACE members, NACE staff, and other, selected persons. The archives remain on NACEWeb. By subscribing to a NACE Community, you are also consenting to this specific use of your messages on that Community list and in the archives.
