written by Achintya Gupta
A simple set of guidelines for our authors, contributors and our community to help us produce quality content
Being a company that evangelizes social technologies, we at Kuliza try to make as much of our business social, as possible. In fact almost all of our marketing and most of our recruitment and cultural branding is through social web. And since we see ourselves increasingly becoming social over the coming months, we thought it would be a good idea to create social media guidelines for our authors, contributors and our community, so that we can continue providing quality content.
Social Media guidelines for people at Kuliza
- Purpose of our blogs: The purpose of ZaGarage blog is to showcase Kuliza research and expertise in social technologies. The idea is to create a valuable collection of interesting research, learnings and how –tos for social technologies with the intention that the readers end up learning something new about this space. The purpose of ZaLife blog is to showcase Kuliza culture, people and interesting things that happen inside Kuliza
- The blog posts reflect the opinion of the authors, not necessarily the opinions of Kuliza. The community managers / moderators should take the author’s permission in case changes have been made by them in an author’s post
- The authors should try to give as authentic and honest information as possible. Adequate credits and references should be given in case the author has adopted ideas.
- We believe in open research and encourage authors to share their everyday research and findings. However we will not encourage authors to disclose client or competitor information, company’s financial information or take credit of somebody else’s IP. Also the authors should respect Kuliza’s confidential property.
- The authors should be respectful to other employees, clients, competitors, partners and the community.
- We prefer giving full independence and flexibility to authors in expressing their research and opinions. However, people at Kuliza should understand if the company asks them to not blog / tweet about an issue except in the manner proposed by the company.
Social Media guidelines for the Kuliza community
- We encourage healthy conversations, arguments and criticism on our website. However we do not promote unhealthy and unreasonable comments and language, queries and discussions about clients, competitors and projects. In case we see such conversations building up, we are left with no choice but moderate them.
- We do not encourage any form of spamming
Special thanks to Diarmaid Byrne, Praveen Kumar and Vijay Rayapati for their help and feedback in creating this guideline. Also if you happen to be thinking of creating guidelines for your own company, your can read this mashable article for tips. I would also recommend going through Altimeter Wiki and Intel’s social media policy as benchmarks.
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