[Publib] blogging policy

[K.G. Schneider]

> Does anyone have examples of blogging policies that balance the need to
> look professional with the desire to encourage as much staff buy-in as
> possible? Any text you could send me would be much appreciated, but
> general descriptions of the guidelines could help as well.
> 
> Thanks a million!
> 
> --
> Ben Haines

Ben, this is a blog post that has a policy-with-other-stuff-in-it that you
might find helpful:

http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/12/30/draft-blog-guidelines/ 

Some of it is draft policy language, but some of it is simply good
information I picked up here and there that could be crocheted into a
best-practices document. I can attest from personal experience that a
version of this was quickly approved by the "higher-ups" in a library I
worked at a couple years ago. 

A small tidbit: when I wrote that blog post, I didn't know anyone at St.
Petersburg College - I just used that example because, well, *it worked.*
Today I was chatting in Facebook with one of their librarians, Chad Mairn,
who I had met in person at the state association conference! Small world
(filled with many great librarians). 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at freerangelibrarian.com