Blog Policy/Disclaimer
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This is my disclaimer and blog policy. This is a personal Livejournal, not affiliated with my work life identity. This Livejournal's audience is other Livejournal users. I request that anyone linking to or quoting from this Livejournal on a site other than LJ, an LJ-clone, or a fan-owned journaling site please obtain my permission first.
What is this journal for? What does it mean that you talk about work sometimes?
I write this Livejournal to keep in touch with my friends and with several broader communities. It is a personal journal. If you know me professionally, I am not speaking on behalf of my work-world self here, not ever. Any discussion of things related to work, to work events I might publicize here, or to themes that also relate to my professional life, is incidental and something I would be doing regardless of my professional circumstances: I am both an employee and a layman/volunteer on these issues, as it were, and in this journal, I am the layman.
To reiterate: I never ever speak on official behalf of my employer on this journal, though I will from time to time discuss the fact that I am an employee and discuss things that we are working on that are relevant to my readers here."
I care about the issues involved in my work; it is one of the reasons I work where I do. These issues impact much of my personal life, and, more importantly for this journal, frequently impact on the concerns of my friends and fellow community members who read this journal. That's why I talk about work here sometimes.
Bottomline, and I'd rather say it too much than too little: This is not a work blog, and please don't take it as one, in any way. It's a me blog - more accurately journal - that includes the work part of me in with the rest.
Why then is this a public journal?
I got tired of having a friends-only journal. I had a friends-only primary journal once. I had to friend back everyone who I wanted to let read any post, or the journal as a whole. That meant that I always had to post anything actually meant not to be public under a custom friends filter. It meant that I had to read my ever-larger friends list on custom filters. And all of that meant that I was constantly maintaining my filters. What a pain.
Plus, I like openness and transparency. I missed the days when I used to meet someone random because they were reading their friendsfriends list. Or the days when someone could find a comment I left on another person's journal intriguing, stop over to my journal, and get to know me before asking to be friended. I just like how this works, socially. I don't want to feel forced to friends-lock again.
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My pledge to my readers & friends about promoting stuff here
I pledge that, when/if ever I promote a product or service or event on this journal, I will follow these self-made rules:
1. Either I'm not compensated in any way, or if I am compensated, I tell you about it up-front and link to this disclaimer.
2. I only ever promote something that I would be enthusiastically promoting anyway, regardless of compensation, because I think it's something my friends would want to know about.
3. Anything that feels like promoting anything here will be pretty damn rare, because that's not what this journal is here for.
This is my disclaimer and blog policy. This is a personal Livejournal, not affiliated with my work life identity. This Livejournal's audience is other Livejournal users. I request that anyone linking to or quoting from this Livejournal on a site other than LJ, an LJ-clone, or a fan-owned journaling site please obtain my permission first.
What is this journal for? What does it mean that you talk about work sometimes?
I write this Livejournal to keep in touch with my friends and with several broader communities. It is a personal journal. If you know me professionally, I am not speaking on behalf of my work-world self here, not ever. Any discussion of things related to work, to work events I might publicize here, or to themes that also relate to my professional life, is incidental and something I would be doing regardless of my professional circumstances: I am both an employee and a layman/volunteer on these issues, as it were, and in this journal, I am the layman.
To reiterate: I never ever speak on official behalf of my employer on this journal, though I will from time to time discuss the fact that I am an employee and discuss things that we are working on that are relevant to my readers here."
I care about the issues involved in my work; it is one of the reasons I work where I do. These issues impact much of my personal life, and, more importantly for this journal, frequently impact on the concerns of my friends and fellow community members who read this journal. That's why I talk about work here sometimes.
Bottomline, and I'd rather say it too much than too little: This is not a work blog, and please don't take it as one, in any way. It's a me blog - more accurately journal - that includes the work part of me in with the rest.
Why then is this a public journal?
I got tired of having a friends-only journal. I had a friends-only primary journal once. I had to friend back everyone who I wanted to let read any post, or the journal as a whole. That meant that I always had to post anything actually meant not to be public under a custom friends filter. It meant that I had to read my ever-larger friends list on custom filters. And all of that meant that I was constantly maintaining my filters. What a pain.
Plus, I like openness and transparency. I missed the days when I used to meet someone random because they were reading their friendsfriends list. Or the days when someone could find a comment I left on another person's journal intriguing, stop over to my journal, and get to know me before asking to be friended. I just like how this works, socially. I don't want to feel forced to friends-lock again.
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My pledge to my readers & friends about promoting stuff here
I pledge that, when/if ever I promote a product or service or event on this journal, I will follow these self-made rules:
1. Either I'm not compensated in any way, or if I am compensated, I tell you about it up-front and link to this disclaimer.
2. I only ever promote something that I would be enthusiastically promoting anyway, regardless of compensation, because I think it's something my friends would want to know about.
3. Anything that feels like promoting anything here will be pretty damn rare, because that's not what this journal is here for.