Blog Policy/Disclaimer
This is my disclaimer and blog policy. This is a personal journal, not affiliated with my work life identity. I request that anyone linking to or quoting from this journal on a site other than Dreamwidth, LJ, another LJ-clone or fan-owned journaling site please obtain my permission first.
Most of what's below here is old and applies to a job I haven't held since 2009. Sorry, I'll update this eventually.
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."
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.
Why ask for permission for quoting?
Occasionally, I write a post that gets circulated outside the Dreamwidth/LJ/IJ/JF etc community. Often in those cases, it's also taken out of context, usually by people who don't realize there even *is* a community with its own norms & expectations from which it's being lifted. One of my posts was quoted in a law journal article; I only found out about it and had the chance to be credited by my name instead of as "a pseudonymous blogger" because of this request. Despite this, my posts have been used, for example, as parts of course syllabi without my prior knowledge. That's fine, more the merrier, but I think it's simply courteous to let someone know when you're using their work rather than simply pointing to it. I *like it* when you spread my ideas around, I just want the people you spread it to to be able to track the thoughts back to the source, and to read them in their original context.
So, if you're linking, brief quoting in a blog post, etc., I'd love you to drop me a comment letting me know. If you're assigning my posts as reading to your class or quoting me in a professional piece, *please* ask first - I won't say no, but I'd really, really like to hear about it, be able to ensure you have the best links and can credit me by my professional name, etc.
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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.
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