Hi all, (cross posted from blog)
Please consider this a draft and all feedback welcome – below are some general community guidelines specific to StoryLabs private network and before that some simple tips on how to contribute.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
Outside of the formal submission process into the mentor network here are ways you can communicate ideas or network
BLOG one-to-many – as an automatic contributor. Click on ‘My Blogs’ on top mini menu and choose ‘StoryLabs Network / Dashboard’. Here simply go to ‘Posts / Add New’ and share with us something of substance. Ideas, project or industry opinion, business issues etc: Mentors particularly will be keeping an eye out for great ideas and we may suggest submitting them! Also we will always be on the lookout for potential mentors to join the official list based on the expertise level here!
UPDATE – Go to ‘My Account / Activity / Personal ‘ on the top menu. This brings you to your profile and simply give us quick updates in the ‘What’s New’ box half way down the page
FORUM – If you want more 2 way, threaded discussion simply click on the ‘FORUMS’ tab below the header and then click on ‘New Topic’ to start a discussion. Suggest this is good for more detailed issues or planning ideas.
DIRECT – To communicate with just one specific member privately just click ‘MEMBERS’ tab below the header, find and click on the member and then on ‘SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE’ button below their name. Only you and they will see this. You can keep track of all these messages in top bar ‘My Account / Messages / Inbox’
TWITTER AND FACEBOOK – You can link Twitter and Facebook to your status updates here by going to top bar ‘My Account / Settings / TWEETSTREAM or FACESTREAM’ here you can authorise the 2way flow…If you want your tweets to appear in the sidebar list just send admin a request with your twitter name
COMMUNITY GUIDELINES & CONFIDENTIALITY
(note: All members as part of remaining registered to this network agree to the below)
HELLO – Be friendly to each other, constructively criticise and openly discuss that which you are responsible for – that’s it really but here are some more to nut out some of the details – all comments welcome
THE LARGER NETWORK – The full network community which contains mentors, participants and other StoryLabs affiliated members will eventually contains hundreds of members. Please welcome new members, help them contribute, comment on others contributions, like their contributions and help develop thinking around new transmedia storytelling in this many-to-many environment
CONFIDENTIALITY – To encourage open sharing everyone who is registered on this network is AGREED to confidentiality. That is any specifics of projects that the ‘contributor’ labels AS CONFIDENTIAL remains within this community and cannot be discussed outside. If you are found to break this confidentiality in any way you will immediately be removed and if required action MAY be taken by the contributor ONLY and not StoryLabs.
LANGUAGE – Everyone is equally encouraged to contribute to the main ‘private’ blog, forums & chat areas but remember we live by our words online so across the whole site please refrain from obscene, bigoted, or sexually explicit language.
REMOVAL – We (admins) reserve the right to remove postings that contain obscene, bigoted, insulting, abusive, or hateful content, and suspend or terminate the guest accounts of anyone who posts such content.
ADVERTISING – No direct adverts for events, products or projects beyond those which you are keeping with the StoryLabs mission, where you are specifically keen on getting opinions on from other members – remember we do encourage you sharing project ideas within this network on the condition your IP is protected elsewhere AND that anyone who joins this forum is aware of the basic confidentiality agreement detailed here
COPYRIGHT – You must have copyright or permission to post any material – written word, documents, scripts etc:
PASSWORDS – Please do not share login passwords with anyone within or without the forum – breaking this rule also breaks the confidentiality rule and will result in termination
SPAM – Having good manners online means that you don’t post the same note more than once. The online word for posting many times on one topic is “spamming.” We don’t allow that.
RESPONSIBILITY – You take responsibility for postings under your identification and use the information provided on this site, including on message boards, chat, and e-mail, at your own risk. We take no responsibility for the content or opinions posted on message boards, chat, and e-mail.
REMINDER – We reserve the right to remove any postings if we feel they breach any of these guidelines
SPILL THE BEANS – If you see any chat, or message board post that you feel violates any of the above house rules, please notify the admins immediately
COPY PASTE DISTRIBUTE – Do NOT copy and paste any part of another’s posting or any admin posts such as this one – on this network to an external site, a private external email to a non-member or copy any document WITHOUT prior permission of the contributor
HAVE FUN – Use good judgment, and have a great time.
If you feel you cannot adhere to any of the above please send a note to the admin before deleting your account ALTERNATIVELY if it is something that we can alter to make you feel happier please DONT delete your account and send a note or comment below!
SUBMISSIONS – a separate Terms list will be set up for formal submissions into the labs and will be disclosed shortly
PROCESS – Also a more detailed structure of how mentoring and submissions work will be posted shortly. As it says above neither of these can be posted outside the network or shared with other non-members or organisations. This process & documentation has IP attached and is © StoryLabs
