Blogging policy

Welcome to PR Voice. If you’re thinking of joining in the conversation, take a look at our blogging guidelines below.

New to blogging?

A blog is literally a web log – an online record or log of someone’s thoughts and opinions updated frequently. The majority of blogs allow visitors to join in by adding their own responses (or comments) to posts by the author (blogger).

If you want to respond to a post, click on the link underneath the entry. This will bring up a page where you can submit your comment.

Commenting on PR Voice

PR Voice is available for all visitors to add their comments to posts. Please keep these comments relevant to the entry in question, and bear in mind that very long comments may put off fellow users! 

It is our policy to review all comments before publishing, partly to reduce the possibility of spam comments and partly to ensure comments are in line with our best practice requirements set out below.

This policy doesn’t mean that we will be blocking comments simply because they disagree or are critical of CIPR policies or activities, or talk about a radical or unpopular idea. PR Voice is an open forum and we hope we will be able to publish as many of your comments as possible.

We will update comments as often as we can during our operating hours - 9.30am-5.30pm Monday to Friday.

If we think your comment breaks one of the requirements below, we’ll send you an email to let you know why it’s not being published.

Best practice requirements

So what do we consider to be best practice? We will not publish comments that: 

• Break the law or encourage others to do so. This includes respecting copyright and fair use laws. If you are talking about somebody else’s work, reference this or the person, and where possible include a link.
• Contain abusive or inappropriate language or statements. This includes remarks that are racist, homophobic and sexist as well as those that contain obscenities or are sexually explicit.
• Do not show proper consideration for others’ privacy or are considered likely to offend or provoke others – i.e. don’t pick fights or goad others into inflammatory debates.
• Are spam – i.e. repeatedly posting the same comment or comments that are simply advertising/promoting a service or product.

In addition, links within your comments should be relevant to the post. Comments containing links to websites falling into the categories above will not be published.

We reserve the right to edit, move or delete any comment at any time, for any reason – but hope in practice that this won’t be necessary.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback. If you have a comment or wish to report an inappropriate comment, please email us at blog@cipr.co.uk.

The disclaimers…

PR Voice is authored by Lionel Zetter FCIPR in his capacity as President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). Posts written during 2006 were authored by Tony Bradley, CIPR President for 2006.

Lionel and Tony’s comments are their own and don’t necessarily represent the CIPR’s positions, strategies or opinions.

Lionel, Tony and the CIPR are not responsible for the content on websites linked to from this blog.