Community Policies
This is a website for the SPAN community. In order for it to
maintain it's value to the community we have a number of rules that
must be followed for you to be a member.
At the core of these policies is the idea that SPAN is a place for listening and learning as much is as it is a place for sharing. To that end, please pay special attention to our Promotion Guidelines as everyone here has something to share and we would like for you to be able to successfully share your work without disillusioning those that wish to have a conversation.
Simply put,
Do:
• Share your work
• Make it relevant
• Get people interested in your book intellectually, not through hype.
• Use your member page/blog for promotional purposes.
• Use attribution when quoting another’s work.
• Use a clear concise introductory sentence
• Show respect in your post
• Speak within your boundary of knowledge
• Use friendly words
• Share constructive criticism, when it seems helpful
• Share advice and beta
• Reread your post or entry to double check for quality spelling and grammar
Don't:
• Post pornography or other illicit material
• Use obscene, derogatory, or sexual language
• Violate copyright law
• Speak outside of your expertise
Promotion Guidelines
Please consider these promotional guidelines when posting content, especially any that features links off the site. We have written these guidelines as way to guide and preserve this community for our members, and we reserve the right to remove any promotional content for any reason if we feel it does not help our community or our members.
• Promotional copy, links to your website, or news releases can go on your member page, on your blog, or in the Member Showcase discussion forum
• Promote yourself by being of service to your fellow community members.
• Promoting when your service is free AND industry related is OK.
• Promoting with the intention of receiving constructive criticism on marketing, package, or Web site is OK.
• If you want to share a link, include information describing why it is relevant within the context of these guidelines.
•If a service is requested that you can provide, you must still stay within the intent of these Promotional Guidelines when soliciting a response.
• Get rich quick schemes are not allowed at all.
• Obvious and blatant SPAMMING will result in your account being banned. (If you are an Independent Publisher, Author, or Sincere Member of SPANnet we are much less likely to ban your account.)
At the core of these policies is the idea that SPAN is a place for listening and learning as much is as it is a place for sharing. To that end, please pay special attention to our Promotion Guidelines as everyone here has something to share and we would like for you to be able to successfully share your work without disillusioning those that wish to have a conversation.
Simply put,
Do:
• Share your work
• Make it relevant
• Get people interested in your book intellectually, not through hype.
• Use your member page/blog for promotional purposes.
• Use attribution when quoting another’s work.
• Use a clear concise introductory sentence
• Show respect in your post
• Speak within your boundary of knowledge
• Use friendly words
• Share constructive criticism, when it seems helpful
• Share advice and beta
• Reread your post or entry to double check for quality spelling and grammar
Don't:
• Post pornography or other illicit material
• Use obscene, derogatory, or sexual language
• Violate copyright law
• Speak outside of your expertise
Promotion Guidelines
Please consider these promotional guidelines when posting content, especially any that features links off the site. We have written these guidelines as way to guide and preserve this community for our members, and we reserve the right to remove any promotional content for any reason if we feel it does not help our community or our members.
• Promotional copy, links to your website, or news releases can go on your member page, on your blog, or in the Member Showcase discussion forum
• Promote yourself by being of service to your fellow community members.
• Promoting when your service is free AND industry related is OK.
• Promoting with the intention of receiving constructive criticism on marketing, package, or Web site is OK.
• If you want to share a link, include information describing why it is relevant within the context of these guidelines.
•If a service is requested that you can provide, you must still stay within the intent of these Promotional Guidelines when soliciting a response.
• Get rich quick schemes are not allowed at all.
• Obvious and blatant SPAMMING will result in your account being banned. (If you are an Independent Publisher, Author, or Sincere Member of SPANnet we are much less likely to ban your account.)
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