Chapter 4
Blogging Best Practices
IN THIS CHAPTER
Avoiding trouble
Attributing sources
Finding out about copyrights and fair use
Understanding Creative Commons licenses
Creating comment and privacy policies
Writing legal language and disclaimers
Although you won’t find any formal rules and regulations related specifically to blogging, there are laws that extend to your blog’s content and widely accepted practices that you should be aware of and adhere to throughout your life as a blogger. Those guidelines can extend from common courtesy and avoiding doing things that can be perceived as spam all the way to acts punishable by law, such as plagiarism and failure to disclose sponsored content.
This chapter points you in the right direction by highlighting some of the biggest things you should avoid related to blogging as well as offering tips for how to do things the right way (or at ...
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