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Blog Challenge 21: A Policy Review

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This post is part of my ongoing series based upon the eBook 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. To read all of my other posts on the subject, check out the 31DBBB category. For more on the book itself, visit ProBlogger.

Yes, when I read “policy review,” my eyes immediately glazed over. But upon thinking about it, I realized that this was something I really should do.  So I decided to make it fun.

Today’s reading involves reviewing your existing blog guidelines or practices — or, if you don’t yet have any, to create them.

I’ve had a “Terms of Service” page for quite some time. It was copied from a source that listed examples of reasonable terms of service pages for bloggers to use. But it was fairly heavy in legalese and wasn’t exactly all that reader-friendly.

There were no “parties of the first parts” mentioned, but it was only about a notch or two below that level of contract talk. So I decided to simplify things a bit. My new page, which is now called Rules rather than Terms of Service.

I chopped an incredibly long page — hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time — to two sections:  five basic “rules” followed by my 10 Commandments of Commenting.

Give it a read and let me know what you think!