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Policy:
Bethel University provides the ability to create both personal and
institutional blog. Note Bethel is under no obligation to provide a
personal blog to
anyone. Personal blogs will be provided to responsible community
members.
Blog maintainers need to recognize that:
- A blog is a revocable privilege.
- Using the Bethel
network means to host blogs means that the blog represents Bethel just as much as it
does the individual. Content of the blog must comply with Bethel's Computing Acceptable Use Policy.
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Network Ethics, Etiquette, and Legality
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All individuals using Bethel's computing equipment and connections must
abide by Bethel's policies regarding ethical and legal use of
resources. This policy is presented in the document Computing Acceptable Use Policy.
- Authors
of HTML documents are responsible for what they allow others to access
on their pages or through a direct link from one of their pages.
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Blog Content
- In general blogs represent both the individual and Bethel.
Material needs to conform to the mission of the institution as well as
the interests of the individual.
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Blog Content Guidelines
- Direct links to illegal, socially harmful, or pornographic material are not permitted.
- Text,
images, or sounds which violate Bethel Lifestyle expectations or which
are illegal according to local, state, national, or international laws are not permitted.
- You
may not create pages that contain material copyrighted by someone other
than yourself unless permission has been obtained from the copyright
holder. The original author and copyright holder should be clearly and
fully acknowledged if permission is given. You should even be cautious
about creating links to pages that contain unapproved copyrighted
material.
- You may not use Bethel's resources for commercial gain.
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Lifetime of a Blog
Group/Department/Class Blogs
Group/Department/Class blogs will be availalbe for the
lifetime of the group, department, or class. If a semester closes and
the class will exist again within two academic years then the blog for
that class will not expire unless requested.
- Department Blogs will be available until
the Department Chair for the department, the blog maintainer, or the
Office of the Provost submits a request for the blog to expire.
- Class
Blogs will be available until the blog maintainer, class professor, or
the Office of the Provost requests for the blog to expire.
- Group
Blogs will be available until the group no longer exists or the blog
maintainer for the group requests that the blog expire.
If a blog maintainer will be transferring control of the
blog to a different individual then the blog maintainer must submit a
request, to ITS, to transfer blog ownership.
Personal Blogs
Personal Blogs will expire when the blog maintainer's
Bethel Community Account expires or the blog maintainer requests that
the blog expire.
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