Guidance on using the Blog area of TrainingZone.co.uk

Our blog section is open to all members to use. If you want to post a blog, please read these guidelines and if you are still in doubt about what to post then please contact me, Becky Midgley your community manager, and I will guide you further.

 

A blog typically will be original content written about a particular topic from the blogger’s point of view. Blogs are commonly opinion pieces, but some bloggers decide to create a resource with links to external resources which add value to the opinion or ideas expressed in their blog. Blogs are not allowed to be promotional spaces for your own services or company.

 

Blogs are an opportunity for you to show your personality if you choose to. Most successful bloggers develop a following because their readers can relate to the blogger’s personality in some way. Of course this is not always the case, some bloggers just want to inform and educate and are not so worried about entertaining their readers.

 

If you blog for TrainingZone.co.uk please decide before hand what kind of blogger you want to be – this will help you deliver a stronger message and build a faithful following. 

 

We expect members to behave appropriately and sensitively at all times and never to post blogs which are knowingly offensive or will deliberately incite or provoke abusive comments. Be controversial if you want, but always do it with sensitivity to individuals – and always think before you post, put yourself in your readers’ shoes before you publish.

 

Bad language will not be tolerated at all! If you can’t make a point without swearing, then forget about it, back away.

 

Deliberately inflammatory comments about sex, age, race, religion or politics, or any other derogatory or personal attacks will not be tolerated either, and any attempts by members to deliberately provoke another member on these grounds will result in a temporary ban and the original thread being removed to allow TrainingZone.co.uk time to investigate the nature and context of the comment(s). 

 

Members who post information about their own company/business in blogs unnecessarily will be asked to desist. Any references to the bloggers own company/business must be strictly relevant and justified. You are permitted to promote yourself in your introduction however. Remember that you will generate credibility among your followers if you are genuine and not self-promotional. 

 

Repeat offenders of any of the above negative conduct will incur a temporary ban on their access to TrainingZone.co.uk. Members who are welcomed back after a temporary ban will be asked to post within the guidelines as laid out by TrainingZone.co.uk. Failure to do so will result in a permanent ban. 

 

We are willing to review permanent bans after a period of no less than six months for less serious offences, for example bad language or comments which the member feels were wrongly interpreted at the time of the original post. Each case for review will be assessed individually and no precedence will apply.

 

We want to encourage your input on TrainingZone.co.uk and as such we want to create a safe and happy place for you to blog and comment.

We promise to afford members freedom of expression within the reasonable confines of English law and decent and appropriate behaviour. 

 

Where possible, we promise to protect the anonymity of those members who prefer to remain anonymous on TrainingZone.co.uk. 

 

We promise to remove any offensive or inflammatory posts within 2 working days of a post being reported.

 

We promise to respond to member queries and requests reasonably and responsibly but ask that our members allow us reasonable time to deal with each request – some things may take us longer to investigate. 

 

If there is ever anything you are unhappy about on our sites then please contact me, Becky Midgley your community manager – I am always on hand to discuss anything in relation to our sites. But please allow me a reasonable time to respond to you, I will always endeavour to respond as quickly as possible and if I don’t, then there is a good reason. If I am not responding to your messages then call me on 0117 915 8657.

 

Happy blogging!