Admin: Post Formats & Rules

If you're reading this you must now be fully aware that I decided to set the blog up so that we could get communicating and posting as quickly as possible.

Apart from welcoming you to the blog, I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about how we’re going to manage the use of the blog, so that we don’t fill it with useless junk or make it unmanageable. If we set a few ground rules now, we can ensure that Russell will be able to view our blog and see what we’re doing easily, thus enhancing our chances of getting a good team grade.

The following are suggestions; if you feel that you would like to add or change anything I’m about to say, please feel free to comment on this post.

1. I believe that all main posts (the ones viewable from the main page) ought to be written in continuous pros (where appropriate) and should avoid too much slang. Posts should be written in the style of an essay or other formal piece of literature.
2. To help categorise the information we post I think we should develop some sort of format. You may have noticed that at the start of the title of this post (and the first post) I put the phrase ‘Admin:’ By doing this, Russell and ourselves can easily see which posts are just about team issues and general project information. I strongly suggest everyone adopts this approach so that it makes finding important team decisions (not related to the project itself) easy. Other such categories need to be decided upon based on the types of information we will need to post e.g. ‘Project Process:’ for information relating to the project process, ‘Case:’ for writing posts that are a basic case study on a useful piece of technology or an important issue, which might be constructive for the overall project. But these need to be discussed.
3. Use comments to speak less formally about the post and for all general discussions. Make good use of commenting; don’t waste space posting thoughts in a totally different post. New posts can be created when discussions significantly change the original post, otherwise the original post should be edited appropriately.
4. We should try to avoid writing large posts; 500 words should be sufficient for most things, although there are always exceptions to the rule.

What do you think?