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I will shortly be switching email notification providers from Feedburner to Feedblitz. The advantage of this is that, instead of receiving an email every few days, you will receive a weekly email digest of the latest posts on ZenGuide. This will minimise the number of emails coming into your Inbox while keeping you regularly updated with news and top tips on social media issues.

You don’t have to do anything to continue receiving weekly updates from ZenGuide. You will get an email from me soon saying “ZenGuide is changing newsletter delivery services” - this will have some helpful information about the new service. After that, the new service will deliver the weekly email to you every Thursday.

If you have any queries at all, please get in touch with me via the Contact link.

Invitation Only

1. Guest blogging is by invitation only. I will usually invite specific guests to blog but occasionally, there will be an open invitation to readers to submit their stories/ posts.

Open Invitation Guest Blogging

2. Posts can be up to a maximimum of 1000 words and must be relevant to the topic that the open invitation relates to. Submissions should be contained in an email in simple formatting so I can copy and paste it into the blog. Regarding style and content:

# Read the posts already on the blog to get a sense of the tone and feel of ZenGuide

# Generally, the focus is on blogging, social media and technology, focusing on their practical uses and advantages for businesses, in particular relating to business communications, marketing and PR.

3. Please also provide your full name, email address and any website, together with a description of who and where you are eg. Lee Tan, 36, a computer programmer in Utrecht, Netherlands. The description can be like the “About the Author” paragraph in a book - this is so that Fusion View readers can get a sense of who you are and your context and and then you need not explain who you are in the actual post.

In the spirit of community blogging, your full name and description will be added to your post so that my readers can appreciate your post in your personal context.

Anonymous submissions will be automatically ignored.

4. I will consider submissions and decide if an entry is suitable for posting on ZenGuide. This is my personal blog and my decision is final. I may edit the post and/ or I may ask you to edit or make amendments to it for clarity and/ or relevance. I will let you know by email if your submission will be posted or not. This blog is run by me alone so please bear with me.

5. I cannot make payment for Guest Blogger posts. I hope that you will submit your post in a community spirit and enjoy the benefit of offering your writing/ story to the ZenGuide global readership. For this reason, copyright remains with the author of the post.

6. In return, I would ask is that you link to ZenGuide (if you have a website) or refer potential readers to ZenGuide to help me build a community around this blog. The link is http://www.zenguide.co.uk

Guest Blogger Views

5. The views expressed by guest bloggers are entirely their own and do not necesssarily represent my views.

How to submit your story

You can email your story by using the “Email me” link in the sidebar.

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GENERAL

What is a Blog?

A blog is short for “weblog”, which is an online journal. (As in Star Trek, when William Shatner says “Captain’s Log, star date XXXX….”). However, the ZenGuide blog is really more like an online magazine.

How often will you be updating this blog/ online magazine?

I aim update the ZenGuide blog with articles at least twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays by 7am GMT and from time to time, there will be additional articles during the rest of the week

SUBSCRIPTION POLICY

What is your privacy policy if I subscribe to this blog?

By subscribing, you will only be asked for your email address and no other personal details. We will not use your email address for any other purpose than notifying you of blog updates nor will we sell the subscription list.

What delivery options are available if I subscribe to this blog?

When you subscribe via Feedblitz, you can choose to be notified by email, Skype, AOL Instant Messenger or Twitter. Email notifications offer an audio link so you can listen to an audio version of the blog.

You can also subscribe via Talkr to receive an audio feed version.

Rasasa and Zaptext gives you the option to receive updates via SMS, Instant Message and Email.

How often will I receive notifications of blog updates from you?

By the end of September 2007, notifications to subscribers will be streamlined to go out once a week on a Thursday using Feedblitz. Current email subscribers need not do anything - you will receive an email notifying you that the email delivery system will be changing, with some useful information about the new service and afterwards, the new weekly delivery will start.

If you subscribe via the other applications other than Feedblitz (see above), you will receive notifications whenever the blog is updated.

SITE POLICIES

What is your relationship with the third party sites linked to this site?

I do not have any control over third party sites to which this blog is linked, including Feedburner (which maintains the email notification service). If you have any concerns or complaints about any third party sites, please see their terms & conditions and policies on their sites and contact them direct.

What is your policy on visitor comments?

All visitors to the blog can submit comments relating to any post, provided the comments are appropriate and relevant . I would encourage you to sign your posts with at least a first name - anonymous posts encourage incivility and irresponsible commenting.

When commenting, please be civil and respect the views and feelings of all participants on this site. I reserve the right not to publish comments that I consider rude, offensive, objectionable, irrelevant or unsuitable. I also reserve the right - without explanation - not to publish any comment whatsoever.

The views expressed in any comment are those of the person making the comment and do not represent my views.

Can I use the content on your site or copy and paste it into another site/ document?

All the content of my posts is copyrighted - copyright belongs to ZenGuide unless otherwise stated.

You may use portions of a post or copy and paste portions of a post into another site or document provided you put that portion inside quotation marks and you acknowledge clearly on that site/ document that it is taken from ZenGuide and also that you credit ZenGuide clearly with it. A portion for these purposes would be up to one third of the text from the relevant post. This broadly reflects the UK law on copyright.

What is your policy on photographs and pictures used on this site?

My aim is to use photos from third parties licensed under the Creative Commons Licence on ZenGuide and, in any event, to include an acknowledgement to the source website and also a link to that website in return for being able to show that photo on this site. I do not earn any revenue from this site and so do not profit from such photos. Any copyright owner to a photo shown on this site who would like to discuss changing such arrangements may contact me via the Contact link in the far right sidebar and I will happily take down any photos on the request of the copyright owner.

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Site policies may be updated from time to time. Please check back for updates.