LIVE LONG, POST OFTEN.
ExploreLincoln Community is a cityblog
about Lincoln, Nebraska – a site about exploring life in Lincoln.
Like trying new restaurants, investigating old neighborhoods,
finding live music and discovering the little treasures of
Nebraska's Capitol City. It's a local web site by the people
of Lincoln, for the people of Lincoln. It's a common area for
Lincoln's online residents. It's a place where we celebrate
Lincoln’s culture – the voices, events, places, spaces and
faces.
HOW IT WORKS
1. This site is unedited, but it is moderated. The ambition is to assemble a group of local writers that contribute on a weekly basis (if you’re interested contact us by using the feedback link at the bottom of the page).
2. Anyone can read the content posted on this web site and if that’s all you’re interested in, that’s great.
3. How involved you want to get in the community is up to you. If you join the online network you can (free of charge):
4. This web site does not have an editorial board like a newspaper. Community writers say what they want which means that one writer may contradict another writer. Writers will sometimes misspell words or get facts wrong. Each individual writer is responsible for their own work.
5. This site is moderated to keep the discussion relevant and civil. Moderators may issue a warning or they may ban someone without warning. No explaination will be given, but if you think a mistake was made, please tell us.
HOW TO BEST PARTICIPATE
1. Join the site. Check out the forum and groups
2. Introduce yourself if you've joined a group.
3. Read and post comments on other people's stories. Offer tips or related stories and links.
4. Exercise restraint with self-promotional comments, stories, etc.
5. Do NOT spam. Do not email groups of people with self-promotional ranting. Doing so is a sure way of getting booted.
6. Consider this web site as an ongoing conversation rather than a free and anonymous bulletin board.
7. It's important if you join the conversation to introduce yourself, listen, participate politely and don't self-promote. Barging-in is rude.
8. Be a good contributor. This local network has a culture of trust. We trust you to act in a civilized manner; to treat others with opposing viewpoints with absolute respect; and to contribute in a positive way to constructive discussions about our city.
9. Support the reciprocal exchange of information and ideas. Good web citizens leave insightful comments and give credit to the source for a story or idea if they were inspired elsewhere online. You don't win bonus points by claiming credit for others' ideas, but you do by sharing the source of your inspiration. You need to give back.
10. If you're not already familiar with it, learn how to hyperlink. Your story, event, or tip offers very little to the rest of the world if you don't link to supplemental websites. For example, if you write about a local restaurant, link to a map. If you blog about a story on another site, link to it.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD COMMENT
CHARACTERISTICS OF A BAD COMMENT
• Personal attacks on others
• Deliberate provocation
• Vulgarity (by our standards, not yours)
• Self-promotion ("Visit my website where...")
• Overly excessive whining or complaining ("Idiots," "Lincoln sucks" etc.)
• Being overly argumentative or refusing to accept differences of opinion.
A special thank you to Duke City Fix for figuring it out before we arrived.
HOW IT WORKS
1. This site is unedited, but it is moderated. The ambition is to assemble a group of local writers that contribute on a weekly basis (if you’re interested contact us by using the feedback link at the bottom of the page).
2. Anyone can read the content posted on this web site and if that’s all you’re interested in, that’s great.
3. How involved you want to get in the community is up to you. If you join the online network you can (free of charge):
• Comment and discuss content
provided by local writers
• Develop your own blog (After sign-up, go to "My Page")
• Have your post featured by the moderators
• Participate in the community forum which is a wide-open discussion
• Start-up or participate in a specialized discussion group
• Develop your own blog (After sign-up, go to "My Page")
• Have your post featured by the moderators
• Participate in the community forum which is a wide-open discussion
• Start-up or participate in a specialized discussion group
4. This web site does not have an editorial board like a newspaper. Community writers say what they want which means that one writer may contradict another writer. Writers will sometimes misspell words or get facts wrong. Each individual writer is responsible for their own work.
5. This site is moderated to keep the discussion relevant and civil. Moderators may issue a warning or they may ban someone without warning. No explaination will be given, but if you think a mistake was made, please tell us.
HOW TO BEST PARTICIPATE
1. Join the site. Check out the forum and groups
2. Introduce yourself if you've joined a group.
3. Read and post comments on other people's stories. Offer tips or related stories and links.
4. Exercise restraint with self-promotional comments, stories, etc.
5. Do NOT spam. Do not email groups of people with self-promotional ranting. Doing so is a sure way of getting booted.
6. Consider this web site as an ongoing conversation rather than a free and anonymous bulletin board.
7. It's important if you join the conversation to introduce yourself, listen, participate politely and don't self-promote. Barging-in is rude.
8. Be a good contributor. This local network has a culture of trust. We trust you to act in a civilized manner; to treat others with opposing viewpoints with absolute respect; and to contribute in a positive way to constructive discussions about our city.
9. Support the reciprocal exchange of information and ideas. Good web citizens leave insightful comments and give credit to the source for a story or idea if they were inspired elsewhere online. You don't win bonus points by claiming credit for others' ideas, but you do by sharing the source of your inspiration. You need to give back.
10. If you're not already familiar with it, learn how to hyperlink. Your story, event, or tip offers very little to the rest of the world if you don't link to supplemental websites. For example, if you write about a local restaurant, link to a map. If you blog about a story on another site, link to it.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD COMMENT
• Insight/additional information
• Intelligent critique
• Wit/humor
• Calm, courteous, reasoned
• Relevant
• Intelligent critique
• Wit/humor
• Calm, courteous, reasoned
• Relevant
CHARACTERISTICS OF A BAD COMMENT
• Personal attacks on others
• Deliberate provocation
• Vulgarity (by our standards, not yours)
• Self-promotion ("Visit my website where...")
• Overly excessive whining or complaining ("Idiots," "Lincoln sucks" etc.)
• Being overly argumentative or refusing to accept differences of opinion.
A special thank you to Duke City Fix for figuring it out before we arrived.
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