Disclosure Policy Generator
I found a really useful tool for bloggers : a disclosure policy generator.
Disclosurepolicy.org offers a generator for a disclosure policy that can be used freely in your own blogsite. This generator provides a 6-step process in producing a disclosure policy.
You will be presented with 5 questions and you have to choose an option that best describes your blog.The generator would ask you questions about:
- Type of Blog - the kind of blog that you have
- Compensation - if your site accepts compensation or not
- Advertising and Content - whether you blog is influenced by advertising and etc.
- Compensation - If your blog’s opinion is influenced by compensation
- Conflicts of Interest - whether your blog is influenced by any affiliations
- Policy - this is the part where you can view the generated disclosure policy
After you have answered the 5th question, you can view the generated Policy Disclosure by clicking “Finish” button. All you have to do is copy the generated disclosure to your blog and you’re good to go. How you present that disclosure in your blogsite is up to you. You can make it as one of your site’s primary link (like what I did here in my blog.. see the Disclosure Policy at the top of the page) or you can make it as a text link in your website’s footer as suggested by Disclosurepolicy.org .
Disclosurepolicy.org also offers “badges” (image) that you can use to link back to their website. Two of the “badges” are shown here.
The generated disclosure policy can also be modified. According to Disclosurepolicy.org :
“This generator is designed to provide you with a structure for creating a disclosure policy. Feel free to add, modify and delete text to serve your own purposes.”
Great stuff !
My First Blog
Finally.
My first attempt in writing a blog. For months, I’ve been thinking of having my own space and write stuff in the web. I’ve been lost (and still lost somehow) with many aspects of blogging.
First off. I would like to thank the vlexo community for providing me the opportunity to explore cpanel by providing me my free webhost last December. I was searching Google for information about blogging and webhosting and just found myself signing in to the vlexo forum. I hanged out in the forum for a while, replied and posted to some threads. I found out some time later that they are offering a free webhosting service. I am eager to try it out, so I gathered information from the forum threads about the free hosting application process. I read and scoured the forum for days following the links and information needed before jumping in and applying for a free webhosting. I read the TOS (Terms of Service), the vlexo webhosting features and I also took time reading what other applicants have written when they applied for the free webhost service. I especially noted why some applications were rejected and why others were instantly approved by the vlexo staff.
Equipped with all the information needed, I applied. And just minutes after posting my request, it was approved! Great!
Now, I have my free webhost, what next?! Basically, learn what I can do with the provided webhost. I learned cpanel, creating mySQL database (thanks to Matt of www.precisionforums.com) and fantastico-installed scripts.
For the next couple of weeks after acquiring my free vlexo webhost account, I installed and tested available fantastico scripts on my free account. It opened up and diverted my attention away from blogging as I discovered another interesting web application : Forums. I installed, learned, configured and tried running forum applications on my free account. I tried SMF and myBB. It was fun !
The learning curve is somehow stressful since I have to learn many different things at the same time. Learning webhost ins-and-outs and information about forum (plugins, theme, administration, troubleshooting etc). But it is fun and rewarding.
Well, I joined some forum to help and guide me along the way. Aside from the vlexo community forum, I joined Matt’s Precision Forums and Kalina’s WebTalkForums. I also joined other forums but that is for another blog entry. :p
Fast forward. I bought my domain name from namecheap.com and availed of a paid shared hosting from vlexo.com.
My current dilemma is putting all the pieces of gathered information about blogging and making it all work. I am now shifting my interest from my original plan (a different CMS software) to this newly discovered “blogging”. I will try to learn and know more about the intricacies of blogging. I have already installed WordPress on my paid webhost account and I have gathered WordPress plugins.
And now, I’m still working my way in making sense out of them. :p
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About the Author
Nataly Portia Raña is a graduate of B.A. Journalism at UP-Diliman in Quezon City, Philippines.
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