Triumvirate
Joined: 10 Sep 2005
Posts: 262
Location: New York, USA
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 Posted: 4/29/2008, 8:24 pm Post subject: User Guidelines - My first draft |
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I've been working on launching a new site recently and have come to the point where I'm starting to work on the various guidelines and other last stage items.
My guidelines are pretty much based on the templates that Patrick has available from the Managing Online Forums book site:
http://www.managingonlineforums.com/downloadable-templates/
There are some basic changes to wording as well as some additions and deletions.
I'm hoping to get others to see what I may have missed that would come up. Did I skip or remove any major elements that should be included?
Thanks for the help.
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I like how you put your own spin on them.