Yale University Weblogs Help

YALE UNIVERSITY WEBLOGS: Rules + Policies

Standards and practices for weblogging on blogs.yale.edu

Last update: 18 April 2005


Web logging (blogging) services are available to all Yale faculty, students, and staff with a valid netid. Policies and standards described in the Yale University Information Technology Appropriate Use Policy (ITAUP) apply to all users of the blogs.yale.edu. All users should review this documentation prior to launching a new blog.

In addition to the ITAUP, there are a few standards specific to blogs.yale.edu:

  1. Blog accounts are considered "personal space." As such, they are not opened to global search engines, such as Google. If you would like to promote or share your blog, you will need to announce it to your audience.
  2. Individual accounts on blogs.yale.edu are limited to one netid. Write access to blog accounts is not shared. You should never share your netid and/or password with anyone.
  3. Posting of copyrighted material is not permitted on this service or any other University-managed service.
  4. If you would like to include images or other types of files in your blog you will need to store them in an area where you have write access. Images are not stored directly on the blog server. We recommend that all users store images and other files in their Pantheon space and link to them from the blog using a URL such as:
    <img src= http://pantheon.yale.edu /~mynetid /picturename.jpg>
    For more information on using images stored on pantheon in your blog, see the User Guide.
  5. Services provided by blogs.yale.edu are self supporting. If you need assistance, please refer to the online documentation. If you encounter a technical problem, please send email to blogs@yale.edu.
  6. Users are responsible for maintaining backup copies of their work. If you post material to blogs.yale.edu that is important to you, please keep a backup copy on your local machine. Operators of the blogs.yale.edu service are not responsible for maintaining backups of your work.
  7. For more information, please refer to the blogs.yale.edu FAQ and User Guide.