Many corporations are jumping on the blogging bandwagon. It’s important that the whole organization knows the rules and internal policies of your blog. The answers to these questions will determine which business rules govern the functionality of any corporate blog.

1. Who can post entries on the blog?

2. Who can post comments on the blog?

3. What kinds of content are allowed on the blog?

a. Text

b. Images

c. Audio

d. Video

e. Surveys

f. Quizzes

g. Animation

h. Links

i. Advertisements

j. HTML content

k. Animation

l. PDFs

m. Blogroll

4. What kind of content is allowed in comments?

a. Text

b. Images

c. Audio

d. Video

e. Surveys

f. Quizzes

g. Animation

h. Links

i. Advertisements

j. HTML content

k. Animation

l. PDFs

5. Will postings be reviewed and approved before posting?

6. Will comments be reviewed and approved before posting?

7. Will an administrator have the ability to delete postings after they have been published?

8. Will an administrator have the ability to delete comments after they have been published?

9. Will an RSS feed of the Blog be made available?

10. What are the database fields for the blog?

a. Date

b. Title

c. Body

d. Profile

i. Name

ii. Location

iii. Description

11. Will there be an archive?

12. Will blog entries be archived by month?

13. Which fields will be available for the blog entry?

a. Title – main title of the post,

b. Body – main content of the post,

c. Comments – comments added by readers

d. Category (or tags) – category the post is labeled with (optional, multiple categories possible)

e. Permalink – the URL of the full, individual article

f. Post Date – date and time the post was published

g. Trackback – links back from other sites

* List of blog fields from Wikipedia

14. How will the blog deal with spammers?

15. Would you like certain words to be automatically filtered? This can work in two ways. See below.

a. We can use a set list of common profanities. If a profanity is used in either a blog or a comment, the entry will not publish to the site.

b. We can give you the ability to build a list manually and update the list whenever a new bad word comes to mind.

By: Ivy Hastings