When you contribute your ideas and thoughts at ItsMILife.com, you are putting your work out on the Internet for the entire world to see. It’s important that you adhere to a few simple rules. But it’s also important that you use common sense, respect others on the site and, above all, have fun!
What is acceptable
There are a lot of ways you can contribute and be a part of this community. They include:
Become a blogger: You can create your own blog posts, including links to photos, videos and other sites. This allows you a voice in the community. One important way to use that voice is to start a “conversation” with others. That means you write about things that will encourage other users to comment and contribute, link back, and create meaningful dialogue for the others othe site.
Ask a question: Do you have a question about high school, college, careers? Sports, extra curricular activities or standardized tests? ItsMILife users can ask and answer questions, post them in groups and tag them based on content.
Answer questions : If you are a registered ItsMILife user you are invited to answer questions posed by others on the site. We encourage this! Please feel free to link to content that helps support your answers. If you want to know more about linking, we provide a tutorial on how to link effectively.
Comment: You can comment on others’ blog posts. We want this, and encourage this. Remember to be respectful!
Join a group: We have created “groups” at ItsMILife so that members can “gather” with others who share their interests or goals. The initial groups center around colleges and universities. But if you have a group you would like to suggest, please let us know.
What’s not acceptable
ItsMILife is a site by, for and about you, the users. So please help us police it for unacceptable content, and maintain standards for your own posts. Here are the kinds of content we consider unacceptable:
- Blog posts, questions, answers or comments that are used to abuse or harass another person.
- Defamatory statements that are knowingly false or mispresent another person.
- Violates copyright: Copyright is the “seal” someone puts on their own creative works, whether it’s a body of text, a photo, a graphic or a video. There are a number of places on the Internet where people share their work. YouTube, for example, encourages sharing of much of its work by providing an “embed” code. You can even have YouTube videos appear on your own sites, or this one. Flickr and other photo sites have some photos available for sharing. And there is a lot of content that now carries something called the Creative Commons license, which means you can copy and use the content under some circumstances. But it’s a violation of law to copy someone’s work without crediting that person. And it’s just good Internet manners to credit and link to the work of others.