RealEstateConnections.TV (RECTV) and National Association of Realtors® (NAR) believes that this professional online community will help international real estate professionals communicate among each other and supports blogging as a valuable component for sharing information, ideas and commentaries about the international real estate market. The Agent Blog Guidelines have been developed for members who post and comment in this blog. The guidelines outline the legal implications of blogging and also include recommended best practices to consider when posting in the Agent Blog.
LEGAL PARAMETERS: The following two bullets cover your legal responsibilities and non-disclosure obligations. Failure to abide by these two guidelines can result in serious ramifications for individual bloggers and/or individuals who post on the blogs of others.
Legal Liability
1. When you choose to go public with your opinions via a blog, you are legally responsible for your commentary. Individual bloggers can be held personally liable for any commentary deemed to be defamatory, obscene (not swear words, but rather the legal definition of “obscene”), proprietary, or libelous for these reasons, bloggers should exercise caution with regards to exaggeration, colorful language, guesswork, obscenity, copyrighted materials, legal conclusions, and derogatory remarks or characterizations. In essence, your blog (posting or comments in other blogs) at your own risk. Outside parties actually can pursue legal action against you (not RECTV or NAR) for postings.
BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES: These five guidelines provide a roadmap for constructive, respectful, and productive dialogue between bloggers and their International Colleagues. We consider these to be “best practices guidelines” that are in the spirit of our culture and the best interest of all members, whether they blog or not. We encourage members to follow these guidelines and are mandatory to do so.
Be Respectful of Your Colleagues
1. Be thoughtful and accurate in your posts, and be respectful of how other members may be affected.
Get Your Facts Straight
2. To ensure you are not misrepresenting a colleague or their work, consider check if the information you are going to post is true and accurate. This courtesy will help you provide your readers with accurate insights, especially when you are blogging outside your area of expertise. If there is someone member who knows more about the topic than you, check with them to make sure you have your facts straight.
Provide Context to Your Argument
3. Please be sure to provide enough support in your posting to help members understand your reasoning, be it positive or negative. We appreciate the value of multiple perspectives, so help us to understand yours by providing context to your opinion.
Engage in Private Feedback:
4. Not everyone who is reading your blog will feel comfortable approaching you if they are concerned their feedback will become public. In order to maintain an open dialogue that everyone can comfortably engage in, Agents bloggers are asked to welcome “off-blog” feedback from their colleagues who would like to privately respond, make suggestions, or report errors without having their comments appear your blog. Bloggers want to know what you think. If you have an opinion, correction or criticism regarding a posting, reach out for the blogger directly. Whether privately or on their blog, let the blogger know your thoughts.
Advertising is not allowed:
5. As we mentioned at the beginning of this guideline. This is a blog for share information, post ideas and comment about the international real estate market. Advertisement of your company, a real estate property or any other advertisement will not be allowed.
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