{"id":756,"date":"2009-08-11T14:59:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=756"},"modified":"2009-08-11T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:34:30","slug":"the-one-about-badges-and-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2009\/08\/11\/the-one-about-badges-and-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"the one about badges and integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eventually, I will share my thoughts on BlogHer ’09 and report on a terrific breakfast meeting I had during BlogHer with Beth Smits and Erin Bix of Best Buy to learn more about Best Buy’s Women’s Leadership Forum (WOLF).<\/a><\/p>\n

Today, though I want to talk a little bit more about badges and integrity. As I’ve written before, you don’t need a badge to blog with integrity, and if you don’t have integrity, slapping a badge up on your blog isn’t going to magically give it to you.\u00a0 Integrity is a deeply personal thing, and in the context of blogging, a matter between a writer and her readers.<\/p>\n

Blog with Integrity<\/a>, the initiative I co-created with fellow bloggers Liz Gumbinner, Kristen Chase and Julie Marsh, is simply a public statement about how we intend to behave as bloggers.\u00a0 It’s not prescriptive nor does it attempt to classify blogs by content or policies. It’s a simple code of conduct based on fairly universal principles – respect for others, responsibility for one’s words and deeds, and disclosure of our interests. If bloggers want to display their support of these principles, they can sign the pledge and\/or display a badge.<\/p>\n

Just as some folks like to display their support for causes and political candidates by wearing buttons and putting bumper stickers on their cars and others do not, some bloggers like badges and others do not. All we can say for certain is that the person wearing the button or the blog displaying the badge supports the cause. It is incorrect to conclude that the absence of same indicates lack of support. Or in the case of Blog with Integrity, a lack of integrity.
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Some people don’t like badges. Don’t read more into it.<\/p>\n

Is the badge a nice cue about the blog and the blogger? Sure, but it’s not enough, and we never intended it to be viewed as such.<\/p>\n

Make your judgment about a blog based on everything <\/strong>presented to you as a reader, not just on whether it displays a badge, and please don’t assume that a blog without <\/strong>the Blog with Integrity badge is somehow “less” than a blog with it.<\/p>\n

Such an assumption is in direct conflict with a core principle of Blog with Integrity: there is no one right way to blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

That includes our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eventually, I will share my thoughts on BlogHer ’09 and report on a terrific breakfast meeting I had during BlogHer with Beth Smits and Erin Bix of Best Buy to learn more about Best Buy’s Women’s Leadership Forum (WOLF). Today, though I want to talk a little bit more about badges and integrity. As I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[70,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t