Welcome to the MyWorkButterfly.com Community! Feel free to share,
connect, communicate and make business happen with other members in
any of our different community areas. Once you’ve read the
following rules and guidelines, jump right in.
Guidelines for Community Participation
1. Don't post any advertising, promotional materials, referrals,
press releases, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or
any other form of solicitation.
2. Don't post with the intent to disrupt or disturb the community
or to interfere with other members' use and enjoyment of our
community.
3. Don't attack the character or damage the reputation of other
members, name-call, insult, ridicule, harass, mock or otherwise
verbally assault other members of this community. This is a
supportive network and all behavior should reflect accordingly.
4. Don’t bully or intimidate other members. Constructive criticism
is welcome, but language that can be construed as belittling or
rude is not.
5. Don't post anything hateful — including targeting race, class,
gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, weight
or disability.
6. Don't create a screen name to hide your identity while you are
violating our guidelines.
7. Don't post or link to inappropriate content. Inappropriate
content is anything MyWorkButterfly.com deems obscene or vulgar,
harassing, humiliating, defamatory, libelous, untrue or invasive of
someone else’s privacy. 8. This content includes including
graphics, images, stories, blog posts, discussion threads, events
or videos.
8. Don't post anything you don't have the right to publish or
violate any copyright or other proprietary rights in your posts.
That includes published articles, images or videos, without the
author or owner's permission.
9. Don't transfer issues or posts from one group to another with
the intention of drawing negative attention to the post.
10. Don't hit and run. Please don't go to a group where you don't
ordinarily post simply to point out the wrongness of another poster
or group's actions, beliefs, or comments.
11. Don't use all capital letters in your postings unless you
REALLY MEAN TO YELL!
12. Don't post the same message more than once in multiple forums
(such as blogs or discussion threads) or on groups.
13. Don't flood. This includes repeatedly "bumping" a thread,
disrupting an online chat event by entering the same phrase over
and over again, or otherwise using up bandwidth for no reason
14. Don't post on behalf of banned members. If you do this, you may
be banned without notice or warning.
15. Please consult the job board if you are looking to hire or
acquire a job, and do not indiscriminately post to various groups,
blogs or discussion threads. You may promote your job posting on
the job board.
Self-promotion
We understand the desire for members to use MyWorkButterfly.com as
a way to promote themselves and their businesses. We want to
encourage and foster this, but there are acceptable and
unacceptable ways to do this:
1. You may not directly advertise or promote yourself en masse to
the membership via messaging, in any comment, blog post, discussion
thread, group, or any media, including both photos and videos. The
content in question is subject to removal at MyWorkButterfly.com’s
discretion. Additionally, this content should not resemble that
which you’d normally find on a press release or advertisement or
late-night infomercial. 2. The appropriate way to attract attention
is to be a periodic contributor of valued content to the site. In
the blog posts, discussion threads, photos, videos of groups
started by you or fellow members, share your expertise, knowledge
and thoughts with the group as you would with any client, without
directly soliciting them for business as you do so, or promoting
your business or company. Your knowledge should speak for itself
and therefore build your reputation and brand at the site within
the community areas.
3. In blog posts, photos, groups, discussion threads or videos, you
are welcome to link back to your member profile page only.
You
may not include any contact information, including the name of your
business, in these areas. Acceptable language includes “Please
stop by my home at MyWorkButterfly.com” or “Visit my member profile
page for more information about me.” Oftentimes videos or photos
contain brief, promotional language or text within them, which is
acceptable, as long as the videos and pictures contain educational
or useful material and no company branding.
4. If you would like to advertise your company, products or
services to the membership at large, please contact us about
advertising on MyWorkButterfly.com.
5. A serious violation is poaching or directly soliciting
MyWorkButterfly.com members using MyWorkButterfly.com itself. We
are not against competition. However, using the MyWorkButterfly.com
internal email messaging, our technology or platform to post a
self-promoting blog, discussion, or comment on any profile wall
with the intent to solicit members to or advertise a competitive
site is in violation of our community guidelines and you will be
subject to an immediate ban, and open to legal prosecution. Banned
members lose all points.
Membership Profiles
1. Your profile should include your name and an avatar, and some
simple, clear details that let us all know a little bit about you,
including your city and state. An avatar is your computerized
representation of yourself, like a headshot or image. Remember this
is a network! If you want to connect, communicate, collaborate, and
be found by colleagues and friends, a more complete profile will
help.
2. Using your company logo for an avatar is perfectly acceptable,
but again, make sure somewhere on your profile is a spot to let
people know the identity of the person behind the company profile
if your member profile name is, for instance
“MyWorkButterfly.com.com.” We like to encourage as much real-person
interaction as possible, as opposed to interacting solely with a
nameless, faceless brand.
3. You may use your member profile page to promote your company or
business, including any links to company Web sites, blogs or
contact information.
4. You may not alter your page so dramatically that it competes
with any MyWorkButterfly.com-branded materials, including any and
all advertisements posted by MyWorkButterfly.com, anywhere on the
site. Such alteration of Web pages – which includes banner ad-like
promotional materials running atop membership profiles – is
strictly forbidden, subject to review and will be removed.
5. You may set up widgets to use as promotional materials on your
member profile page, as long as the branding is clear that any and
all material is solely that which you are providing and are not
MyWorkButterfly.com-created content or endorsements.
Blogs
Blogs are an excellent way for people to get to know you better.
Start a blog post to discuss current trends, observations, share
news articles (with proper attribution), funny stories, personal
experiences, work/life dilemmas or successes.
1. You may include pictures or images in your posts. If you need
help, please contact customerservice@myworkbutterfly.com if you
need guidance on this.
2. You may include content from previously published, print or
online, materials with proper attribution. If you can, provide a
link to where the content originates.
3. Blogs are easy to start and are great ways for you to express
yourself to the community. Great blogs we'll feature on the main
page for all to see. There are several ways to start a blog. You
can click on The Blogs menu tab and then click "Add Blog Post".
4. Blogs posts should not include company info and may not link
directly to personal blogs.
5. Please review the “Self-promotion” section of these guidelines
for more information.
Forums
A Forum is more of a short topic or question posed to the community
where replies are generally desired. You can also create a new
topic for discussion or ask a question by clicking on the Start a
New Forum link. Here you can give it a title or write the forum
text/question and even upload file attachments if desired. We
encourage you to pick a category that's applicable or general if
none apply and to add tags that help people find your
discussion!
1. You may include pictures or images in your posts. If you need
help, please contact customerservice@myworkbutterfly.com, if you
need guidance on this.
2. You may include content from previously published, print or
online, materials with proper attribution. If you can, provide a
link to where the content originates.
3. Unlike a blog, which is more directed towards personal
commentary, forums are used to solicit feedback. There is no right
or wrong application here.
4. Please review the “Self-promotion” section of these guidelines
for more information.
Groups
Groups allow you to invite or include people who have a common
interest around a particular topic. You can share it, socialize it,
communicate to other members in the group, edit and manage. It’s
your group… make it special. For instance, those who are interested
in issues surrounding franchising experience would want to join a
group that focuses on those issues. If no such group exists, feel
free to create one, using the following guidelines:
1. If you start a group, you are responsible for that group and to
ensure that it remains lively and active. The MyWorkButterfly.com
staff will remove any group that appears to be inactive for more
than 60 days.
2. When you start a group, make sure that you include a headline,
appropriate avatar and a brief description of the group. Also
included should be at least one or two forum threads that tackle an
issue the group – or you - may want to discuss. Any group started
with no forum threads in it will be removed after 60 days of its
creation.
3. Groups themselves may not be promotional in nature. For
instance, if you work for The Chamber of Commerce, you may not
start a group that is called "The Chamber of Commerce." This is
considered promotional in nature and will be removed. You are
welcome, however, to start a group about local business in
general.
4. As group creator, make sure to visit your group frequently and
chat with your fellow members, no matter the forum thread. Create
new discussions daily. The direction your group takes, and the
conversation within, is up to you. Reach out to your fellow group
members directly by asking them to join in on conversations.
5. Group landing pages or forums may not include promotional links
or feeds to your company or personal blog. You are welcome to use
feeds as long as they are not promotional in nature. You are
welcome to link to your member profile within a discussion thread,
but not on the landing page of a particular group.
6. Invite MyWorkButterfly.com friends to join your group, or
promote your group within your blog.
7. Participation in any group is similar to that in a blog or forum
thread. Language and content in groups should adhere to the same
policies as blogs and forum threads. Please review the
“Self-promotion” section of these guidelines for more
information.
Violations of Community Guidelines
If you violate the MyWorkButterfly.com community guidelines, expect
to be contacted individually by community staff. Your actions may
result in a warning, a suspension, or permanent banning from
participation in our community.
1. MyWorkButterfly.com has adopted a “Three Strikes” policy when it
comes to banning. MyWorkButterfly.com will contact you directly to
inform you of a violation of the community guidelines. After three
violations, you will be banned from the community.
MyWorkButterfly.com reserves the right to handle each violation on
a case-by-case basis and, if the situation warrants, to ban any
member at any time, for any reason, with or without warning.
2. Members who have been reprimanded for violating any
MyWorkButterfly.com community guidelines will have 48 hours to
rectify the violation. If no action is taken during this period,
members will be reprimanded again and the action will be counted
against their “Three Strikes” allotment.
3. Banning is done at the community staff's discretion and is the
result of our sole determination of a member's demonstrated
inability or disinclination to follow our guidelines.
4. If you poach and solicit MyWorkButterfly.com members using
MyWorkButterfly.com messaging, you may be prosecuted. We do not
publicly discuss or announce warnings, suspensions or bannings.
5. If a thread that contains a violation of these guidelines has
information that's useful to the original poster or other members
of the site, it may be edited or locked. However, if in our sole
judgment a thread was created for the purpose of violating the
guidelines, violates enough guidelines to be irredeemable, or
contains no otherwise useful information, it may be removed.
6. Because of the size of our community, we can't monitor all posts
on the site. If you see a message you believe violates our
guidelines, please contact us.
Your Rights and Responsibilities
Please bear in mind that all of the material you read in our
community areas comes from other members. Because our community is
large, MyWorkButterfly.com doesn't monitor or verify all the
information posted by our members. The comments, opinions, and
statements posted on our bulletin boards, forums, groups and chats
don't necessarily reflect the views of MyWorkButterfly.com. The
information posted on our boards and blog postings, including
advice and opinions, is the responsibility of those members who
create the posts.
Please consult your business advisors or other qualified
professionals before relying on information you find in the
community areas. MyWorkButterfly.com is not responsible for the
accuracy of posts and is not liable for any damage or loss that may
result from your reliance on what other members have said.
All MyWorkButterfly.com communications, including blogs, group
discussion and forum posts, are public and not private
communications. MyWorkButterfly.com has the right to modify and
publish, both on our site and in other media, any information you
post in our community areas. Please note that the material you post
may be indexed by search engines such as Yahoo and Google.
Community staff and volunteer hosts may use your membership e-mail
to contact you regarding your messages in our community. You're
responsible for keeping your e-mail address active and updated.
Failure to keep your e-mail address updated may result in your
being banned until we can confirm that you have a valid e-mail
address associated with your MyWorkButterfly.com membership.
Keep your login information, including your password, private.
Sharing of memberships or screen names is not allowed and may
result in your being banned. MyWorkButterfly.com accepts no
responsibility for use of your membership or computer by third
parties, with or without your permission.
We reserve the right to modify or change these guidelines without
notice.
Privacy Guidelines
Never provide your password, telephone numbers, or home address to
anyone online. Be very careful about responding to solicitations
for interviews or research. Note, however, that MyWorkButterfly.com
editors might invite you to respond to such solicitations from time
to time.
Never divulge any private or personal information about another
person online. That includes the person's real name or address,
e-mail address, and any other personal information that the person
has not asked you to make public. Don't forward or post private
messages that someone has sent to you unless you have his or her
permission. Only send e-mail to another MyWorkButterfly.com member
if he or she has given you expressed permission. Please don't
solicit other members' personal information.
The e-mail address you provide is for our use only, unless you
provide it to other members. By accepting friendships on
MyWorkButterfly.com, you take full responsibility for any e-mail
you receive. MyWorkButterfly.com does not monitor such
communications and will not intervene between members who use this
function. The only way to keep from receiving undesirable e-mail is
to remove the offending member from your friends list and not share
your e-mail address.
MyWorkButterfly.com reserves the right to resend invitations by
members, and will only resend invitations once per month.
MyWorkButterfly.com will do its best to resend invitations only
once.
Members of the MyWorkButterfly.com community sometimes organize
donations, gift exchanges, reunions, and other offline activities.
Such arrangements are private and are not sponsored, vetted, or
hosted by MyWorkButterfly.com. You participate at your own
risk.
If you're looking for subjects to interview or participants for a
study, please contact the Community Manager to ask for permission
before querying the MyWorkButterfly.com community.
Customerservice@myworkbutterfly.com
welcomes any and all comments and feedback. Please contact us
regarding the following situations:
1. Report any concern you have about our community
2. Get help navigating the site or participating in our
community
3. Get clarification of these guidelines or any other aspect of our
community
4. Alert us to a violation of these guidelines
5. Ask about our Rewards Program MyWorkButterfly.com’s community
policies are based on our belief that everyone has a right to free
expression and that by talking openly with others we can all become
better people and better professionals. We are committed to helping
our members do the best job they can to achieve personal and
professional aspirations. To that end, we respect individual
differences in philosophies, beliefs, opinions, and work styles,
and we expect our community members to do the same.