The Center guidelines for Participation are meant to help you understand how you can participate successfully in the Center for CIO Leadership community.  When participating in the Center community, please follow any guidelines set by your own organization as well as those posted here.

General Posting Guidelines

• Make sure your work is your own.  You need to have rights to any articles you post.  You do not need to ask permission to link to another site, blog or article but we ask that you reference your links so that others are aware of where they will navigate to when they click on a link. 
• When posting content, please offer some information as to why CIOs will find it valuable. 

Participation in Discussions

• We expect interaction and debate.  Please be courteous and respectful even when offering differing viewpoints on a subject or idea.  Please stay away from topics that may be offensive to others including politics, religion, personal attacks, offensive language, etc. 
• When you post content or a discussion, check back regularly so that as others reply, you can follow up as necessary.  There is a “Receive email notifications” link in the action box of every discussion and library post.  Just click on the link to get an email when someone replies or adds a comment to your content.

Representation and Selling

• The Center Team is very careful to post vendor-neutral content.  We never want to promote one brand or product over another.  We ask you to do the same. 
• Sales pitches, solicitation and overt self promotion are not allowed.  The Center team is happy to help you make sure you are appropriately represented on the site.  We believe that if you provide value to other members of the Center, they will seek out your expertise. 
• The member directory is for CIOs to interact with each other and other Center members.  Spamming or otherwise abusing member access will result in termination of your membership.

The Center’s Role

• There may be rare occasions when you have a question about something but you do not feel comfortable to post your question.  Please feel free to email the Center Team and we will post the question on your behalf.  We will note that the question was from a Center member but we won’t attribute the question to you.
• The Center Team reserves the right to remove your content for any reason or no reason at all.  We will, however, take all reasonable steps to work with you to get your content adjusted to fit our rules of engagement as long as it appears that you violated rules unintentionally.
• The Center is always looking for feedback.  Please do not wait for us to reach out to you.  Post a discussion or contact the team via email if you have suggestions for ways we might improve the Center site, communications, content etc.  We like complements too.

Do you have a question or comment about these guidelines?  Please email the Center Team.