Fred Wilson’s blog, “A VC”, is one of the venture capital and entrepreneurship blogs I enjoy most. His recent post outlines how living in the public, blogging in particular, can be fruitful when one follows a few simple rules. I’ve been interested in starting JeffFernandez.com for quite some time now, and I think the guidelines Fred provides are particularly helpful:
“1. Keep your family out of it until they want to be in it
2. Be nice.
3. Demand that others are nice back.
4. Encourage the community to police the comments. Early on Jackson was my “bouncer” and now Kid Mercury has assumed that role.
5. Take the nasty comments lightly and use humor to defuse them
6. Do not delete comments unless they are hateful to others, porn, or spam
7. Ignore the trolls even though it kills you
8. Be careful with photos. The greatest lesson I got was when I posted a photo of me on vacation looking smug. Bad move that I learned a lot from.
9. Give more than you take
10. Enjoy yourself. Talking, discussing, and debating is fun. Keep it that way.”
These make a lot of sense, and moving forward, I’m going to do my very best to follow them.
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