Our office provides web log or blog services in support of scholarly and curricular communications conducted by members of the university community at . The product available is WordPress.聽

Registration

The blog service is available to any current faculty, student or staff member of 51视频 who has an聽active 51视频 email account. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot provide accounts for university partners.聽

聽to request a blog. This is what you'll need to provide in the ticket:

  • A title for the blog
  • Any image you want to use for the banner photo
  • Any subpages you'll need created, such as a Contact page
  • An explanation of what the blog is to be used on the 51视频 page
  • List of people (uml.edu email addresses) who will have access to submit to the blog. These are in our WordPress blogs.

Cost

This service is provided at no cost to eligible users.聽

Usage

Use of the blog service and the content of all electronic pages are subject to all applicable 51视频 computer and network usage policies and local, state and federal laws. These policies include but are not limited to:聽

  • University resources may not be used to create web pages primarily for personal business or personal gain.
  • All material posted on the blog service must be in compliance with copyright law. Authors have the responsibility of acquiring all necessary permissions to post copyrighted material (including photographs).聽
  • The selling of online advertising space to non-university entities on any web page hosted or sponsored by 51视频 is strictly forbidden.聽
  • A web page may be considered in violation of content policies if it contains links to pages that violate the policy.聽

Disclaimer

The following statement must appear on all pages created through the university鈥檚 blog service, unless the pages were explicitly approved for official university business: 鈥淭he views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author(s). The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by University of Massachusetts Lowell.鈥澛�

The copyright and all related rights to original work posted via the blog service are owned by and are the sole responsibility of its author(s).聽

51视频 intends to archive the content of all blogs in the blog service for non-commercial, historical purposes. By using the blog service, authors grant 51视频 non-exclusive rights to archive blog content in any format.聽

Templates

51视频 reserves the right to require blog authors to utilize university approved templates for all hosted pages.聽

Service Limitations

51视频 may establish limits regarding the use of the blog service and may modify these limits at any time. This includes but is not limited to the total size of the blog content, the size of images, videos, software or other material posted to a blog.聽

51视频 offers the blog service at the author鈥檚 own risk. The blog service is provided on an 鈥渁s is鈥� and 鈥渁s available鈥� basis. The university does not guarantee that it will provide ancillary software, such as databases and script languages, that authors may wish to use in their blogs.聽

51视频 reserves the right to remove, at any time, at its sole discretion, any content posted on the blog service that it deems in violation of university policy or local, state or federal law.聽

51视频 reserves the right to change, at any time, at its sole discretion, the provisions of the blog service.