WIC Community List Rules

 

What is Allowed

• Seeking candidates for consulting or job opportunities (please list the city and state of the opportunity in the subject line)
• Soliciting referrals for business-related professional services (accountants, lawyers, printers, insurance, etc.)
• Asking questions about running your practice or managing client relationships
• Soliciting mentorship
• Soliciting specific referrals or contacts within a specific company — not general sales leads
• Announcing WIC-sponsored events

What is Not Allowed

• Self-promotion, introductory messages, unsolicited promotions or referrals
• Promotion of any products or services
• Discussions of fees and what to charge for your own services
• Selling anything
• Announcing non-WIC events
• Posting for non-list members:  Posting one-time jobs for others is fine, but asking questions and getting compiled responses is a benefit reserved for paid affiliate subscribers or WIC members.
• Nanny and other household service-related postings
• Newsletters of any type, other than the WIC-produced newsletter
• Invitations to update contact information in Plaxo, LinkedIn, Facebook, or other similar services 

All of these items - except discussion of fees, posting for non-list members, and the posting of any newsletters or invitations to update contact information in Plaxo, LinkedIn, etc. - are allowed on the WIC Off-Topic list.

General List Rules

• No "Reply All." Be sure to select the individual's name/email address. Selecting Reply may post to the full list, so please double-check before posting. We encourage original posters to compile all answers and post them as a resource for the list. Please respect any individual who replies with a resource but wishes not to be included in the compilation.
• No forwarding WIC community messages without the permission of the person who posted the e-mail.
• Post a message to only one list. Choose the Community list, Off-Topic list, or the Members only list, depending on the message. We encourage members to post to the Community List when they want to reach the broadest audience.
• Don't flame people who violate these rules. Instead, send your concern to listmonitor@womeninconsulting.org who will deal appropriately with anyone violating list rules.
• No unsolicited promotion of products or services. This includes your own, as well as those of other people (such as your accountant, your nanny, your interior designer, your sister-in-law), and also extends to websites, books, movies, etc., that you feel are helpful. If a poster asks for such a recommendation, then, of course, you may share, but you may not post such a promotion or recommendation unless someone asks for it first. This also includes the posting of any newsletters on any of the WIC lists.
• Do not post messages for non-list members.  The posting of one-time jobs is allowable, but asking questions and then compiling the answers is a subscriber benefit.

Consequences of Not Following List Rules

Anyone sending an email that does not follow the guidelines will receive a written warning from the List Monitor. A second offense will receive a written warning and temporary suspension from the list; reinstatement will occur only after the list member has notified the WIC List Monitor that she has read the Email List Guidelines on the web site and agrees to follow them in the future. A third offense for WIC Community members will result in removal from the list for the remainder of the calendar year; paid WIC members will have their emails monitored for a period of 15 to 30 days. Monitoring means that all emails will be reviewed and approved by a list manager before being posted. The length of time that emails will be monitored will be determined on a case-by-case basis by the list administrators. A paid WIC member who violates the rules after a period of being monitored will be subject to removal from the list for the rest of the calendar year. All violations by either WIC Community members or paid WIC members are tracked throughout the year by the List Monitor, but are dropped at the beginning of each calendar year, allowing every member to start the year with no violations.