In the last week I have been working on a style guide for the eHub Web site and our Blogs. It is important that we have a style guide to maintain professionalism. Although a lot of our work is on personal Blogs, we are still linked to the School of Journalism. Our posts need to be consistent in name, address, title, and etc. style. We are journalists and the Blogs should be representative of our learning in the school.
I am working on combining The Associated Press' Stylebook, The University Daily Kansan's style supplement and the Wired Style Guide. As a class, we will have to decide what we want to adopt from each. In specific cases, like those relating to The University of Kansas, we will have to come up with our own guidelines. The Kansan's style supplement does this as well.
Getting even more specific, we'll have to invent our own guidelines for things within the Multimedia Newsroom, starting with the Multimedia Newsroom. How will we refer to it on the site and on our Blogs? I made a post on our development boards about this.
Adapting and adopting a style guide for this class is necessary because it will give us more credibility when other professionals visit our site and Blogs. Misspellings and fact errors are unacceptable. We are journalists. Browsing through the 694 Blogs I have found a bevy of misspellings, including the misspelling of a journalism professor's name.
The following are a variety of style sites:
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