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From: techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com on behalf of CapDev Communications
Sent: Tue 1/30/2007 2:04 PM
To: ekarenski-techwrl -at- yahoo -dot- com
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Ethics of posting samples?
I found PORTFOLIOS FOR TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS at a book
display at the Council for Programs in Science and Technical Communications
conference last October. Because I teach in the technical communications
program at UC Berkeley Extension, I was given review copies of some of the
books. There is no price indicated on my copy. It's softbound, 182 pages
plus bibliography and index. PORTFOLIOS FOR TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL
COMMUNICATORS can be used in a classroom; it includes homework/exercises in
each chapter. Chapters include: Understanding Professional Portfolios: An
Overview; Creating a Portfolio Identity; Portfolio Contents, Design, and
Structure; Revising for Portfolio Quality; The Electronic Portfolio; Legal
and Ethical Issues Affecting Portfolios; Getting Feedback: Responding To and
Revising Portfolios; Portfolios and the Job Search--Getting Prepared; and
Using Portfolios During Interviews.
This is the only book that I've looked at specifically for the development
of an ePortfolio. There might well be others available. I think that it is
very solid. Given that I have not looked at other publications, I cannot
make any comparisons. Check http://www.prenhall.com/TCPortfolios for
additional information.
Best,
Pat
On 1/30/07, Karen <ekarenski-techwrl -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Do you recommend that book (PORTFOLIOS FOR TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL
> COMMUNICATORS)?
>
> *CapDev Communications <capdev -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com>* wrote:
>
> This is an important discussion. I have recently been requested to produce
> an ePortfolio for posting online. All of the work that I have done for the
> past two years has been for a single client and every document has been
> classified as either confidential or internal use only. It's part of my
> contract not to share my client's documents with anyone. I have a great
> working relationship with this client and I'm not going to risk this
> relationship by trying to sanitize the work for inclusion in an
> ePortfolio.
>
> I'm working around my dilemma, but I thought that people in this
> discussion
> might want to know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of
> 1998. I read about this in PORTFOLIOS FOR TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL
> COMMUNICATORS by Herb J. Smith and Kim Haimes-Korn (2007), published by
> Pearson Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-170458-3. Excerpt: "For example, you
> decide to create a Web-hosted version of your portfolio and protect access
> to it with password protection technology. Someone bypasses the
> technology,
> views your portfolio, and downloads your copyrighted files. Under the
> DMCA,
> that activity is illegal because this person has bypassed a technology
> designed specifically to protect a digital work."
>
> Chapter 6 of PORTFOLIOS FOR TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS
> discusses legal and ethical issues affecting portfolios.
>
> Years ago I did consulting for a professor of intellectual properties at a
> prominent law school in New York. An important issue with copyright is
> enforcement. How do you know when someone has violated copyrights,
> especially in such a wide-open space as the Web?
>
> FYI,
> Pat
>
> On 1/30/07, Nancy Allison wrote:
> >
> > Hi, folks. I'm considering creating a web page with links to pdfs of
> > various
> > docs I've written. Then, I can simply point potential clients to the
> page
> > and they can look at whatever type of sample they want.
> >
> > What do you think of the issue of posting unedited excerpts? Product
> > names,
> > etc., would pop up here and there.
> >
> > I'm guessing I need to edit out product names and other identifying
> terms.
> > What would you do?
> >
> > --Nancy
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