Blogs serve as online journals that other Web visitors may read, comment on and/or subscribe to.
The blogs are viewable by the public.
Blog owners have access via SeaPort, the campus portal, exclusively and have the opportunity to turn commenting on or off. Only UNCW faculty, staff or students can comment on blogs if the owner has enabled this feature.
Logging In
The campus blog can be accessed directly via SeaPort, the campus portal:
- Visit the UNCW homepage and choose Faculty/Staff or Current Students on the left side
- Click SeaPort in the top right corner
Tip: Alternatively, the site can be accessed directly at http://seaport.uncw.edu - Login using your university e-mail username and password
- Click Log into your blog in the Services channel under the Faculty, Student, or Employee tab.
Blogging: Terms and Conditions of Use
Definition: This Web Log service (“blog”) is a forum which is intended for use by UNCW-authorized personnel only, and will be accessible to faculty, staff and students who have valid credentials to access UNCW’s SeaPort portal Web site.
Warning: Do NOT post personally identifiable or sensitive information, as content will be potentially viewable and shared by others.
All blogs must contain the following statement:
“The information herein is the sole responsibility of the posting party, and may not represent the views of the university.”
Terms of Use
- The use of any blog constitutes a privilege, not a right, and is subject to the standards of good scholarship and responsible civil discourse; specifically, these blogs do not constitute an open or limited access speech forum. Any off-color, disrespectful, defamatory, derogatory, or inappropriate posting may be removed by the university without recourse by the individual posting the content.
- Conversely, the use of any blog is subject to UNCW’s Code of Student Life(pdf) and the Responsible Use of Electronic Resources Policy, and any and all other rules, regulations, procedures or laws as the currently exist or hereafter promulgated or revised. Violations of any policy, applicable law, or university rules or regulations, may result not only in the summary removal of content and/or postings, but may result in further disciplinary actions against the posting party.
- By posting content on any blog, you represent and warrant you either own or control all rights to the content posted, including, all rights required to post the content. You further agree you will not intentionally post misleading or inaccurate information, and you will indemnify and hold harmless the university for any violations of these Terms and Conditions of Use, or any violation of applicable law, rule, policy, or regulation associated with your use of the blogging services.
- These blog services may be discontinued by the institution at any point for any reason.
- By posting to any blog you are agreeing that your posted original content (your original works of authorship) are submitted under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Public Use License. Under the terms of this license, you permit, in the absence of any compensation or royalties, that anyone may copy, distribute, display and/or perform your content, provided they credit your authorship each time they utilize the original content. The license also permits others to distribute derivative works of your content, but again, only if they do so under the same Creative Commons license that governs your original Content.
- Please read the full text of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons Public License. In addition to the treatment of #5 above, the license permits RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any content on your blog that you syndicate using RSS. All Content on your blog is syndicated for RSS aggregation unless you change your settings to indicate otherwise.
- By posting to any blog, you have agreed to grant to the university a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to use your content associated with all university educational, research, and public service activities.
- The blogs are provided “as is” and “as available”; the university makes no representations or warranties of any kind as to the operation or functionality of the blog services.
Business Continuity
Until further notice, this blog service is being managed and operated as a “pilot” project, or non-Production service, which means that there will be no provisions made for backup, recovery, or maintained archives of the material or content that is posted within. As such, reliance upon this data for course work and/or grading purposes is not advised. Service outages will be attended to during normal business hours (Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, excluding holidays) and the case will be handled as a “best-effort” to restore the blog service.
Also see the ITSD Systems Availability page.
