Use your first three initials of your last name and employee ID as your username and the last 4 digits of your social security number as your password in order to access the blog.
Terms of Use
Meade Electric Company, Inc. Blog Policy and Guidelines for Use
Meade Electric Company, Inc.
(Meade) is a large organization with a growing need
to communicate internally more effectively across multiple corporate boundaries and geographies.
In order to do this, Meade has established an online internal organizational blog known as the “One Meade Blog”.
We have developed this policy and guidelines for those who wish to participate. The blog is intended to be used
in order to communicate about our business, our successful projects, and personal events that you would like to share.
We encourage use of this new communication tool by submitting comments, pictures or even replying to another post
submitted by one of your peers. Linking to the blog site can be made by accessing the Meade corporate website at www.meade100.com, going to the employee login tab at the top of the screen and selecting the blog link.
Use your first three initials of your last name and employee ID as your username and the last 4 digits of
your social security number as your password in order to access the blog. You may also send an e-mail with pictures,
videos, or any information to OneMeadeBlog@meade100.com. You will be asked to agree to the terms of use when
you log on to the site for the first time.
Legal Liability:
When you decide to give your opinions via blog, you are legally responsible for your commentary. Individual
bloggers or those contributing to the blog by posting comments or sending a contribution to the “One Meade Blog”
e-mail can be held personally liable for any commentary deemed to be defamatory, obscene (the legal definition of “obscene”),
proprietary, or libelous (whether pertaining to Meade, individuals, or any other company for that matter). For these reasons,
bloggers should exercise caution with regards to exaggeration, colorful language, guesswork, obscenity, copyrighted materials,
legal conclusions, and derogatory remarks or characterizations.
Company Privileged Information
Any confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information is obviously off-limits
for your blog per the Proprietary Information Agreement. To obtain a copy of
your agreement, please contact Elizabeth Newman at EN@Meade100.com.
The One Meade Blog is to be used for internal information only and will not
be copied, printed, distributed to anyone outside of this company. If such a
case happens, Meade has the right to take legal action upon any damage that
has occurred on the individual (s) that have decided to ignore this code.
One Meade Blogging Guidelines
- Use care to avoid disclosing any information that is confidential
or proprietary to the company or to any third party where proprietary or confidential information has been disclosed to Meade.
- Make it clear that the views expressed in the blog are yours alone and do not represent the views of Meade.
- Ask your manager if you have questions about what is appropriate to include in your blog post.
- Always be respectful of the company and its employees, customers, partners and competitors in your comments or postings.
- Understand when the company asks that topics not be discussed for confidentiality or legal compliance reasons and that
not all comments or contributions will be posted onto the blog. Do not take this personally.
- Ensure that your blogging activity does not interfere with your work commitments.
- Negative comments or offensive language or pictures will not be posted and should not be submitted.
- When using the “One Meade Blog”, Meade employees are responsible for what they post and are expected to comply with
the company’s anti-harassment and professional conduct policies. Please consult the Meade Employee Manual should you have
questions regarding these policies. Violation of these policies through “One Meade Blog” may result in disciplinary action.
- Meade employees may not create personal blogs using the company’s technology or equipment. If Meade employees maintain
a personal blog on a home computer, neither the employee nor the blog may be identified as being affiliated with Meade.
- Online Social media encompasses a broad sweep of online activity, all of which is trackable and traceable and may be
discoverable in litigation. These networks include not only blogs you respond or write to, but social networks. When using
“One Meade Blog”, Meade employees are responsible for what they post and are expected to comply with the company’s anti-harassment
and professional conduct policies and to use the same care and diligence when engaging in social networking as they do when engaging
in other correspondence and communication with clients or contacts.
- Under no circumstances may Meade employees
