Muslim Professional Network
Last updated 08/25/2022
Our commitment to members
We want everyone to feel welcome and safe in the Muslim Professional Network community regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, political stance, or technology choices.Accordingly, we will not tolerate harassment of our members in any form; not on Slack, not on Twitter or other online channels, and not in person at email industry events or otherwise.
What constitutes harassment?
Harassment includes invasion of personal space, exclusionary jokes and comments, and sexual language and imagery — but this list is non-exhaustive. If you make anyone feel uncomfortable or unwelcome, you will be asked to leave. If someone feels harassed or excluded by your words or actions, those words or actions constitute harassment or exclusion. Your intent is not a factor. All Muslim Professional Network Slack participants are accountable for their own behavior. If you’ve behaved badly elsewhere, that may count against you here because of the effect it has on other members.
**What about “trolling”?**Posting messages to provoke controversy or emotional response — whether for amusement or another motivation — will not be tolerated. Our #random channel is off-topic by design, but should remain positive and not polarizing.
Chatham House Rule All members must adhere to the Chatham House Rule:*When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.*What this means in practice is that no identifying personal or company information leaves the Slack group — not for an article, not for sales, nor any other reason. (The sole exception is if you ask for and receive explicit permission from each person involved.) While our community is semi-public, this rule allows our members to share a little more freely and openly. Can I post about my webinar, conference, tradeshow, etc.?If you're hosting a conference or webinar or similar, you're welcome to post once per event about it in #email-events, but please refrain from repeated posts about the same event unless asked specific follow-up questions.
**Are there any other don’ts?**As we are an industry-focused community, many of our members have a strong business interest behind their participation. This is okay as long as you are transparent about your affiliations and motives. Our members are often supportive of business-related or promotional messages if the people behind them are also general contributors to the community.However, to protect both our members’ experiences and our community’s reputation, we do have a few rules:
Don’t send unsolicited direct messages for sales, marketing, research, or other business purposes
DM as you’d email: without spammingIf there’s a message you want to send to multiple people, find the most appropriate channel and post there instead
Don’t post about a company, product, or service to which you have an undisclosed affiliation or business relationship
For a custom emoji of your company’s logo to use as your “Slack status”, please message admin Zohaib Rattu
Don’t post undisclosed referral linksReferrals are fine as long as you make it clear what people are clicking
Don’t spam our community with links or content
Share to be helpful, not promotional;
Muslim Professional Network is not a marketing channel
Factors like not participating aside from posting links or including tracking parameters on URLs may lead to messages or users being removedAnyone may post promotional messages and links in #shamelessplugs
Don’t respond to a post unthreaded