Social Media Guidelines
A few random guidelines (in no particular order) on the “voice” to use for Volkis social media and what we’re trying to achieve:
- Use a casual tone rather than corporate one. Write as though you’re speaking to someone face-to-face
- Respect the audience’s time
- No post is better than an “okay” post
- Australian & New Zealand audience focus… (so, for example, mentioning hot weather in January makes sense. American holidays don’t make sense)
- Avoid pushing a political or religious agenda onto others
- Our focus is technical, offensive security
- Speak from an attacker’s mindset / attacker’s perspective
- Use the word “hacker”! It’s not a slur. But avoid the term “ethical hacker”
- Pointed educational content is great
- Hacking stories are great
- Maintain empathy, security is hard (e.g. Humans are NOT the weakest link in security)
The culture of Volkis and who we are (this will move to it’s own page soon):
- “Hacker culture”
- Question the status quo
- Rebellious
- Creative
- Call out bullshit
- Welcoming (not gate keeping)
- “Check your ego”
- Safe to be yourself - free to express yourself
- Casual, not corporate
- Technical offensive security focus at heart
- Always learning, always teaching
- Empathy for each other and clients
- Do cool shit together
- Look after each other
- Not take ourselves too seriously, but be proud of work we do
- Safe to make mistakes
- We do not project political opinions or religious values onto others
The voice and content used should match the above.