Yahoo Tries To Set The Standards With Online Style Guide

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has spent much of the last year focusing on its media properties, will have a printed style guide to go along with the effort next week. The company says The Yahoo Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing and Creating Content for the Digital World will come out in print July 6. A free, online version, which includes online style points and basic articles on subjects, such as SEO and user-interface writing, is already live.

Yahoo says in its announcement that “there hasn’t been a comprehensive manual of online editorial best practices to guide writers and editors.” The AP Stylebook, which is the equivalent for print media, appears to have noticed a gap too. The publication included new “social media guidelines” in its 2010 edition, but on its website, it is still prominently soliciting suggestions for a forthcoming section on “new media and social media.”  More