What is your company policy on blogs? Any of your co-workers being encouraged or fired based on that?
Do you guys even know what your company policy on blogs is?
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when you talk about blogs, I'm assuming you mean personal ones?
if so, I haven't heard of a specific policy for blogs per say, but would think the same policy that applies to chatting and browsing non-work related websites applies here as well.
I maintain professional blogs for my projects though and share those regularly with my colleagues as a way of sharing my experiences and develop an informal community of practice. Often then at the end of the project, this gets formalized a little more into a summary document that's circulated around the dept.
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BTW, the thread was inspired by the following:
Blogging Poses New Workplace Issues
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4664476
Talk of the Nation, May 24, 2005 · Blogging is a favorite pastime for many tech-savvy writers. But when the subject of the blogs veers into the workplace, employers have been less enthusiastic. Los Alamos Labs is red-faced after an employee revealed security concerns in a blog. And Delta has fired a flight attendant for leggy photos on her web journal.
Guests:
Mark Jen, software producer fired from Google after posting information about the company in his weblog
John Palfrey, director of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society
Michael Wiley, director of New Media for General Motors
Re: Company policy on Blogs
^ aah - so that's what you mean... now it makes sense.
I suppose this trend will instigate new changes in Non-Disclosure-Agreements and Innovation, Privacy & Proprietary Information contracts that one has to sign at the beginning of their employment with a lot of organizations.
I haven't heard of any such changes at my workplace just yet.
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we used to have a wiki in our research group.. more like a team blog