Good Corporate Blogging Rules To Follow

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Posted on 02/21/2006 at 11:12:59 AM by Zach Wilson

Mr. Gammel found a good aggregate reference to corporate blogging policies (Yahoo!, IBM, Plaxo and Sun) and posted it for us on the ASAE technology listserves. To me, these rules seem pretty intuitive. They are all basically saying don't do anything stupid.

be nice (i.e. don't criticize your organization or your manager)
don't give away company secrets/information
don't blog if you have work to do
abide by existing company rules.

Everybody has rules for something. So if you are a daily blogger and blogging on a personal blog and not a company blog, don't abuse it! These basic rules should be simple enough to follow.

2 Comments

Posted Feb 23, 2006 8:29 AM by Easton Ellsworth

I've got a section at my site devoted to corporate blogging policies. Having a policy is a no-brainer - without it, you can run into all sorts of legal problems.

Posted Mar 06, 2006 8:26 AM by Anne L

Intuitive, maybe. But many people who blog from work easily forget these things! When you see your blog as your online journal, I think it doesn't hurt to remind someone that they aren't just speaking for themselves if they can be linked to their company!

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