Time to crack down on tech at work?
15 June 2006
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Many clients ask about how to ‘control’ employee blogging. The level of fear is somewhat surprising, but indicative of the lack of understanding a lot of corporates have for this technology. In C/net’s Perspectives, Eric J Sinrod, a partner at Duane Morris, gives some good pointers about what to include in a blogging policy along with guidance on the use of other social technologies in the workplace.
I know how much time blogging can eat up. It’s 30 minutes a day minimum, and often much more if you want to do it well. I’d be interested in hearing about how others have helped clients formulate blogging policies.











Charlene Li has a good writeup on this which should provide some useful background for your clients, as well as some useful links to other blue chip corporate blogging policies. http://forrester.typepad.com/charleneli/2004/11/blogging_policy.html
Most blogging requires web access, so corporate ‘web usage policies’ could be adapted to cover what is and what is not acceptable.
I would urge those responsible for policy to gain a greater understanding of the medium before leaping in.
It’s very easy to create an anonymous blog – better to keep your bloggers on the team rather than alienate them with a heavy handed or too authoritarian approach?
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