Blog to Blog Post #1: Becoming Blogophobia or Embracing the Blog
Blogging has become a powerful communication medium day by day. Thank for this class and my professor Alex Brown, I got into blog recently. Blogging is a new world to me and I am still trying to figure it out. This article, Warning: Your clever little blog could get you fired was shocking to me.
Peter Whitney got fired because of his blog, "A boy, a dream, a box of muffin mix" because some notes about his friends, his life and his job. To me his blog is just like a diary, but the only difference is that Peter publish it, everybody can read it and he does not care people read about his life.
What happened to Peter, do you think it is a lesson to all the bloggers that we should stop blogging? Did Peter stop blogging because he got fired? Of course not.
Blog is not totally new. We have been using message board for years for opinions and resources. Blog is just a new form of message board in the 21st century. With the increase of individual bloggers day by day, many companies are embracing blog as their new model for business. Business week just lauched their own blog, of course, it causes various "Cheers And Sneers For The Blogosphere".
I learned from my classmate David Gong's Pennsylvania tourism blogs that his company is using blog for the promotion of tourism. However, his company uses filter to monitor and censor its blog for some legal issues. It is still easy for monitoring the company blog. Most concern lies how to monitor personal blogs of individuals inside or outside the company 24 hours a day. Blogger can blog away company's project, new products and some insider information.
maybe a potiential way to have an open dialogue with the customer, but some harm to the business can be done in short term. Any kind of information leak can cause damage to the company. But do not become blogophobic. As one of the telecommunications and technology lawyer says, "The law is trying to catch up with the technology. This is like what we saw a few years ago with employers passing polices about e-mail. Now we're seeing it with Web logs."
Blog maybe a potiential way to have an open dialogue with the customer, but some harm to the business can be done in short term.
posted by Junko @ 11:53 AM
2 Comments:
Hey Junko,
I have to say that my reactions to people getting fired over blogging was not really surprise. The web is a peculiar thing. Writing comments on a blog about someone you know or about your work is not the same as making that particular comment to say, someone on the seat beside you on the bus. Writing a blog is "publishing" in a new way. It would be nice, as we discussed in class, if there were clear cut rules, guidelines and protections in place but those things are still evolving. Caution and prudence are the guidposts we should walk between when using this new medium (and crossing our fingers probably won't hurt either) because "anything you say, can and will be used against you".
Good article find!
Anything you blog, can be used to against you. Scary. However, imagine Martha Stewart had her own blog, it would have save lot of tax money to prosecute her.
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