Do you have a corporate blogging policy? Before embarking on your blogging journey, you should consider the “dos” and “don’ts” of blogging from both a company and a blogosphere point of view.
Here are some ideas for you:
- Employees/bloggers must abide by non-disclosure agreements or confidentiality policies.
- Employees/bloggers must be aware of company policies governing use of corporate identity (logos, etc.) apply
- Employees/bloggers cannot make discriminatory, libelous, etc., comments when discussing the company, its employees and competitors
- Employees/bloggers must comply with other company policies (e.g., anti-harrassment rules)
- The company should reserve the right to discipline employees/bloggers who violate any of the corporate policy
More Corporate Blogging Policy Examples
(Note that these examples may discuss both external blogging and employees who blog on their own.)
- Feedster Corporate Blogging Policy
- Thomas Nelson Blogging Guidelines
- Plaxo Public Internet Communication Policy
- Hill & Knowlton Blogging policies and guidelines
- Yahoo Employee Blog Guidelines (pdf)
- Blogging@IBM
- Groove Networks
- Harvard Law School
- Sun Microsystems
- Robert Scoble’s The Corporate Weblog Manifesto