A Blogging FAQ that gets it wrong

Michael Gartenberg | March 08, 2005, 01:47 PM

I totally agree with Robert here. Bet on your boss reading your blog eventually and perhaps his or her boss as well. Anonymous blogging isn't going to do the trick either. If what you're writing has any depth, it's pretty easy to figure out who you are. It doesn't matter if there's policy or not. If you're about to blog about your business, this is one case where I don't recommend to ask forgiveness and not permission. Blog readership may still be pretty low overall but what goes around, does come around. All it takes is one email with a link. As for business folks out there, you have policies on email usage and web surfing, so you do have a blogging policy for employees and everyone's on the same page, right?

CNET News.com: FAQ: Blogging on the job. I disagree with something on the first page of that article. The odds of your boss reading your blog are NOT slim anymore. More and more bosses are figuring out that by using an RSS News Aggregator and Pubsub.comthat you can keep up to date on what ANYONE says about your company on any of the eight million blogs. In fact, this is so efficient that usually I see new things within minutes of them being written now. My last three job interviews all had people in them who had extensively read my blog and who had Google'd on my name.

Do NOT assume that no one will read your little "readerless" blog. The long tail is wagging and bosses are figuring this stuff out in big numbers. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]