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1. un papier on August 13, 2005 1:16 PM writes...
How about people blogging at work?
Permalink to CommentAn interpretation of Technorati's results suggests that people spend time blogging at work.
2. Jim Ware on August 15, 2005 9:30 PM writes...
This is important stuff. Anyone interested in Pat Kane's work should also be reading Dan Pink's new book A Whole New Mind (Dan's website/blog is at www.danpink.com).
One of my favorite quotes from Kane's book:
Permalink to Comment3. regina on August 16, 2005 4:00 AM writes...
Rags S. from un papier and I have been having a bit of an off-line conversation that I wanted to bring back on-line. I thanked him for his comment above and mentioned how I thought that lots of employees are blogging at work and all the more reasons to give employees the chance to blog like Sun, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, etc. Here are his comments back to me:
Rags: I think I am somewhat cynical about people
blogging at work. A disclaimer, " No I am not
part of
the management, I am just another peon".
According to Technorati's numbers the first thing
people
seem to be doing at work is to post a blog
article. This probably is on top of the usual
surfing activities like
reading personal mails and news. Now one should
also assume that blog posters spend time reading
other blogs as well.
1. Is it reasonable to say that posting to blogs
takes time away from productive work?
-- I would say yes.
2. Is blogging a form of productive work?
-- Debatable and highly context sensitive.
Would you prefer your software developer to be
implementing your
innovation or writing blog about it? How
about posting on what they think as ridiculous
corporate policies? How about
on " Greatness of President W" or on
"Liberals are the sanest lot around"? How do you
fairly treat two bloggers at work?
3. How do you then distinguish between two
posters? Is posting technical matters productive
and allowed but not on politics?
4. You mention blogs at Sun, IBM, Intel and
Microsoft. This is a little different in that the
employers set up a corporate
blog and encourage posting. These blogs are
public and uncensored as well. Do they expect
now every employee to be the spokesperson
for the company?
5. If employees are already posting to their own
blogs hosted elsewhere, when an employer supports
in-house blogging will these
bloggers give up on their external blogging
or add corporate blogging on top?
6. In a Business Week article on The Business of
Blogging they quoted that Sun's Sales people were
able to
close a deal whenever Jonathan Schwartz their COO
posted to the Sun blog. Can we say that about
blogs of
every other Sun engineer and manager? What
useful content are most of Sun bloggers providing
anyway?
7. While it seems it is acceptable for an
High-Tech employee to be blogging at work, what
would you say about the company's
low-tech employees ? Is there fairness?
I think most of these questions do not have
simple answers. In my opinion employers should
not let all their employees
blog on the clock. They make it part of the job
description of a few to be blogging.
Your thoughts?
-Rags
My Thoughts on the topic are myriad. I recently read someone's blog and she said that if her comments were turning into paragraphs she actually needed to write another post. So that is what I will do to address Rag's question and post.
http://unpapier.blogspot.com/2005/08/blogging-while-on-clock.html
Permalink to Comment4. Pat R. on July 15, 2006 8:24 PM writes...
Feudalism remnants like the patriarchy can lease the residues of master/servant protocol that produces oppressive work environments, especially in view of a nation widely diverse in race, ethnicity and gender.
Employee perspective might be used in a number of ways to make workplaces friendly to all employees, reduce harassment claims, prevent danger of future violence, and/or to identify the needs of employees that may increase loyalty and dedication. It might also be used to judge the overall climate of well managed firms where management or shareholders can use to assess the quality of the work environment, and senior or supervisory personnel, or even CEO's, since healthy companies consist of more than great earnings histories. It may also identify disgruntled employees who can be helped with work or personal problems that may prevent smaller problems from getting larger.
Used properly, and in good faith, anonymously, all employment places can be fun, and play dates, every day.
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