Blogging is hazardous to your work
A stewardess from Delta Airlines has been grounded over blogging about her worklife. She started blogging in January this years as this helped her over the death of her mother (interesting reason to start a blog, right?).
Over time, her blogging developed into a semi-fictional report and that is how she called her blog Queen of Sky (queenofsky.journalspace.com). She didn’t mention her employer’s name, however, showed herself in uniform. Apparently, there also was no policy about blogging in her workplace – which is normal, of course, since blogging is relatively new – long around but only now spreading somewhat exponentially.
A director of the law and technology programme at the University of Dayton, said personal websites can be hazardous for both employers and their employees followed by the incredible statement that “you have to remember that as an employee, you don't have total free speech anymore”.
This follows another high-profile dismissal of Joyce Park, a Web developer at Friendster in the middle of this year.
She hadn’t posted much about Friendster, only about improvements that she made to the site itself and stated after the dismissal from the company that this “is especially ironic because Friendster, of course, is a company that is all about getting people to reveal information about themselves”.
Can both dismissal be seen as a failure of companies to understand the power of blogs? News about such dismissals spread quickly - showing the power of word of mouth and the independence and interactivity of Internet users
In Ross case, bloggers called for termination of friendster account to protest - some are now saying that they believe Delta's reputation has been spoilt.
By (Asia Business Consulting)
Over time, her blogging developed into a semi-fictional report and that is how she called her blog Queen of Sky (queenofsky.journalspace.com). She didn’t mention her employer’s name, however, showed herself in uniform. Apparently, there also was no policy about blogging in her workplace – which is normal, of course, since blogging is relatively new – long around but only now spreading somewhat exponentially.
A director of the law and technology programme at the University of Dayton, said personal websites can be hazardous for both employers and their employees followed by the incredible statement that “you have to remember that as an employee, you don't have total free speech anymore”.
This follows another high-profile dismissal of Joyce Park, a Web developer at Friendster in the middle of this year.
She hadn’t posted much about Friendster, only about improvements that she made to the site itself and stated after the dismissal from the company that this “is especially ironic because Friendster, of course, is a company that is all about getting people to reveal information about themselves”.
Can both dismissal be seen as a failure of companies to understand the power of blogs? News about such dismissals spread quickly - showing the power of word of mouth and the independence and interactivity of Internet users
In Ross case, bloggers called for termination of friendster account to protest - some are now saying that they believe Delta's reputation has been spoilt.
By (Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 11:07 am
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