Justin Patten's Blog

Another week goes by and another study is released which highlights the strength of social media.

Last week, a survey by Ann Majchrzak, Christian Wagner and Dave Yates illustrated  that corporate internal wikis really make a difference within an organisation. It can be accessed here, and a take on it is provided by Hemma of Headshift.

One of the main fears of corporate blogging is the risk to reputation and the damage that employee bloggers can do to their own company.
 
If a firm does choose to allow employees to blog in work time, it is my experience that many legal and HR advisors advocate having a restrictive and detailed blogging policy to protect the firm.
 
A danger with this approach is that if you set up such a blogging policy, it will become so tight that no employee would dare to blog...