Corporate blogging policies

There are legal considerations for bloggers, of course, but what about business blogging policies?

Nancy Flynn of the International Association of Online Communicators suggests 12 best practices.

It's an old post (June 2005), but Fredrik Wackå compared the blogging policies of Feedster, Groove, Hill & Knowlton, IBM, Plaxo, Sun, Thomas Nelson and Yahoo!. A lot of it is common sense, so it's almost more interesting to see the unique elements:

• You can write on company time
• The company's goal in blogging
• You may disagree with the boss
• Stop blogging if the employer requests it
• Reach out to company PR if you're contacted by the media about a blog posting

For a contrarian view, Dennis M. Kennedy in Corante's Between Lawyers column suggests that most companies will already have corporate communications and/or Internet use policies which cover blogging and bloggers adequately.

Does your organization have a specific blogging policy? Anything notable about it?

Comments

[Jenny]

Hey,
Really a nice and informative blog for all the corporate bloggers.Keep it up!