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Employee blogging is a great way to handle communications

One of the best ways to go about handling communicating either with clients or with employees is to use employee blogging. Of course, as with all things it be prudent to have a policy in place that properly controls your employees and what they can blog about. And that holds as true for employees using the company blog as it does for employees using their personal blogs. This is important since the blogosphere is growing at the rate of knots and crosses and any issues to do with employee blogging should be nipped in the bud before it grows out of control.

The biggest problem is that of confidentiality, since there is always the worry that an employee could reveal critical business information to competitors. There are also other downsides such as talking poorly of other employees or even bosses or the company itself. All of this will obviously be directly in contrast with business policies, and while your employee has the right to free speech, using it to slander or say something damaging or libelous is just plain wrong if it hurts your business interests. This is why there is the need to put an employee blogging policy in place.

Monitoring blogs that are put up on the company’s intranet or on the company blog is easier than most other types of “patrolling”, but things can get particularly tricky when it comes to personal blogs. Just how do you control something meant for an external audience? While your employees have the right to say whatever they want, you should put a policy in place that shuts down the spread of any information that is confidential. There’s no reason that an employees attempt at blogging should damage the bottom line of the company. Both business and blogging can co-exist at the same time, and it is up to the employer and the employee to make sure that this is exactly what happens.

Employee blogging is hard to control, especially when it is personal blogging, but it should be controlled before it damages the business’ interests.

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Social media crowd source makes us all lazy as heck

Human beings, by their very nature, are very clever people but they can also be very lazy people. And the internet in its own way is aiding and abetting that, making us lazier than ever and not as smart as we used to be. Our attempts to use social media crowd source mediums have left us a pale shadow the savvy person we used to be, and it is only now that we are waking up and smelling the coffee, asking questions as to how we have been dumbed down.

It’s a combination of Social media crowd source that has made us very lazy. Take Yahoo! Answers for example. I think it’s quite rubbish, but the ability to ask the most inane questions has made us intellectual weaklings and laggards. By asking the crowd for help or for an answer, we are shirking doing the legwork to find out the answers ourselves. Need an opinion on which new restaurant to visit in your vicinity? Why bother walking around the neighborhood or searching for the answers yourself online when you can simply pop the question to the Twitterati (or ‘Tweeps’) and get an answer that way…see what I mean by social media and crowdsourcing making us lazy.

Similarly, when I needed help finding out if Manoj Nigh Shyamalan’s Avatar was a dodo (it was a real stinker, for what it’s worth), I simply asked friends on Facebook about the movie. Who needed to read a review or check out opinions? That’s just too time-consuming. All of the information I’ll ever need is available just a few clicks away, and I don’t even need to click to get there! This is digital laziness at its finest, and good old fashioned is now…well, old fashioned. I remember having to use proper hard-bound encyclopedias first and then Encarta on a CD to do my research for school assignments. I can now picture my kids Googling their homework to get the results easily. Don’t laugh, you know it can happen!

Try not to crowd source next time; Google it and do the research for yourself, it pays not to be lazy.

 It’s a combination of Social media crowd source that has made us very lazy when it comes to seeking out information in this new digital world of ours.

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