Legal issues and blogging
The author (not certain WHO it's - the name Klosek is mentioned at the end) believes companies ought to be cautious of blogs for variety of reasons. the explanations to be cautious of blogs include: there ar potential intellectual-property problems to think about, blogs will expose a corporation to defamation claims, and, a web logger WHO discloses personal data concerning co-workers on a corporation blog, or on his own web log throughout company time, might also open the organization and himself to unwritten misconduct actions for invasion of privacy.
Given the potential risks and liabilities of blogging, firms ought to take the subsequent steps:
• Develop and implement policies establishing the terms and conditions beneath that workers are allowable to web log
• give coaching as a part of the blogging policy
• Appoint a company representative to field worker blogging queries
• Inform workers of the results of violating blogging policies
• Develop and implement a system for observance the company's blogs for content that violates terms of use, worker policies or applicable laws
• make sure that any personal data gathered via company blogs is handled in compliance with applicable privacy laws and company privacy policies
• Develop and implement a policy for holding and archiving company web log content.
