Why Employees Should Not Blog on Corporate Sites
Simon Phipps in his post Edited Out of History talks about how IBM’s former Fellow, “Father of Websphere” Don Ferguson, is already in being airbrushed out of history with his blog redirecting to the home page for IBM’s dW bloggers.
Now that is sad. This is no way to manage a corporate blog, or to encourage corporate blogging. IBM sure can do better than that. Frankly, one fails to see how his views could have suddenly became irrelevant now that he has left IBM for Microsoft. Shame on IBM.
If you have a blog on the corporate site or were planning to start one, maybe its time to rethink. It’s probably better to have the blog on blogspot or wordpress than leaving to the mercy of people in-charge of the corporate website. Of course, having your domain and hosting is better still :-)
Update: The blog is back :-)
Posted under: Thoughts/Blogging
Tagged with: Blog, corporate blog, corporate blogging, IBM
