Creating Corporate Blogging Policies

Do you have a corporate blogging policy? Before embarking on your blogging journey, you should consider the “dos” and “don’ts” of blogging from both a company and a blogosphere point of view.

Here are some ideas for you:

1. Employees/bloggers must abide by non-disclosure agreements or confidentiality policies.
2. Employees/bloggers must be aware of company policies governing use of corporate identity (logos, etc.) apply
3. Employees/bloggers cannot make discriminatory, libelous, etc., comments when discussing the company, its employees and competitors
4. Employees/bloggers must comply with other company policies (e.g., anti-harrassment rules)
5. The company should reserve the right to discipline employees/bloggers who violate any of the corporate policy

More Corporate Blogging Policy Examples
(Note that these examples may discuss both external blogging and employees who blog on their own.)

• Feedster Corporate Blogging Policy
• Thomas Nelson Blogging Guidelines
• Plaxo Public Internet Communication Policy
• Hill & Knowlton Blogging policies and guidelines
• Yahoo Employee Blog Guidelines (pdf)
• Blogging@IBM
• Groove Networks
• Harvard Law School
• Sun Microsystems
• Robert Scoble’s The Corporate Weblog Manifesto