This page contains some really handy links about blogging and blogging policy in an organisational setting. There’s a bunch of useful links to source journals.
This article highlights the dismissal of a Victorian school teacher. The teacher was sacked on various grounds but additional charges were brought against her when she spoke out publicly against the allegations in breach of provisions in her contract. Effectively teachers are gagged from commenting publicly about matters of departmental policy.
A test case for free speech: Australian academic dismissed for opposing falling university standards
A test case for free speech: Australian academic dismissed for opposing falling university standards This article raises questions about the censorship of free speech as a result of the dismissal of a tenured university lecturer as a result of him speaking to the media about falling academic standards. Whilst this may not relate directly to [...]
In Rebecca Blood’s Weblog Ethics, Blood proposes guidelines for the development of a personal blogging policy. It’s worth noting that these same policies could also be used as the spine for a corporate blogging policy, after all ethics are ethics. For the record, Blood’s proposed list includes: 1. Publish as fact only that which you [...]
Here is the PDF to the previous post: Author Konrad Lee
ANTI-EMPLOYER BLOGGING: EMPLOYEE BREACH OF THE DUTY OF LOYALTY AND THE PROCEDURE FOR ALLOWING DISCOVERY OF A BLOGGER’S IDENTITY BEFORE SERVICE OF PROCESS IS EFFECTED This article from the Duke Law and Technology Review suggests that law reform is needed in the area of discovering the identity of employees who create anonymous anti-employer blogs. They [...]
Here’s a few notes on an article relating to privacy concerns and practices in blogging, with references at the bottom of the post. Ongoing authorship. People look for and expect a consistent author and voice of a blog. Archival/permanent nature of posts are exaggerated by RSS feeds which create broadcast copies of blog posts which [...]
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