Advantages and Disadvantages of Owning a Blog
Owning a personal Blog is pretty trouble free as long as you do not do anything
stupid like slander or libel another person or make a threat of any kind. And it
makes sense to not do anything dumb like bad mouth a high ranking government
official, you just never know; Free Speech aside, you must consider your
actions.
Now days many Blogs are used in business and there are things each Blog Owner
should know and perhaps such information can help guide the rule-making of such
systems. Below are some research links you might read up on if you want to know
all about it.
There are certain rules that the administrators of a Blog should consider as to
not violate regulatory rules as the company or an individual in the company uses
the Blog to reach out to customers, vendor team partners or in this case article
authors. These internal policies are much more important than the Blob Rules for
the public to post.
Too many rules can bog down a blog! Nevertheless, rules are necessary for all
the participants so that the Blog sheds a positive light on the organization
rather than a negative or disheartening one, which can cause flaming or place a
negative impact on the company's brand name or hurt the feelings of a customer
or otherwise loyal team member or vendor.
Thus oversight for Corporate Blogs, which this one is albeit a "Family or ‘Team'
Type Company" must be a priority for the company; monitoring the Blog is
crucial. Consider also the ramifications of such if this great communication
tool is not watched carefully.
Although in reality most Blogs are easily monitored and provide real-time
feedback for the Nucleus of the Online Company Website as well as an excellent
Distribution venue on the Internet for getting out information, proper
monitoring is essential.
The monitoring may prevent conflict and legal issues well enough, yet without
some sort of policy the company could be allowing misconduct or even inciting
verbal online digital warfare as attacks of personal character get out of hand.
So these are serious points of contention of course? Perhaps computerized rules
can be set up for this purpose;
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/pdf/SS0603SongD.pdf
There has been much research on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Blogs;
http://www.iacis.org/iis/2006_iis/PDFs/Wood_Behling_Haugen.pdf
http://huckboyd.jmc.ksu.edu/symposium/XII/Boudreau%20Speaking%20on%20Blogging.pdf
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