{"id":122,"date":"2005-12-02T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/?p=122"},"modified":"2005-12-03T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T23:57:20","slug":"ibm-and-webblogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2005\/12\/02\/ibm-and-webblogging\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM and Webblogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually post about work here because generally I like to keep my professional life and my personal life separate, but I found this interesting.  I was taking care of some administrative tasks yesterday on IBM&#8217;s internal site and stumbled across IBM&#8217;s official policy for their employees participating in blogs.  What I found interesting is that the policy is surprisingly progressive when it comes to blogs.  Within a couple boundaries (speaking for yourself and not for the company, doesn&#8217;t interfere with your responsibilties, nothing rude, offensive or hateful, not giving insider info, not revealing confidential info, not representing the company to potential customers, etc.), the policy is very open-ended, encouraging their employees to participate in webblogging.  I found that refreshing, given how many companies have actually shut off sites like blogspot.com and xanga.com to their employees.  I guess it makes sense if IBM wants to be a major player in the Internet that their employees should be a visible presence on it.<\/p>\n<p>I guess now would be a good time to state that the views and opinions on my site are mine and not at all representative of IBM or IBM management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess I ought to put up a disclaimer&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2005\/12\/02\/ibm-and-webblogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}