Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Getting fired for blogging on the increase

WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff quotes a survey of large US companies:

Nearly 1 in 5 companies (17.3%) has disciplined an employee for violating blog or message board policies in the last year. 7.1% of companies fired an employee for such infractions. Ouch. 10% of public companies investigated the exposure of material financial information via a blog or message board posting in the past year.
Truth be told I thought the principles of blogging were better understood than these statistics imply. A small investment in "Naked Conversations" sounds like a good idea for both the companies and the bloggers.

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