Tuesday, May 6, 2008
JO interns and blogging
Liz Allen has set some guidelines or ideas for her new summer interns and thier blogs. I think all the princples she mentioned are very important but the most important and one I think all bloggers should follow is if you can't say it out loud or to the person your referring to you should not blog about it. It is obvious that interns shouldn't write about anything that may hurt the company or put them in a bad light. What do you think? What do you think the guidelines should be a summer intern in a newsroom?
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I think if you were to blog on a company website it would have to be professional, (not personal i.e. social content such as Facebook, MySpace etc.)Some companies have policies for posting to company blogs so my advice would be to adhere to the company rules and ask for a copy of the blog policy. We heard from Kristine Kinzer this semester on the ethical issues in blogging and the need for self-censorship. We had the case of the Washington Post part-time staffer being fired for unprofessional posts on a less than politically correct alternative website. Bottom line? Don't post something that would be embarrassing to your company, your family or yourself.
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