Vi skrev om CBC i Canada som ville forby ansatte å blogge uten tillatelse først. Nå har det kommet en klargjøring fra CBC. Sjefredaktør Esther Enkin sier til Inside CBC (CBCs offisielle blogg):
The document you refer to and was distributed to some staff is an early draft of proposed policies. Senior management had asked that they be revised last April, and they will be reviewed again. When questions arose about how to deal with blogging, the document was inadvertently passed on.
Litt storm i et vannglass, men hva hvis disse reglene faktisk ble vedtatt? Og det er interessant å se hvilken prosess som ligger bak slike regler. CBC-ansatt Paul Gorbould sier følgende:
I really, really resent the way this document came about. To wit: it was crafted behind closed doors, in secret, without any consultation with the people who know and care most about it, without any heed to industry best practices, without any transparency or public input. That’s a pre-lockout mindset, and it coughed up a Web 1.0 policy that makes everyone look foolish. And that, in my opinion, is more damaging than anything any CBC blogger has ever said or done.
Flere bedrifter burde følge IBMs eksempel, de sendte ut denne beskjeden til 320 000 ansatte for rundt to år siden:
IBM today is publishing an announcement on its Intranet site encouraging all 320,000+ employees world wide to consider engaging actively in the practice of «blogging». This move follows several years of persistent grassroots efforts by an informal community of IBM bloggers.
Og IBMs «blogging guidelines» (pdf-fil) kan fint overføres til norske forhold.
Hvordan er det i din bedrift? Har du som ansatt lov til å uttrykke dine egne meninger på fritiden, uten at ledelsen i bedriften er informert om det først?