What's Your Name Again?
Librarian writes a book about the "interesting" people at her library; a place she's worked for fifteen years. Doesn't use her real name, the real name of patrons. Tells, apparently, the truth, but in a humorous manner.
Gets fired.
And people wonder why bloggers use aliases.
My personal work/blog/write is simple, simple to me, at least. I don't use my last time, and shy away from identifying my employer. I don't blog on work time (exception: when my employers view it as part of my job, such as my contributions to the YALSA blog). I write as if everyone I know was reading what I write (friends, enemies, bosses, people I used to work with, etc.)
What rules do you follow for blogging? Are they personal (like most of mine) or imposed by work?
Thanks to lisnews for the article.
Labels: rules for blogging
2 Comments:
At 4:25 PM,
Bobbi Newman said…
I don't have any work restrictions on my blog. I'm open with my boss and I use my judgement if I think I need to check with him about a topic, I do. One time he has asked me not to blog about something, I didn't.
My personal rules are I dont' blog about anything I wouldn't want my coworkers, patrons, current employer or future employer to read.
I poppped over and scanned the story, using a picture of the current library you work at on the cover of a book you claim is fiction that is unflattering to the characters, shows poor judgement.
At 6:24 PM,
Liz B said…
In talking about writing outside of work, I realized this rule works well for me: If I wouldn't say it to your face, then I won't blog it.
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