Lynne, no one has ever really been fired for blogging.

thanks hashim for sharing anil's post - but that's clearly what i meant - i'm not concerned about my employer finding out i have a blog, but i wouldn't want to be caught speaking infavorably about my employer in a public sphere - that's the kind of stuff i deal with head-to-head - i didn't mean to apply a negative connotation to blogging - i suppose i should change the title then too, huh?

is blogging about your job worth losing your job?

I think I made my point pretty clear with my "Reality Blogging" post. Not only is writing negatively about your job rarely "worth it" but unless you are a very good writer - which, most bloggers are not - it makes for very pedestrian content.

wow - thanks for sharing j. - see i've been missing all these wondeful discussions going on b/c i've been into my life lately and not this online self that i've become - but anyway - these discussions at your blog, prime's blog, and anil's blog are to me what blogging/online journaling is really about

on another note, i agree that if i talked about my job, my relationship, etc., even if i wrote the narratives really well, would be of interest only to me, besides i've never been one to be public about my life - not face-to-face, so then why here

also, b/c of what i do professionally, sometimes i think if i talked about it all the time, it would come off egotistical, even if i were discussing truths - but mostly i feel like who cares where i've been, who i met, etc.

we've definitely had this convo before, huh lynne? i have all kinds of pictures i'd love to share with my readers, but i can't because sometimes there's also some corporate exec in the picture with me. hell, i never even say the name of my company or my client on my site. that's a definite no no.

but, if you do decide to tred in those muddy waters, my advice is, use an alias, and post no pictures of yourself on your site. that way, it becomes a lot more difficult to link the information on your site, to you, the employee at your place of business.

you have to be savvy about it. Some people blog about their job and that makes them powerful. Think Scoble at Microsoft and Jeremy Z at Yahoo. They both have said some really negative things about their jobs and even the products their job puts out. That landed Jeremy a promotion, and Scoble is a star.

There's also people who have gotten hired for blogging. So really, what factor is blogging is in the equation? It's more about living up to the standards set by your company.

I'm nitpicking at the words, but I think the nuance is important.

It's like when people were saying "50 Cent and Kanye blew up because they flooded the mixtape scene with joints to build a buzz." Wrong! They blew up because of good music and compelling backstories. That's why the mixtapes mattered. Jadakiss also hit the mixtape circuit but hasn't gone platinum. Chingy never released a mixtape but sold 3 mil.

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