[Sigia-l] Corporate and personal blogs are indeed public

[Alexander Johannesen]

Alexander wrote:
>> Hell, yes; it reveals that real humans work inside these hard
>> corporate walls.

Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
> Just what does that mean? If those very people blog on say their personal
> lives or bird watching, that'd mean there's no "real humans work inside
> these hard corporate walls"? People are smarter than that and don't need
> blogs to see it.

Well, for some of us who are not as smart as you, we like to
observe this human aspect of corporate life instead of assuming
there is one. I personally don't like to assume anything and
enjoy to see and read for myself how the people are doing inside
the corporations. For nothing else, it satisfy my birdwatching
fetish, but I can tell you that it affects my view of the corps
as well, in terms of trust and good-will. If the corp treats
its people well, then I - being a humanist before capitalist -
will direct my business that way. isn't this obvious, though?

> Some companies have tens of thousands of employees. Are you suggesting 
> that companies create layered bureaucracies to monitor what potentially 
> each one of those employees can say about their job/employer?

Corporations already monitor what we write, but as to how the
internal beurocracy works, I don't know.

>> Like someone else said; where we work and what happens there is a
>> quite natural part of us all and how our society works. The *new*
>> thing is that what we say now gets published and recorded, and
>> that - as I see it - is what the fuzz is about.
>
> Beyond generalities, I have no idea what this really means. Are you
> suggesting that employees' ability to publish their opinion on their
> employer changes the rules of the game?

Changes *what* rules? Of course the ability to publish easier have
some effect to how it all works. Corporations, being huge and often
quite conservative in their ways, will always try censorship first,
because it is an easy knee-jerk way of reacting to things. It doesn't
make it the *best*, though.


Alexander
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