Sunday, March 2, 2003|
MrG: Obstacles to Business Journaling
"In the personal blog space, we all have equal power, but in the business space, we do not. In the wilderness of the blog, I can criticize Cory or Doc, they could criticize me (if they knew I existed ;) and it's all taken with a grain of good fun and fair play, even where the warbloggers get bitter and vicious. No one has any control over anyone else, we all speak from a relatively safe distance... In a business, this is not the case. A manager can have you fired for comments even, as Dive Into Mark notes (I think it was Mark), the simple admission that once-upon-a-time you had a problem." I complete agree, Gary. If freedom of speech belongs to those who own the presses, then the majority of those in a corporate context emphatically do not own the presses. No amount of yummy RSS sauce or refried blog tools are going to change that fundamental fact. There's a Japanese saying to the effect that "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down". Substitute blog for nail and you get the idea. Over time, all organizations develop a cultural immune system that seeks, first and foremost, to protect the status quo. This immune system doesn't take kindly to viruses of any kind, whether or not they might ultimately be beneficial. 10:34:39 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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