You've Been Dooced!

The corporate world has a thorn on it’s side, this thorn is known as employee blogs.There’s a stigma attached to blogging about one’s workplace and we’ve seen a few of those bloggers outcome. Heather Armstrong worked at a dot-com startup company where she blogged about her work under the pseudonym of “Dooce”. She was later fired when her employer found out she was writing about the company. She later coined the term “Dooced” as a worker being fired for blogging about their work. There has been a sleuth of bloggers who’ve been “Dooced” like when Google employee Mark Jen was fired for blogging about Google or otherwise known as the Google guy who got dooced.

Apple doesn’t have a policy about blogging about their work as long as no inside information is revealed. People are now debating whether Apple should encourage, or even permit its employees to blog and how much freedom should bloggers allow their commenters?

I believe that Apple should not let their employees blog about Apple. There’s way too many pitfalls of blogging about work and commenters should be out of the question. When you blog about work you take the risk of leaking something. The ramifications of blogging about one workplace are too great and I believe that all companies should make it policy not to write about their workplace online. One day, you write about Joe from the next cubicle over about his sub-par workmanship, another day you may be collecting unemployment checks ‘cause you been Dooced. You may not even know what hit you.