Comments on: CNN Blogging Guidelines

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:47:16 +0000

@Pat Agree 100% on common sense.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:37:34 +0000

My rule of thumb with employees ask the following questions:
**Are they sharing information about the company?
**Are they doing something illegal?
**Are they blogging against the company?
**Are they letting people know they work for the company?

There are other questions to ask, but companies do need to let employees have their own lives. Employees need to have commonsense.

Pat

By: Mike Schinkel

Mike Schinkel — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:40:02 +0000

Well, now we know why I and almost everyone I know will never, ever consider working for CNN (and they *are* right down the street from me!)

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By: hrwench

hrwench — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:40:57 +0000

This is the most ridiculous policy I have ever read in my life. It goes against human nature.

What does CNN NOT cover?

By: laurie ruettimann

laurie ruettimann — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:22:07 +0000

Also, I just want to say that there’s room for a common sense blogging policy.

This piece of shit policy from CNN is not it.

By: laurie ruettimann

laurie ruettimann — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:21:21 +0000

@kellyO I’m with you. No opinion, no expression of thought, no vocalization on anything covered by CNN. You can’t even express how you feel about a squirrel on water skis? Seems redonkulous to me!

@hrMinion I can’t say that I blame you for being anonymous. I think it’s a personal decision to out yourself. Lance had excellent thoughts on his blog, the other day.

@deb It might be another reason for you to stay out of corporate america and continue to be your own boss. You set your own hours, you have your own rules, and you blog. It’s the best of everything!!

By: deb

deb — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:45:07 +0000

that cracks me up!

i’ve never blogged anonymously. then again, i’ve never actually spoken about the company i worked for. i’ve never talked about specific people or even identifiable events about where i worked.

what bothers me is the increasing blurring of the lines between professional and personal life. if i work for you, there are definitely expectations of my conduct and behavior, especially at work. but there is also a line where my life is my own and just because i work for you does not mean you own me.

i can understand that a news organization wants to do all it can to keep at least an appearance of objectivity. but this really is going a bit far. (and we’re all smart enough to know that this objectivity doesn’t always exist anyway.)

and yeah. this is yet another reason for me to add to my list of reasons to be glad to be out of HR.

all the best!
deb

By: HR Minion

HR Minion — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:16:15 +0000

My company has a Guideline for Social Media, as they put it. It’s not bad, certainly not anything like CNN’s, and they offer tips on how to be an effective blogger. How many policies have that? And yet I’m still anonymous.

By: Kelly O

Kelly O — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:36:41 +0000

So I can safely interpret this as those who work for a news outlet are not allowed to go to campaign functions, express opinions on ANYTHING CNN does cover, would cover in the future, might cover if they decide “hey so-in-so is blogging about this, let’s cover it” or whatever. And if you do blog about something like that, you are SOL because it’s in the employee manual that is hopefully not written by the same people who wrote this memo.

(I think those are the two most running-on sentences I’ve written in some time. Must be the memo getting to me.)