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Recent estimates show that almost 20 million blogs permeate the Internet. While many blogs are inherently personal, an increasing number comment on work-related issues—whether known to management or not. Other blogs are officially sanctioned by an organization, as progressive companies buy into the notion that blogging can strengthen relationships with co-workers and clients.

In some cases, the legal ramifications for what is published on a blog may rest on whether the blog is personal or organizational. But these distinctions frequently are not easy to make. Because blogging is simply another form of communication, it is not likely to create a dramatic new legal paradigm. The bigger question for companies to address is how to communicate blogging policies and deal with fallout from potentially troubling content that is published on a blog.

Via [The Business Ledger]

With hundreds of bloggers and thousands of readers the problem is coming to the local working place, as you know writing an article needs a constant effort as much of time, usually, bloggers post their stuff in working hours in the heat of the action, thanks god, nobody is really aware about that but everybody know that Internet at work is considerably consuming workforce and time thus in many corporations we prefer to limit internet access of even to deserve to a selection.

The other problem is that you can deliver -without intention- relief of your work area as much as some confidential data, hopefully this is far from our blogging arena and most bloggers prefer to talk about their own stuff far away their professional being.

Some foreign companies prohibits blogging and this is coming to the local business with the growing numbers of bloggers.