Comments on: Online Identity – a digital tattoo http://blog.bibrik.com/archives/2006/04/online_identity_-_a_digital_tattoo.html Life and stuff Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:55:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: patroclus http://blog.bibrik.com/archives/2006/04/online_identity_-_a_digital_tattoo.html/comment-page-1#comment-226 patroclus Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:59:55 +0000 http://blog.bibrik.com/archives/2006/04/online_identity_-_a_digital_tattoo.html#comment-226 Hi there, nice to meet you the other night (at the Londonist event). I've been thinking a lot recently about how blogging blurs the boundaries between your "official" life and your "personal" life. As an employer myself, I was initially quite alarmed to come across my employees' personal blogs, and to know that they were also reading mine. In the end we got used to the fact that we're all starting to have personal online identities, and as long as some unwritten etiquette is observed (no mentions of the company or its clients on personal blogs, we have the right to ask each other to remove content etc.), it isn't actually the end of the world. So yes, people should be careful about what they write about themselves online (and what other people write about them, which as you say is less easy to control), but I also think that as blogs become more commonplace, employers might - *might* - get a little bit less paranoid about them too. It might also help them to understand/get on with their employees better, and ultimately contribute to a nicer and more equitable workplace. But then I am a hopeless optimist! Hi there, nice to meet you the other night (at the Londonist event). I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how blogging blurs the boundaries between your “official” life and your “personal” life. As an employer myself, I was initially quite alarmed to come across my employees’ personal blogs, and to know that they were also reading mine. In the end we got used to the fact that we’re all starting to have personal online identities, and as long as some unwritten etiquette is observed (no mentions of the company or its clients on personal blogs, we have the right to ask each other to remove content etc.), it isn’t actually the end of the world.

So yes, people should be careful about what they write about themselves online (and what other people write about them, which as you say is less easy to control), but I also think that as blogs become more commonplace, employers might – *might* – get a little bit less paranoid about them too. It might also help them to understand/get on with their employees better, and ultimately contribute to a nicer and more equitable workplace. But then I am a hopeless optimist!

]]> By: Simon http://blog.bibrik.com/archives/2006/04/online_identity_-_a_digital_tattoo.html/comment-page-1#comment-225 Simon Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:12:00 +0000 http://blog.bibrik.com/archives/2006/04/online_identity_-_a_digital_tattoo.html#comment-225 "Digital tattoo" - that's a great way of putting it. “Digital tattoo” – that’s a great way of putting it.

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