Nice to start a day with a smile reading another example of Blogger customer education (Creative Tutorials series) – How not to get fired because of your blog
If you work for a company with a “faceless behemoth” corporate policy, you may need to modify the intellectual environment before even suggesting a blogging policy. This can be daunting, but we’ve got you covered. Or rather, Chris, David, Doc and Rick have you covered.First, get your hands on multiple copies of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the entire text of which is available for free online. Then launch a quiet campaign to work the manifesto into the upper echelons of your corporate hierarchy.
Put a copy in the break room on top of the donut box, run out to the parking lot and stick one under your CEOs windshield wiper, stand outside the executive washroom with some mints and a basket of books, or just walk up to your manager and say, “Oh, and here’s that book you wanted.”
Distribute the book. Once the ideas contained therein begin to soak into the minds of your bosses, conditions will eventually ripen to the point that you will be empowered to step up to the challenge of suggesting that blogging has value for your company. We at Blogger encourage you to do so.
Nice recipe :) Although my company supports blogging I guess distributing copies of The Cluetrain Manifesto would not hurt :)))
And an optimistic final:
If you end up getting yourself fired for blogging, deep down you must have really wanted out of that job. If that’s the case, keep blogging. With your newfound status as one of only a handful of people in the world who have been “fired for blogging,” you should be able to grab some headlines. Fan those flames! You could wind up on Oprah with a million dollar book deal. Theoretically.
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