How to Blog Safely : Blog Without Getting Presented by: Grace Sim Sacked
THREATS of Employee Blogs to Employers
•Economic Damage •Leakage of Company’s Confidential Information
Ellen Simonetti v Delta Air Lines
http://queenofsky.journalspace.com/.
Mark Jen v Google
http://99zeros.blogspot.com/
Joyce Park v Friendster
http://troutgirl.wordpress.com/2004/08/.
SO, HOW TO BLOG WITHOUT GETTING SACKED ??????
#Tip 1: Use Pseudonym • Pseudonym is “an artificial, fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to a person’s legal name” (European Space Agent, 2007).
#Tip 1: Use Pseudonym Do NOT: 1. Include Personal or Contact Details 2. Upload Photos 3. Use email with you initial -> create a new one if possible 4. Blog in the office
#Tip 2: Use Anonymizing Technologies • Anonymous Proxy Servers – publicproxyservers.com, Samair, Rosinstrument Proxy Database
• Onion Routing System, Tor – “Onion Routing takes the idea of proxy servers … to a new level of complexity. Each request made through an onion routing network goes through two to twenty additional computer, making it hard to trace what computer originated a request” (Zuckerman, n.d.).
#Tip 3: Exclude Search Engines • Create Robots Text File that instructs search engines to ignore your blog through a “Robots Text File Generator” tools
#Tip 4: Open to Invited Readers Only
• Change Blog Settings ->Invited Readers only • Password-protect certain blog postings
Protected Topics • Whistle-Blowing •Unionization •Government Workplace
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