A buddy of mine at work asked me about bloggin today, and I explained to him the blogging world to him and the different types of blogs and all that. He sounded interested, however I stopped short, no not the move Mr. Kastanza pulled on his wife, but stopped short of tellin him of my blog. Though i consider him a good friend, one of the few guys I'd like to hang with outside of Corp World, I just figured the less coworkers that know I blog the better. I've never written anything that could get me fired... in my opinion, but I feel like my blog is semi-private way of communicating to people, even though I let my name and most of my private life be public. I dunno know. I'd just hate for some of the people I work with to read it because of the possiblities of them knowing stuff about me, that necessarily i don't want them to know. Complete strangers, I have no problem with, and pretty much those that i know who read this blog are usually people I know and or trust and or don't know at all. Am I making myself clear?
Well for instance, I told my brothers about my blog, then my dumb brother Hunt told my parents. No offense mom and dad, but knowing you read my blog makes me scared. but anyway i bore of this topic....
Wifey's job hunt is seeing some progress, which is cool. We're still hoping for Covenant mostly because we love the school and also the convience factor can't be denied. But some sales jobs have called her and she's interviewing for. Pretty exciting consider how hard the job market is these days. In the mean time she's just sticking to the house wifey stuff and doing a dang good job of it.
Posted by holtonian at May 12, 2004 06:12 PM | TrackBacknever say anything on your blog you wouldnt say to anyone in particular, no matter how well they know you. with this whole info age thing, blogs are part of the searchable public record. or something like that.
Posted by: bobw at May 12, 2004 07:55 PMI agree with Bob...especially if you ever decide to run for political office (LOL). You've also got to be careful of ranting about particular individuals, since depending on the relationship you have with them you could be violating the Matt 18 principle.
In a way, blogging is a lot like email. While it's a great communication tool, you can get yourself into trouble because: 1) you feel empowered to say things you shouldn't say in person, and 2) your tone can easily misconstrued by the reader.
I learned this early on in the corporate world and suggest that you never write anything inflammatory or short in an email. It's also a good idea to make suggestions to your superiors instead of coming across like you ar telling them what to do. Lastly, remember that with a blog you can always pull it off the web and hope no one saved it or printed it, but with email there is a more permanent record.
Posted by: Scott at May 12, 2004 11:38 PM