Blogging gets a Googler Fired
Blogging is can get you into trouble. It turns out that Mark Jen got fired from Google for blogging about the companies adsense financials and global strategy from what I can gather.
Jeremy Zawodny and wrote about employee blogging previously, which one should look at.
Like Jeremy Cole was saying on employee blogging that one needs to factor into the equation the following:
- Is it about anything sensitive in any way?
- Is it disrespectful to either your employer or any coworkers?
- Would you flinch in the slightest if your boss, his boss, all the way up to the CEO and the board of directors read it?
I suppose this brings up the question about Google's motto "do no evil" which I'm using as one of my motto's these days.
Interestingly enough Blogger has a faq on how not to get fired for blogging which I think he should have read prior to starting to blogging.