"Don't blog on Fridays": collisions between blogging and work

Document: https://doc.novay.nl/dsweb/Get/Document-64916

Auteur(s): Efimova, L.

Gepubliceerd: Presented at HUMlab seminar, Umea University, Sweden, August 23, 2006.
Also: archived video stream, podcast

Publicatienr: TI/PR/2006/064

Projectreferentie: Iceberg

Samenvatting: One of my broader interests is to understand what happens when emergent technologies (like blogs or wikis) come to a workplace. What happens to passion and lack of central control enabling those tools when they collide with boundaries, rules and business interests of an organization?
During this seminar I present the results of my study of weblogs at Microsoft and focus on the dilemmas faced by a blogger employed by a big company, changes in working practices and relationships because of blogging, as well as the implications of those. I also interlay it with the examples from my own experiences of blogging research to illustrate that many of those dilemmas and changes apply to academic environments as well.

Keywords: weblogs, employee blogging