5 Tips for You in Blogging and Social Network Sites

What­ever median you used for blog­ging and par­tic­i­pat­ing in social net­work sites, it is preva­lent that you have these “best prac­tices” at your keep.  Do not get your­self into trou­ble when you are mak­ing too much unnec­es­sary com­ments online.  You do not want your future career to be jeop­ar­dized as well due to some com­ments you made about your employer.  Be smart in what you say online, they may have some form of impli­ca­tion in future.  Here we have a few tips for you to stay on course in mak­ing a pos­i­tive pres­ence in the internet.

1. Do not write about your employer’s trade secret – The num­ber one taboo of any organ­i­sa­tion.  Never reveal your employer’s trade secret online.  That includes offline as well.  This is uneth­i­cal and you can be brought to court for uneth­i­cal mal­prac­tices of the employee.
2. Do not reveal your employer’s name when you are blog­ging any topic about the employer – As much as you can, do not include the names of your employer (the com­pany name).  First, you will not be in the radar of the employer’s human-resource depart­ment online searches.  That will keep them off site.  Sec­ond, you will not end up in any defama­tion suit by writ­ing neg­a­tive posts about your employer.
3. Do not bitch about your col­leagues online – Bitch about your col­leagues and the pub or water dis­penser.  Leave it there and then.  Do not bring it online.  By writ­ing about neg­a­tive com­ments of another indi­vid­ual in the organ­i­sa­tion, you are leav­ing a neg­a­tive impres­sion of you online.  This to the eyes of the read­ers will illus­trate your true char­ac­ter (that is to bitch about others).
4. Do not write about all the crazy par­ties you have – Most of us like to share about our fun part online.  That is why blog­ging is fun to us.  But be care­ful about what you post online even thought it is those par­ty­ing pic­tures and videos.  You do not want to be seen by your employer curs­ing and swear­ing while you look totally wasted.  You do not want to be seen jump­ing into the river naked after you fin­ished ten bot­tles of beer.
5. Think twice.  Be selec­tive in what you write online – Remem­ber, what­ever you post online will be repli­cated and stored in dif­fer­ent servers across the world.  It will be dif­fi­cult to remove all the things that you posted online.  If pri­vacy is an issue to you, it is best to stay away from social net­works and blogs.  If pri­vacy is not an issue to you, our advice is still keep min­i­mal and be selec­tive in the things you post.

To sum up, your infor­ma­tion in social net­works and blogs is pub­lic and can be viewed by the whole wide world (WWW).  That means, your cur­rent employer, and future employer.  You will also have prob­lem remov­ing all these infor­ma­tion in future.  So before you write any­thing funny, make a dumb com­ment or post a not-so-intelligent par­ty­ing video, do think twice.  You do not want those things you wrote in becom­ing some­thing that hurt your career pro­gres­sion in future!

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