Do organizations need formal blogging guidelines?

Some organizations have created formal guidelines for employee bloggers to follow, reports Alan Scott of Factiva. "The decision to create guidelines is particular to your own company's situation and should be determined based on input from marketing, HR, and other departments."

Some things that may be included in the guidelines are references to other corporate policies (such as codes of conduct, sexual harassment, privacy, disclosure of confidential information, and the like); details on the type of ...