Blogs are popping up at 1 per second according to the latest Sales&Marketing Management email. Here are some interesting facts regarding developing corporate communications (sorry, no link):
–Just over a quarter of employers have terminated employees for e-mail misuse. Another 2 percent have dismissed workers for inappropriate IM chat. And nearly 2 percent have fired workers for offensive blog content including posts on employees’ personal, home-based blogs.
–While 35 percent of employees use IM at work, only 31 percent of organizations have an IM policy in place, and 13 percent retain IM business records. 50 percent of workplace users are downloading free IM tools from the Internet.
–Blogs are booming at the rate of one new blog per second, but corporate policy is not keeping pace. Eight percent of organizations operate business blogs; 7 percent have policy governing employees’ business blog use and content. Only 9 percent have policy governing the operation of personal blogs on company time and 7 percent have rules governing the content employees may post on their personal home-based blogs. Six percent use policy to control personal postings on corporate blogs; 5 percent have strict antiblog policies banning blog use on company time; and merely 3 percent have blog record retention policies in place.