>From a legal perspective, your employer generally owns all the intellectual property associated with your work (though you could have a contract that does allow you certain joint rights). If you develop a method inside a company, say a particular way to do workflow design, there might be aspects of that method that are proprietary though the use of a flow diagram where one task follows another (and where you don't describe any task from your work) would be general knowledge. If you are blogging about work, you should get permission to do this from your IP lawyer or someone who is at least at the Director level in your company. The legal profession has not quite caught up with blogging and wikis, but if you refer to your work as a consultant or internal employee in any specific way and go outside general knowledge in the field, then you would be subject to legal scrutiny. I notice that some bloggers put in a note that what they say does not reflect the opinions of their clients or employers, which for some companies is important.
So, a good question to ask before you right a blog entry: Am I giving away anything that is too specific, that might identify corporate directions, requirements, or other proprietary info, that would embarrass the company, or that would benefit a competitor? One thing that we all need to remember is that we don't know who is on the list and a small hint here and there might be a boon for a competitor. If you are a senior person in a company and hint that there will be a new feature, you might legally commit your company to that feature and be in big trouble. Chauncey On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Prachi Sakhardande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There > > Here's a question to all the avid bloggers on this list. > > How do you draw the line between what work related stuff you can blog > about? Since most of us do interaction design at work, and talk about the > same one way or the other in our blogs, where do you draw the line? > > Is it OK to share exciting details of how they brainstormed about a > particular problem, or a simple usability tweak in that took a solution from > usable to delightful? Do you discuss 'whats permissible' with your employer > at any point? > > Would love to know your thoughts and experiences > > Thanks > -- > Cheers, > Prachi - the novice blogger > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
