Integrity of Bloggers

Few months back, there was lot of buzz around the Blogger's Code of Conduct from O'Reilly Radar. My viewpoint is that blog shows the level of Blogger integrity. My thoughts about Employers and Employees perspectives are -

Employers Perspective - Many companies are not in favour of employees expressing views in public domain. If you see from employers viewpoints, not all employees are mature and have high level of integrity. There are intermittent periods when employee is not satisfied due to any reason and publish their views based on perception or prejudice not on facts. Blogging requires high degree of mutual trust between employers and employees.

Employee Perspective - A blogging demands a high integrity from the bloggers. In my view, best practice is to keep blog independent of company references. Never ever share the company information or link to company site. Blog's objective is to share your thoughts with people with same frequency. There is no inherent requirement to share any kind of company information.

Few attributes of good bloggers -
1. Ownership - Any comments published on one's blog are responsibility of blogger. Always keep moderation on for your blog. Just publishing a disclaimer is not enough.

2. True Character -Its a test of one character when things are not moving in right direction in professional life, one should resist any comments on it. This is time when you will do something unethical. If you can't resist and can't stop yourself from mud slugging, stop blogging for sometime.

3. Correct information - Bloggers shall share the correct information. It should not be biased based on one's goals. This shared information is for the benefit of bloggers community. This is platform which provides the opportunity to learn from each other experiences. May be good idea is to declare one's level of expertise on blog topic.

4. Respect - Show respect for other bloggers. Only constructive comments drives the fruitful discussion.

Happy Blogging !!

Let's Enjoy Coffee

Good story -

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went into the kitchen. He returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal- some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – and asked them to help themselves to coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, you were more concerned about comparing your cups but what you really wanted was coffee. Yet you spent all your time eyeing each other's cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to contain Life, but cannot really change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by over concentrating on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee."

My chance to donate $25

James McGovern posts India, Outsourcing and Morality promises to donate $25 for track backs.

Not going into details of benefits and risks of outsourcing to India. I want to put forward my opinion.

Newton principle - For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

On similar lines, it is also true that For every action, there are positive and negative reactions. Please also put forward the positive reactions. It will help us to find whether glass is half empty or half full.