Employment

In general, attempts at hiding the blogger’s name and/or the place of employment in anonymity have proved ineffective at protecting the blogger.

 Employees who blog about elements of their place of employment raise the issue of employee branding, since their activities can begin to affect the brand recognition of their employer.

Delta Air Lines fired flight attendant Ellen Simonetti because she posted photographs of herself in uniform on an airplane and because of comments posted on her blog “Queen of Sky: Diary of a Flight Attendant” which the employer deemed inappropriate. Read the rest of this entry »