How can you blog even when your employer doesn’t allow you to

Feb 29, 2008 1 Comment »

There are some companies that don’t allow you to blog while you are under their employment. Many people who want to blog don’t blog because their employers have a policy against creating and maintaining blogs. Employers have a reason: lots of confidential information is at stake and if employees start sharing that information on their blogs it can be very harmful to the business. Then of course there are some people who want to bitch about their colleagues on their blogs. There can be scores of other reasons.

But it doesn’t mean you keep your blogging aspirations curtailed. The simplest way is, start a blog that doesn’t reveal your true identity and work on your blog only when you are out of office. I know anonymous blogging is not very inspiring especially when you want to make it big in the blogging world some day.

The best way is to approach your employer and sign a nondisclosure agreement. This agreement will bind you legally not to discuss company matters and not to talk about your colleagues on your blog. You will also need to assure your employer that you won’t be working on your blog from the office and your blogging will in no way hamper your performance. Lots of people manage their blogs this way and their companies are okay with this. They mostly work on their blogs during after-office hours or during the weekends.