We just had a really interesting workshop with Hemma Kocher on the theme of corporate internal blogs: in general it was a good analysis of what uses different enterprises are making of blogs as internal communication tools, and comparing our achievements with her studies was really educational.
I had a question that didn't find an answer though, so even if it's a really unpopular one I'll bounce it to you too:
We all know of cases where an employee has been fired because of her blog... but does anybody know of managers being fired or the hierarchy of an enterprise affected by a negative "peer review" through the comments of an internal blog?
Which translates as: are we really empowering the people within organizations (and thus the organizations themselves) with tools/technologies to self-assess themselves at all levels (read: bail-out/reconsider that inept manager) or are we more likely to be blessing the management with yet another tool to control their crew?
And forget about knowledge management, we all know that blogs and wikis are great for that. I'm talking about social change.
And with this I suppose I signed the death sentence of my career as an enterprise social media consultant. Disruption goes both ways I guess.
Any references to Hemma's work? Now I'm really curious :)
As for your question - not sure about internal blogs, but I have some examples of how external blogs influence the hierarchy...
In return - do you know cases of someone being fired for something written in _internal_ blog? Would be curious to know :)))
Tried searching but couldn't find any :-/
Will ask her asap.