Blogging in the Workplace

Over the years, blogging has become a more popular way to communicate with others on a particular idea or topic that you can be engaged in and find interesting. People are now found to be engaging in more blogs around the workplace but is that good or bad? Blogging in the workplace can allow you to increase knowledge of a particular topic that you are not familiar with and according to a study done in 2011 at New York University's Stern College of Business, "More employees are likely to have access to the same information and be able to bounce ideas off each other". The creation of new and interesting ideas could perhaps allow more profit to be made throughout the business based upon the ideas created.

Although blogs can allow company growth, it can create some drawbacks as well. One major concern is the lack of face-to-face communication, which is one of the oldest forms of communication. People rely on technology so much today that they could be known as "socially awkward" at later points because of the lack of communication. In a workplace, it is best to still hold meetings to try and build up communication because it is a better way to clearly understand people. Blogs can allow the misinterpretation of ideas, which may create problems further down the road because the blogs may not be a clear manner of sharing ideas and information.