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Hey Everyone,

For those of you who are on staff with a church, or even for those in business who may “blog” about your business … does your organization have an “official” or “unofficial” blog policy?

We’ve been discussing this at my church lately. As an active web2.0 dude, I blog about church all the time, and some of the worship confessional videos find their way onto the top results of Google because they’ve been “tagged” to reflect our church.

In retrospect, we’ve discovered some things from time to time that come up as top results in search engines for our church that maybe don’t necessarily reflect who we are in a way that we’d prefer. For example, maybe we’ll make a joke about something in a video, but later realize it could be taken out of context and could cast a negative impression of who we are. (let’s just suffice it to say we’ve put our foot in our mouth more than once!)

So, there’s been some discussion on what parameters need to be established for church staff on what they blog, how they link to the church, etc. It’s not an effort to censure or prohibit creativity; rather, a genuine look at how we can make sure that we give a unified, correct vision for what we’re doing.

How about it – do you have a blog policy, formal, or informal? Let’s hear about it.

Fred