Last week when I had the opportunity to meet with Constantin Basturea in Ft. Lauderdale, one of our conversation topics was about who owns the posts in a corporate blog? The obvious answer is the company since they are providing the blog platform and allowing an individual to blog on company time. Anybody have a different view on this?

This quick answer brought up some interesting points:

1. What Happens When an Employee Leaves the Company?
Does the company delete the blog and forfeit any links and commentary that may have been built up? In some cases, "there may be gold in them thar hills!" Is the employee allowed to post a 'goodbye' message with a link to their personal blog? Once an employee blog becomes fallow the traffic would slowly die off with the only future traffic the result of inbound searches or old links.

This example really only applies to individual blogs within a corporation rather then a collaborative blog written by a group of employees. Clif Bar recently faced this issue and said 'adios amigo' to an employee on their blog.

Another alternative? In the spirit of corporate indifference the person who replaces the original employee takes over the blog. Just imagine a telecom rep blog, there would be a new blogger every three months.

Many of the corporate blog policies address what an employee should and shouldn't blog about, but do not address what happens when an employee leaves.