At Groove Networks, Ray Ozzie’s peer-to-peer workplace collaboration software company, employees are encouraged to blog. Ozzie outlined a policy in 2002 that warns employees not to disclose information that could cause problems, asks employees to be respectful when talking about their colleagues, and advises employees to use a disclaimer. As a result, the blogs written by employees cause few problems but lend the company a character the public otherwise wouldn’t perceive.

Groove is not alone in setting policies for employee blogging, a topic discussed in a recent ClickZ article. The article includes links to examples of policies from Groove and Sun Microsystems.