My literature survey report is on blogging in the workplace and whether it is a good or bad idea. On the post I did on Angel, I mixed up my primary and secondary sources. My primary source is Six Myths and Realities of Blogging and Social Media in the Enterprise from awarenessnetworks.com. This article is on myths and realities of blogging in the workplace and is compiled to help for clarification purposes. It also serves asa guide for any organization seeking to effectively use blogs, wikis andother social media technologies at the corporate level. Awareness, is one of the key companies driving the adoption of enterprise blogging and social media technologies. The website states that, Awareness’s enterprise social media platform is used by companies to build communities that are public-facing to engage customers, prospects, and partners; internal, allowing employees to communicate, capture and share knowledge and information; or a combination of internal and external, where employees, customers, prospects and partners can all communicate in a corporate, borderless community. The company’s customers include enterprises such as Northwestern Mutual, McDonald’s, Kodak, Discovery Communications and Cannondale Bicycles, and largenewspaper publishers such as the New York Times Company. The myths include revealing confidential company information, employee participation, blogs being mainly a PR and marketing tool, a “celebrity” blogger is needed, and blogs are the only tool needed to foster communication with employees. One of my secondary sources is Robert G. Brody and Brian J. Wheelin called, Blogging: The New Computer  “Virus” for Employers. It is from the Human Resource Planning; 2005, Vol. 28, Issue 3, p12-12, 1p. and can be found here.  This article is about the dangers of blogging in the workplace such as for personal affairs, disclosing company information, and personal and professional attacks on management. Before, employees had to worry about employers wasting time and shopping or looking stuff online that was not work related. Now, employees are spending time during and after work blogging. Problems with this are the disclosure of confidential information, professional and personal, attacks against top management, and allegations that can undermine corporate stock prices. Since these things are usually done anonymously, the situation becomes even more difficult. How do employees control this and solve the problem? If they try to fight back, this could cause a bigger problem. If they do nothing, people will think it is okay. If the employee knew who was creating the problem, actions could be taken, but most of the time they do not have this information. The article suggests the following: Employers should research who had access to confidential information now appearing online, and trace the information through the organization. A user’s screen name can also provide clues if a birthday or hobby or name is included. If an employer can show their reputation has been harmed or there has been a loss in stock prices because of the posted comments then the employee could try to get a subpoena and the website would have to give the information of the profile user. However, the article points out that employees can also file an “anti-SLAPP” (strategic lawsuits against public participation) suit against the employer, which permits an individual to sue for the attempt to quell speech and other rights. The article suggest that the most effective way to fix this problem, may be to practice positive employee relations so such messages are discredited or become unnecessary. Companies can do this by adopting strategies based on an audit conducted by the company on what they want to see or need to strengthen this.