Blogging may have started out as something to do “just for fun”. Now, people are looking to blogs as a professional development tool. I was recently in conversation with my big sister who works in the Justice Department who basically wondered aloud how people can read and reply to blogs on work time and actually call that work. Like a lot of things, there are certainly plenty of blogs that aren’t appropriate to engage on the job, but there are many blogs (hopefully this is one) that attempt to add value to peoples’ personal and professional development by providing dialogue and provoking thought for those that gravitate to this type of medium. 

What do you think? Can blogs be productive at work? Should they be confined to personal time? How does one know the difference of what should and should not be engaged on their organization’s time?

As you ponder those questions, feel free to answer using our “comment” feature. We think this is a great new tool to facilitate discussion on leadership and organizational development issues. We welcome your observations.