The impact of blogging on reputation
I was alerted this morning on Twitter to this blogpost by Brian LePort on the first of 5 reasons why students shouldn't blog . Its central thesis is that " it is almost impossible to avoid writing something that will offend someone ". Consequently, bloggers run the risk of doing themselves reputational harm at best, or failing to get a job or even getting fired at worst. LePort illustrates his thesis by the extraordinary case of Christopher Rollston , who tells how he was forced to resign from a post at Emmanuel Christian Seminary because he wrote a piece for the Huffington Pos t on the marginalization of women in the Bible. Rollston, who describes himself as a Christian, concluded: " Gender equality may not have been the norm two or three millennia ago, but it is essential. So, the next time someone refers to 'biblical values,' it's worth mentioning to them that the Bible often marginalized women and that's not something anyone should value ." A...