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The three blogging policies I looked up were IBM, lawfirms, and healthcare practices.

IBM's policies can be found here, lawfirms policies can be found here, and healthcare practices policies can be found here.
These three types of business all have policies concerning vulgarity restriction, citation of information, and including personal information on the blogger. It goes to show you how important these three policies are, even though they may be included last in the list. The fact that these business all included the same policies makes it seem that those three reoccuring policies are not stressed enough and are considered very important to every big business that contains personal information on clients.
The kind of policies that these three business differ in include:
Lawfirms- Who may blog, who will train workers to blog, and who oversees it.
Healthcare practices- Always tell the truth, never delete old posts, disagree respectfully, and reply to comments whenever possible
IBM-Blogging is for one's own time, always state that ideas or thought do not concern IBM, and always write interesting and important information.
I think that the three reoccuring policies must be present in every guideline or policy, plus, every blogger must write that the thoughts expressed does not concern the ideas of the company. The company shouldn't suffer for one man's ideas but that one man. The main three:Vulgar restriction, citation, and blogger's personal information should really be cut down to two. Personal information on a blogger should be kept somewhere where only the company may be able to find it in case of any failure to follow the blogging policy, not open to the whole public unless decided by the blogger. Lets say I hated the guy working next to me. I wouldn't want to cause problems by telling the guy I straight up hated his guts, but would rather take it out on my blog. If my personal information was accessible, I might as well carry a big sign on my chest saying "I hate the guy working next to me" the next day because all my information: who I am, where do I work is all out there. There will be no doubt that the next day, the guy working next to me would be waiting for me with a vengance and a weapon(maybe it is not that extreme but hey, you never know). So if I had to pick and choose the policies that I believe would work best for my company, if I had one, would be no use of foul language, don't say anything stupid: ie. no rascist comments, no threats, and no "leakage" of anything exclusive that concerns my company. Always obtain permission to use someone else's published work, always write that the ideas expressed in bloggers blog does not reflect the company's ideas or thoughts, and don't write as if you were in kindergarden.