Blogs blocked at certain businesses – a solution?
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Good morning all. We are trying to incorporate wordpress as a part of our school website. A small number of parents have web filters at their places of work that they cannot control that block any blog from displaying. Right now we are using wordpress and not hosting it ourselves. If we host it ourselves, do the blogs we work with still fit into the blog category and therefore will be continued to be blocked at certain places? Or do they simply become web pages not considered to be blogs? My guess is that would be the case. Any insight is appreciated!
Thanks,
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That depends on how the blocking is done. If they look at the URL and blocking by “wordpress.COM” then a self-hosted blog might get by. If they are blocking my looking for meta content in the head section (a much more likely way of blocking), then it will probably still be blocked. There are many different things in a webpage – blog or otherwise – that can be used to determine what is creating the source. Sadly there are a lot of non-blog sites out there using wordpress since it is so easy to use, and I’ve heard that those sites are being blocked in some businesses. I even got an email from a company that set up a couple blogs for their own business and their own blogs were being blocked by their filters.
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So it could very well be the case that no matter what blogging software we would use, it could very well likely be blocked still. Businesses need to unblock blogs. They are mainstream tools now, not just social time wasters.
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Businesses block certain categories of sites because if they do not, the bulk of the day for most workers ends up looking for stuff on ebay, or reading blogs, or looking at porn.
Take it from a former business owner no matter how trustworthy and loyal your employees are, they will spend a big chunk of the day surfing the web instead of doing the work you are paying them to do. We tried the honor system for a long time, asking again and again that people spend less time surfing the web, and finally had to install filters and block certain categories of sites. Asking and warning would last for about a week or two and then it was right back to the old habits.
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As a business owner, I’m not paying people to look for bargains on ebay or read blogs or watch porn on the internet, I’m paying them to do their job.
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According to a new survey by America Online and Salary.com, the average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per 8-hour workday, not including lunch and scheduled break-time. Source: http://www.salary.com/careers/layouthtmls/crel_display_nocat_Ser374_Par555.html
Top 5 time-wasting activities at work:
1. Surfing the internet: 44.7%
2. Socializing with co-workers: 23.4%
3. Conducting personal business: 6.8%
4. Spacing out: 3.9%
5. Running errands off premises: 3.1% -
I’d like to point out that studies also show that when these farting-around activities are reduced by management, incidence of psychosis vastly increases, particularly violent psychosis. Remind your bosses of this before they take away the foosball machine!
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You know we were incredibly lenient as long as everyone’s work got done, but when people started coming in asking to be able to put in overtime to finish their work when their workload had not increased, the guillotine had to come down. And that was something we worked hard for two years NOT to have to do. It is amazing what 6 months of restricted access can do. When we opened it up again, the internet screwing off never returned to even a fraction of what it had been even after two years. It is important that people be able to take a break once in a while, and that does make for happier workers, but there are limits a business can absorb and still stay in business.
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