Despite being very proud of where I work and what I do, I made the decision long ago not to use this blog to write about my life at work. Why? Well, I have a healthy fear of being dooced,

dooced: to lose one’s job because of one’s website
                                                 urbandictionary.com

but I'd also like to think there's more to me than my job, and it's that part of me that I want to write about. However, fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

The company I work for has, in the last year, set up an internal company blog, (on its intranet). I like to think that it was influenced by a presentation I made to the MD at an innovation day at the end of 2007 at which I argued the case for the company to utilise the power of the blog.

The blog has proved quite popular. We currently have around 10,000 employees and of those probably around 2,000 have the ability to post. Strangely enough, I was reluctant to do so at first: I wanted what I said to be worth saying.

But now, I don't have a choice, as the MD has just asked me to be a regular guest blogger. So, I find myself in a situation I never expected. I always intended to keep my work life and blogging life separate, but it's work that is now bringing them together.

Now, I have professional obligations, I will actually meet my readers, what I say will be scrutinised and commented on by my colleagues, *shudder*. I wonder, could I be dooced for doing my job? I have been trusted with a fairly free rein and my employer has proved it is not "blogophobic", so hopefully not.

But there's no denying that the pressure is on, and I really need to think of something decent to write, and this is not the time for writers block.

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