The Russian Google Blog proves to be an imitation

Head of the Google Russia office Vladimir Dolgov advised on the creation of corporate blogs in the magazine SmartMoney: "There is no such thing as an online diary without visitor comments. Users must be able to leave postings – after all, a blog is a form of conversation over the Net". Meantime, in September, Google Russia opened a blog without a commentary. The blogs of all foreign departments of the company are made under the same standard: only mail is offered as a means to submit feedback. Other managers give far more intelligible advice. Jean-Paul Bergmans, acting head of the representative office of Sun Microsystems in the CIS, speaks of the dangers of information leaks through blogs. Elena Kolmanovskaya, Editor-in-Chief of Yandex, tells of the natural origins of the corporate blog being in the internal diaries of company staff. Roman Shaternik, head of the Red Graphic office in Russia describes the reasons for a possible rejection of the corporate blog and a return to regular press releases.