The Real Blogger Status

Every week, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue , we see signs of improperly managed company blogs . The person who developed our company blog left our employment - and did not give us access to the blog. How do we recover our blog? If the former employee published the blog from a Blogger account that uses cloud based email, such as GMail, the blog may be legally his property. A Blogger blog is owned by the person who controls it . If your company uses company owned email, however, you may be able to take control of the Blogger account, and the blog.

Occasionally, in Blogger Help Forum: Learn More About Blogger . we'll see yet another question about account recovery - but with a twist. I am trying to recover control of our old Blogger account, that became useless when a former employee left the company, taking the login information with him. Here we have an officer of a corporation, who is left holding the bag - because his management did not exercise proper control of a former employee. Unfortunately, Blogger accounts and blogs are legally the property of the employee who has (or had) control - and who left the company, while retaining control.

One subject which generates some frustration, as reported in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I? , concerns blog ownership - and specifically, "How do I take over ownership of a blog which I need to control?". In some cases, this is because the blog was owned by someone who just died , or maybe somebody optimistically chose the wrong "friend" to co-administer a blog . As Blogger blogs become a more common website platform for small businesses, we are seeing a third scenario How do I get control of the blog about my business? The employee who setup the blog has left the company. Like similar issues about blog ownership , this is not as simple as it may appear.