How would you classify this action by former...

I guess it really depends on the circumstances of the departure.

At our company, content created by previous employees remains in their name. The content is still the property of the company, hosted on our blogs and other social media channels - but we continue to reference them as the creators - seems the decent thing to do...

However, if one of the employees actions or reputation after their departure posed any reputation risks to our brand, I wouldn't hesitate to remove any reference to them across all our social media content.

This happened to me as well.  I was assuming that once I stopped posting and was removed as a user, it removed my name and defaulted to the administrator of the blog.

Do you think he manually removed your name from all the posts?

I'm responding to you and Dan at one time: I understand everything you do at work they own. Very aware as my departure was set into motion as I found out my employer was lacking in integrity, but whatever. In this day and age when you're a 14 person company with words like "integrity" on the wall, isn't there some expectation of privacy? Anyways ... I agree with Dan and isn't it like someone went back and changed all of the journalist's names on their article? Outside of this being a company type post, I'm more interested from a bloggers point of view, would you expect you would always remain the author of blog posts no matter if you were paid to do it or not because a lot of blogging happens in your free time, 2am, 3am, etc. Also is that blog content considered your own IP?

I would think, if it is a company blog, the content would belong to the company.  However, I do firmly believe the author of the post should never be changed.  Not only is it an integrity issues, but also misleads readers to think someone else posted the content regarding that subject.

If you write a book for your employer, you are, and will always be, the author of the book even though the company may own the rights to it.

I see and agree. thanks.

The work you do for the employer is considered their property. They paid you to do those posts.

In al's case....(i know to what he is referring) I would side with Al since what he was posting about was something that only related to him and not where he worked.

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