I was just surfing around Macromedia DevNet and noticed they were plugging Sean’s blog on the first page. Given some of the latest events with employee dismissals and what-not over blogging related issues, I find the idea that Macromedia is embracing their employees’ personal blogs to be very refreshing.

There are certainly all kinds of employee blogs out there, but it seems that most of them get filtered through the PR department before being posted. Said blogs also seem to usually be some half-bit blogging incarnation posted in a dusty corner of a corporate website. However it’s quite obvious that many of the Macromedia employee’s maintain their own personal blogs. It’s pretty empowering to read content by employees as well as engage people in discussions via comments and e-mail who develop the product that you use on a daily basis. Every now and then you may even notice something you’ve mentioned in such a discussion or blog post get implemented as a hotfix or new feature on down the road.

Anyhow, I just thought I’d give an ‘atta boy to the great community Macromedia has been building in the past few years, as well as keeping from becoming one of those big machine-like corporations who focus on the dollar rather than customer satisfaction and fanaticism at the end of the day.