Scoble: “I don’t like group weblogs.” This is a current topic with me. A bunch of people I know wanted to do a group blog. I said okay give it a try. I’m watching from a distance. I prefer to write for my blog and develop a way to route posts to categories so readers can assemble their own group blogs out of their favorite authors (of which I hope to be one). Scoble is a pundit and a very wise man. He’s onto something. [Scripting News]
Category: Corporate Blogging
Thoughts on the use of blogs and wikis for Knowledge Management within a company.
I’m trying out NewsMonster on my home machine. Seems pretty cool so far. I like the UI. A large number of feeds is much more manageable using its folder metaphor than Radio’s flat list. I’m sure it’s got a lot of nifty features I haven’t stumbled onto yet. If someone just wants to aggregate feeds or doesn’t mind that the aggregator isn’t integrated with their blogging tool, this is just the ticket. Note that if you are using Blogger, you can right click on a news item and post to your blog. Maybe someone’s got an add-in that does the same for Radio.
Chicago Tribune article on blogging in the workplace. [Scripting News]
Dan Gillmor on Microsoft’s blogging software. “This strikes me as no threat to the current and upcoming end-user tools from the vendors we use today.” [Scripting News]
John Robb’s departure from UserLand
Heads up: I do not work at UserLand anymore. People have been calling me and sending me e-mails about this, so this should set the record straight. Final resolution of my departure isn’t over with yet, so no details will be released until then, if ever.
In the meantime, I am going to work on building the Weblog Network, K-Logs, and more…There is a huge amount of forward motion in the weblog world from organizations that will pay real money (this answers Scoble’s question) ;-> [John Robb’s Weblog]
RSS and Echo. Well the big companies have finally made their move in the weblog world with Sam Ruby being directed by IBM to take control of an emerging syndication standard…IBM is very interested in this given their longstanding and extremely lucrative relationship with the WSJ ($500m over the last three years) and other publishers. It would be against their interest to let a simple syndication standard emerge that didn’t require lots of IBM iron and software expertise. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
I’m BACK! What a week. I went to Orlando to the IBM Content Management and Portal Conference. I had every intention of blogging the event, but Sunday night, my hard drive bit the dust. My hotel and the conference hotel were both WiFi-enabled so I was really disappointed.
I thought everything was totally gone (including the web log) but it turned out I could still read from the drive once I added it to the modular bay of my laptop. It’s pretty spotty, though. I snagged everything I couldn’t live without.
Restoring Radio was a pain. I thought I was covered because I used the backup utility. After reinstalling and setting my serial number, I tried using Restore but it didn’t do anything. I’d click Restore, it’d give me an “are you sure?” message, I’d confirm, and then it’d be back to the backup/restore page.
To fix it, I uninstalled Radio, went back to my old hard drive, pulled the entire Radio directory, reinstalled on the new drive, and then overlayed the directories with my recovered Radio directories. Worked like a charm.
Blogging in the corporate world
Tiernan Ray of eCommerce Times in Wireless Newsfactor: Why Blogs Haven’t Stormed the Business World. I gotta roll, so I’ll let the rest of ya handle this one.
This link provides an interesting perspective on blogging and the corporate world. I agree that current blogging tools are creating heaps of information that are largely uncategorized. However, I will take a search engine indexing blog content over not capturing tacit information any day.
Michael Hall’s example of how he uses blogs at work
Michael Hall gives an example of how he used a weblog at work and also mentions wikis. He briefly digresses into Sharepoint toward the end of the article. Might have a couple of good blurbs for the uninitiated.
Business 2.0 corporate weblogs article
Weblogs in organizations and finding voice.
An interesting little piece in Business 2.0 about corporate use of weblogs
Business 2.0 – Web Article – Management by Blog?
Most of the companies I’ve observed using blogs are trying it on their customers before unleashing it internally on their staffs. The external need, apparently, is more pressing. Many businesses already have other systems in place for managing internal information, ranging from simple brown-bag lunches to overkill knowledge-management regimens.
I disagree that the external need is more pressing. I suspect that the truth is that the external weblog strategy presents less risk in the eyes of the implementer. Or to put it differently, internal weblog experiments feel risky…The chronological structure of short posts encourages and gently forces continuing practice…Helping weblogs to succeed inside organizations has little to do with technology features. It depends instead on nurturing a grassroots process of tentative practice evolving into confident process. Think Harold Hill in The Music Man not General George Patton in Patton [McGee’s Musings]
I agree with McGee. At least in our firm, blogs offer a way to move knowledge capture closer to the source–it’s a more organic approach to KM than our previous efforts. I do agree with the article author, though, that it really depends on the culture of the organization.