Category: Corporate Blogging

Thoughts on the use of blogs and wikis for Knowledge Management within a company.

Blog for Domino

FreeDom Blog. Over nine months ago In March 2002, I added this weblog capability to this Lotus Domino based website and started to blog. At the time I could not find another Domino based blog on the web though I have discovered since then that several did exist at that time. But all that is changing, partly fueled by a free Domino based weblog called FreeDom Blog from Anthony Connell. In his weblog he currently has a Domino Blogroll with about 24 Domino based weblogs including mine of course.

You can download Freedom Blog from his site. Clearly if you wish to blog on the Internet with Freedom Blog then you will need a Lotus Notes client on your PC and Domino ISP to host the application. If you need any help or advice on this then give me a call or drop me an e-mail. [Gurteen Knowledge-Log]

Switching news aggregators. I’ve been using AmphetaDesk for a while now, but I’ve finally made the switch across to another system. While AmphetaDesk has many desirable features, what was crippling me was the inability to mark items as “read”. When you are reading… [Column Two]

I’ve pretty much abandoned AmphetaDesk in favor of Radio’s aggregator. But, for internal folks who aren’t ready to maintain their own blog may want to use it or the other aggregator recommended within this post to aggregate blog feeds and other news sources.

John Robb touts Manila as the only CMS you’ll ever need

Had a long chat with Jupiter’s Matthew Berk this morning. He is the senior analyst that set up the weblog effort (although he doesn’t have a weblog yet) at Jupiter. He’ll probably make the switch to an enterprise weblog product like Manila soon.

We talked mostly about the content management market and how you don’t need to spend tens of thousands of $$ to build a modern, full featured, easy to manage, dynamic Web site. Manila provides almost everything you need out of the box and is a system that can scale to hundreds of thousands of pageviews a day (good enough for 99.99% of all Web sites). [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

Blogging as the next big thing

Blogging – The Next Big Thing?.

Micah Alpern…said he was happy to see Blogging on my list of “the next big things” but he was disappointed in the page I had linked to. The page he refers to was a very basic page I had created to define some of the basics of blogging — primarily for newbies. Micah correctly points out that it didn’t do much to explain the significance of blogging…Micah has done a good job explaining how blogging has been significant for him personally and it is a worthwhile read. [John Patrick’s weblog]

Essential Blogging essential for newbies or pilot groups

Essential Blogging is a good book if you are just getting into blogging or you are selecting a blogging tool for your intranet (K-Log). It’s got a couple of chapters devoted to each major blogging tool including Radio Userland, Moveable Type, and Blogger. The first chapter of each tool-specific chapter is a “getting started with…” intro with the second being an intro to the more advanced features. The tool tips and tricks are useful. I’m sure you could find them all documented on the web but I liked having them all pulled together for me. There are also chapters devoted to Bloxsom, an intro to/history of blogging, and a high-level discussion of various desktop blogging clients. I gave the book a fairly quick scan cover-to-cover and then concentrated on the Radio chapters. It’s a short book and an easy read. It’d be good to hand out to the members of a K-Log pilot group.

Weblogs as discovery targets

Can weblogs be subpoenaed as part of a discovery process during litigation?…what format do you have to supply the weblog? Since Radio weblogs are one large RSS file, do you have to supply the entire file? [Tom’s Blog]

I’m no lawyer, but I have experience supplying “evidence” for use in a case. In that instance, there were no requirements as to the format. You have to read the specifics of the subpoena but it would be unlikely that your entire weblog would be submitted. Only the posts that are relevant to the case would go. And, the format could be whatever–you could print out the relevant pieces or send over the RSS or HTML. I’m sure it is similar to email–depending on what is being asked for you might only submit individual emails that are relevant, not the entire Inbox. Again, people should seek the advice of counsel around this–I’m only relaying my very limited experience sprinkled with assumptions and suppositions.