Good interview with Udell as well as some pointers on rolling out blogs within a corporation. Lots of useful tidbits for business case presentations. I also like the breakdown of project- versus workgroup- versus individual-blogs and the benefits of each. http://www.blogroots.com/chapters.blog/id/4 This is actually a chapter from a book called We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs.

Informative recap of an internal blog initiative: http://www.rklau.com/tins/stories/2002/11/11/klogPilotRecap.html

Here’s how you can add a link that lets people launch AIM with your screen name:

<a href="aim:GoIM?screenname=yourscreenname&message=Linked+from+blog...>Click to IM with Jeff</A>

Here’s how you can add a link that lets people add your AIM screenname to their buddy list:

<a href="aim:AddBuddy?ScreenName=yourscreenname">Add me to your buddy list/a>

And here’s how you can use the AIM presence engine to display an icon to indicate whether or not you are currently logged in to AIM:

<IMG src="http://big.oscar.aol.com/yourscreenname?on_url=http://www.aol.com:80/aim/gr/online.gif&off_u rl=http://www.aol.com:80/aim/gr/offline.gif" align=absMiddle border=0>

These examples were taken from an article by John Jainschigg at Communications Convergence.

XML-RPC for newbies: http://davenet.userland.com/1998/07/14/xmlRpcForNewbies

Radio Userland developer primer: http://radio.userland.com/radioUserLandForDevelopers. Includes a couple of links to more advanced functionality through the use of macros.

Frontier’s built-in verbs (these are accessible from within Radio): http://docserver.userland.com/

“Here’s a good interview with John Robb of Userland about what a k-log is….There’s an interesting observation in the comments to this interview. There’s a programmer who’s been doing what I do (keeping a Project Notes type file) for years.” [Tom’s Blog]

I like the concept of using blogs in a corporate setting and I think the project notes file is a good idea, but the question I have about that is, wouldn’t it be better for you and that guy and anyone else, to put their tips and tricks into a corporate knowledgebase (maybe topic-specific) that everyone could easily share and contribute to? A project notes file doesn’t sound leverageable by the org. His sounded like he publishes his such that the whole org can get it, but still, there ought to be a framework for capturing that type of knowledge that encourages others to contribute.

I also agree with the comment-provider that blogs seem very one-sided when compared to a discussion database, and that it is harder to understand the context of a post. That may be something I will get over with more exposure and use.

Am I too hardened by my history with Lotus Notes? I am keeping an open mind but there do seem to be hurdles…