Further to Billg’s wisdom on internal blogs, Infoworld’s Chad Dickerson gives an interesting insight into how the magazine’s staffers use weblogs to collaborate.
“Our internal use of Weblogs has greatly accelerated, and we�re beginning to see more tangible benefits as we�ve begun to reach a critical mass of internal contributors. At the end of March, my team held an off-site retreat and created a rolling six-month plan for IT initiatives at InfoWorld, which we posted to a Weblog available to all employees. For each month in the plan, we created a checklist of projects we would be working on and noted which ones would be completed in that month.”
Meanwhile Wired has a story on how Macromedia (who were definetely a pioneer of corporate blogging) use blogs internally.
“The blogs would provide a forum for the managers to discuss the new products, show developers how to use some of the new features and answer questions. Most importantly, the community managers would write like bloggers, with that casual, this-great-idea-just-occurred-to-me tone which sometimes makes weblogs so addictive.”
Footnote:
Thanks for Phil Gomes and Mike Manuel for the Infoworld link.
Thanks to John Cass for the Wired link.
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