Comments on: How we use blogs internally

By: Javabeanboy

Javabeanboy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:31:17 +0000

Maybe someone is doing this.
Should blog posts have a star rating system like YouTube to help indicate user interest? Or even better yet, a finite number of tag labels like on TEDtv (you pick 5 provided adjective-based labels instead of making-up your own topics)? This would be more helpful to the foreigner skimming for interest than say how well you can write a Headline.

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[...] with it. A good way of introducing the technology and members of the team would as seen on Jive, a software company providing tools for internal business blogs, would be to create a section where [...]

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[...] read (they have all new employees post an introduction blog – fantastic idea). You can find it here. So, did I explain it well? Do you have more questions? Would you like to add to the post? Add [...]

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Simon Scullion » links for 2008-05-14 — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:32:09 +0000

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By: pollyrt

pollyrt — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:43:15 +0000

Really interesting post, Sam.

I’m thinking about internal blog use a lot at the moment. I have a (team) blog, but (as far as I know) it’s the only one in the organisation. I use it for a fairly substantial subset of the possible uses you list.

However, being the only blogger is pretty lonely! I link to content on our intranet (when it’s relevant, which is depressingly rarely), but apart from that it exists in isolation. People are pretty reticent about commenting (they tend to email me instead!). I’m keen to expand blogging in the organisation so that a real conversation can develop, and because I think it has enormous potential for improving the flow of knowledge and insight through the organisation.

Mark – I think trying to read everything that gets blogged in an organisation is always going to be impossible (unless there’s only a single blog, of course!). Like the wider blogosphere, the best/most interesting content will come to your attention because it’ll be linked to and discussed more broadly.

Sam says ‘once a week I get a digest email of all the top posts for the week. I love getting this in case there’s something popular I missed’ – perhaps that kind of digest may be a solution for a really bigCo blog network?

By: Mark Nankman

Mark Nankman — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:17:43 +0000

Interesting ideas, Sam! Thanks for sharing that with us. I have been thinking about this a bit. My employer (Capgemini) has over 80.000 employees. Having 80% of them actively blogging would pose a bit of a problem. There would be too little time to read all that would be written. I usually only read the blogs from people I know. It is simply impossible to stay connected with the entire company. So I have to be selective. But I can see how it could work for groups (departments and communities) within Capgemini.

I have also pondered over on http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog

By: Gia Lyons

Gia Lyons — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:20:45 +0000

I’m going to steal your list.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:20:45 +0000

Sam,
Thank you for sharing this. I found a number of useful ideas. I hope to see more thought leadership from Jive on how to use social networking features within the enterprise to improve productivity.

I think that Jive is uniquely positioned to lead by example (and thought) in this space.

By: Brad Warren

Brad Warren — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:55:40 +0000

Thanks for the great list Sam. I’ve really been encouraging people to use their internal blogs more here at FG SQUARED, and its been great to see it take off. There was a lot of goofing off type posts at first, but more and more we’re using it for most of the reasons you have listed above. In particular, the project update type posts are becoming an extremely useful way of keeping up with status.