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Thursday Aug 05, 2004

Are you blogging at work?

Comments[2] by Dave in Java

Weblogs have been appearing all over the intranet where I work and I keep hearing about behind-the-firewall blogs at other companies. I've heard of folks who are blogging their weekly status reports, using blogs as personal notebooks at work, and creating newsfeeds for CVS, bug trackers, and other systems. Still, I get the feeling that most weblog-at-work deployments are experimental - just grass roots efforts to put weblogs in place to improve collaboration and communications and to see what happens. Am I wrong about this?

Traction Software sells "enterprise weblog software" and has put together an interesting list of weblog use cases, summarized below. Are you doing any of these uses cases? Are you blogging at work and, if so, what use cases are you finding most useful?

Traction Software's weblog use cases:

  • Personal Notebook
  • Scientific Research
  • Corporate Communications
  • Program Management
  • Product Management
  • Operations Log
  • Community of Practice
  • Internal News
  • Exception Reporting
  • Human Resources
  • Public, Investor, and Customer affairs
  • Account Team Communication
  • Law Firms and Litigation Support
  • Law Enforcement

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