Vince Mease - Weblogs in Business
Vince Mease asks, "Does anyone know how to apply it (weblogging) to businesss though?"
I work for the City and County of Denver and I link stories that I find interesting each day. The articles that I link contain information about the state of Information Technology, crappy legislation, and positive stories about Java and Open Source in government. I've found having a chronologically ordered website with these links valuable as a resource.
A good example was the day that a city Chicken Little wrote, on an e-mail list that circulates to IT managers, that the "future of Java" is in doubt because MS is not loading their JVM on Win XP any longer. I was able to present arguments based on links that I had collected over the last few months about market share for Java in corporate IT shops, the impressive Open Source efforts around Java, and developments in the Sun anti-trust lawsuit against MS.
I turned on the RSS feed for my city weblog last week for those that have a news aggregator running. We'll be exploring searching for Frontier/Manilla soon. I also have a weblog that tracks the projects in my section.The Safety section at Public Works is exploring using a weblog to publish meeting notes.
In some cases we've found forums software from Jive to be a better tool for project organization and the two, Frontier/Manilla and Jive, overlap in features and suitability to this purpose. DenverGIS, our "corporate" GIS group is using Jive to publish their standards and aggregate discussion. The next version of Jive will include RSS.
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