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Wednesday, July 24, 2002 |
Blogging and Knowledge Management
I work in an organization that has more than 600 employees. It's impossible to know what's going on just by chatting with people by the coffee machine. I've been talking up blogs to coworkers and to our leadership as a tool to help fill in some of these gaps. While many people here don't know what a blog is, there isn't anyone at DoIT who doesn't know who Cisco is, and there's an interview in the upcoming BlogRoots book with a Cisco marketing manager on her experiences using a blog as an internal tool.
[via Scripting News]The BlogRoots authors are publishing their book on the Web, in its entirety. Chapter 8, Using Blogs in Business, is online now.
"Wouldn't it be nice..."
First thing I read this morning: Salon and Userland just announced an alliance to provide weblogs on a Salon website with the Userland Radio tool. Salon is one of the the few "for pay" websites that I think is actually worth paying for; and I think that Userland's webhosting plus tool combination is a bargain.My friend Bill Humhpries, who writes the excellent More Like This asks the same question I had: So if I have a Radio license and a Salon subscription, can I publish to the Salon's RCS?
The answer wasn't in Salon's FAQ this morning, but Scott Rosenberg had the answer on his blog this evening: no. Website hosting at Salon is an extra charge separate from the Salon Premium subscription. Personally, I think it's worth it; if I wasn't already running a Userland-based weblog I'd put my blog on Salon. The combined $70/year for both services is, at Starbuck's prices, not enough to buy me one cup of coffee every week.
