Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Blogging at Public CIO. Public CIO Magazine has an article on blogging by Blake Harris that I'm part of. Blake asked a lot of good questions and we talked for a while. That is why the Utah state government's brash foray into blogging stands out. A few months after becoming Utah's CIO in 2001, Phillip Windley began blogging personally. "It wasn't very long after that -- a month or so -- that I realized there could be a lot of value to an organization if there were people inside the organization who blogged," Windley explained. "I could see how when I wrote stuff on my blog, people who worked for me and people who worked in IT throughout the state, as well as others, would respond to it. I thought, "This is cool. I've got a channel to essentially talk to these people.'" But Windley also wanted to hear what these people were thinking and saying. So he assembled a little program, negotiated a price for up to 100 licenses with UserLand, and offered anyone in Utah state government a free blog for a year if they wanted to start blogging. Although blogs were little known among the general Internet population back then, about 35 people took him up on the offer. Many of these blogs eventually died for various reasons. "Some people just don't like to write," said Windley. "And there was some institutional backlash against it. There was>From Government Technology's Public CIO Magazine Referenced Wed Feb 02 2005 16:00:46 GMT-0700 [Phil Windley's Technometria] 9:33:36 PM

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