Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Blog as Project Tool, Revisited

A month has passed since I first install a multi-user blog for use as a project tool for our team.

We've accumulated 145 posts, and the general feedback on the tool (and the data captured through posts) has been positive. Adoption by the team was higher than I thought it would be, given it was a completely new tool.

We use it to capture information that would generally be lost - quick notes regarding this or that, out of office notices, and the like. But the most important data we have found is

Additionally, we've added users to the blog from outside our organization - while my boss sees it as a way to share information, I see it as an important aspect of transparency. It shows the external users that we aren't hiding anything from them.

If you're looking to do something similar for your organization, I found a round up of multi-user blog tools linked from Chad Dickerson's blog. Again, we're using Blojsom, which, after a h

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