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November 10, 2006

Community Built In

Another key difference for Intranet blogs vs. Internet blogs is the fact that Intranet blogs start with at least a couple of communities ready for them.  A community is the group of people that follow the blog regularly and therefore care to make great comments, offer help for some of the content and in generally tend to help build the blog, as great blogs tend to have strong comment streams that add to the topics posted.  Internet blogs, on the contrary, are usually born with either a small community or no community at all and grow one over time.

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November 03, 2006

Information Controls on Intranet blogs - Why no freedom is no control

Many company executives feel that if they give too much latitude to their employees things can seriously ran out of control.  Sensationalist stories about bloggers blasting out nasty secrets of executives or politicians only add to this fear.  If the water cooler conversation and hallway rumor mill is bad enough, why should we give employees the megaphone to amplify this? 

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November 01, 2006

Setting up an Internal Blogosphere: What kinds of considerations need to be taken into account?

I'd like to start with a series of discussions about the setting of Internal Blogospheres. First, I'd like to ask you all: What kinds of considerations do you think you need to have before setting up the internal blogging environment?  Which Internal departments need to be involved on the discussions before the Internal Blogosphere goes live?

This is my first pass at the categories of issues that need to be addressed.  We'll go deeper on them on later posts:

  • Ethical and Business Principles
  • Legal
  • Human Resources
  • Community Guidelines

Despite the fact that the blogs are internal, I'd assume that PR also needs to be involved due to potential leaks. 

What do you all think?  Am I missing any points?  Should the list be shorter?

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