Intranet Blogging

According to CIO Insight more companies are using Internal Blogs than what vox populi suggests.  Intranet Blogs are already deployed in a relatively small number of companies, but the number of companies in pilots or in evaluation suggests the number will be much higher pretty soon.  In this May 2006 survey among CIOs, they found out that 18% of the respondants already has deployed internal blogs, 15% is testing o piloting the technology and 26% is evaluating or tracking it.  In total, the number of companies in all stages of the cycle is 60%, compared to the 40% remaining that is not interested for now.

The survey also has interesting data for Wikis, Podcasts and other types of collaboration tools.  You can find the survey results here: Emerging Mobility, Collaboration, and Business Process Technologies .

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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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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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Over the last few weeks I have been working, perhaps not as efficiently on writing a book on Intranet Blogging.  I have been working at nights and as I said, I have had plenty of distractions.  I have managed to basically get an outline of the book and then a first pass at the outline of each chapter.  I also started this blog to engage other Intranet bloggers like me to discuss some of the ideas I want to develop in the book.

However, I had a bit of an epiphany last night and decided to change two things:  

• I have started to actually write the book.  I guess I was having a bit of stage fright on how to make it perfect.  I wrote last night until 2 AM and it felt great.  I want to keep the momentum so the book gets a good deal of content by the end of November.
• I also was a bit too shy on placing posts here.  The main reason for it is that I am working on the basics of my book and didn't wanted to bug you guys and gals with stuff that was too basic and not enough food for thought.  I have also decided to change that.  I will place more posts here, even the basic stuff and let you decide if they are worthy of a dicussion or not.  Please help me steer the conversation appropiately, since I don't want to fall on the other extreme...  but I do want to speed up things a bit.

Now, if you were to read a book on Intranet Blogging.  What topic do you like for it to cover? WHat will be a absolute must have?

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Let’s start with discussing this definition.  It is something basic, but I think it can help save some headaches as we move into more complex topics.  Please help me get this polished.

An Intranet Blog is an online publication with its entries ordered on reverse chronological order that can only be accessed by people participating on a given Intranet.  Access to the Intranet is usually restricted to people meeting a certain criteria (employees, members, business partners).  Intranet Blog participants usually adhere to certain ethical, conduct and confidentiality standards in their participation.   

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 This is Intranet Blogging, the blog that is 100% focused on Intranet blogs. Its intended audience are Intranet bloggers at all kinds of organizations.

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