Weblog as Corporate Information Service

Michael Angeles has posted an interesting entry on how weblogs and RSS may be used as an information service within a company. Along with the possibilties, he also provides some well-grounded thoughts on how to get people to be webloggers:

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Harvard Kennedy School of Gov: Big Media Meets the Bloggers

This Harvard case study (26 page .pdf) discusses how webloggers covered the remarks and ultimate resignation of Trent Lott after his remarks regarding Strom Thurmond's pro-segregation stance.

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Chad Dickerson on Weblogging ROI

Chad Dickerson: March 02, 2004 Archives

Chad Dickerson, InfoWorld's Chief Technology Officer has posted a couple of paragraphs that answer the question "Why bother with a blog?"

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My Little Crown Moulding Support Community

In May of 2003, my fiancée and I put up crown moulding in our bedroom. I blogged the process on my personal weblog at leelefever.com with pictures and descriptions, just for fun. Soon after I posted it, I noticed I was getting a lot of hits to that page and did a little research.

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Weblog as Social Networking

OK, you probably know about all the social networkings sites like Orkut, Friendster, Tribe etc. They are very popular (perhaps too popular). Lately folks have been considering how weblogs differ from these services. Below I've listed a few references to thoughtful posts on the subject:

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Univ. of Maryland Use of Weblogs vs. Email Discussion

Kathleen of the Otter Group has posted a weblog entry about an article written for the Univ. of Maryland's student newspaper called "Campus weblog use could explode"

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Robert Scoble on Corporate Blogging

Robert Scoble (The Scobleizer) has posted common sense and on-target information about weblogs and business.

I liked this point about the marketing orientation of companies (Very Cluetrain-esque. ):

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Business Blogs Vs. Email Newsletters

I thought this was an easy to understand post that comparesBusiness Blogs to Email Newsletters.

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Weblogs, Wikis and RSS Together: A Basic Recipe

At the recent Tech-Muck, I got my first real experience using a wiki, thanks to SocialText. I’ve been tuned-in for a while, but this was the first time I experienced a wiki in practice.

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Article: Blogs Bubble into Business

Blogs Bubble Into Business - Computerworld

As the creative alliteration in the title suggests, this article talks a little more about how and why weblogs are becoming an important tool inside businesses.

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