Driving Participation and Contributions on Internal Blogs and Wikis

It's much easier to install the software than it is to get participation ... you need to put some thought into the why? and the who? ... Why are we doing this? Jack Vinson posted this list from C.G Lynch (CIO.com): Seven Reasons for Your Company to Start an Internal Blog Your enterprise e-mail applications are not easy to search - access to "buried in a colleague’s inbox" Your e-mail is lost in the eye of the "cc storm" -…

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Gee, this social network – presence – IM – knowledge management – collaboration stuff really works

A fun week or so, watching the impact of various abstracts / memes as they manifest themselves in many interesting ways ... Collaboration: A few evenings ago, I finished up an email regarding some projects at work; Mark1 has been investigating what I called "on-line collaboration", where shared documents, drawings, etc. could be discussed and modified via a shared desktop. I was telling him about "off-line collaboration", like blogs and wikis, and capturing the collective knowledge of a group. I…

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