Before I even had a chance to check my feeds today, Neville directed me to Fredrik Wacka’s post about Macaw, a Dutch company in wihch every one of its 110 employees has an internal blog. It’s not a company of blog-crazy workers. It’s just part of the new-hire package. The blog comes along with intranet access and a company e-mail account.

Still, 90 of Macaw’s employees use their blogs. Writes Wacka,

The blogs are mainly used to share knowledge about technical issues or solutions. But also fun stuff, politics, current events or pictures appear as blog entries. The internal blog system started because of one employee who believed in the idea and wanted to give it a try.

Wacka’s post includes a screen shot of one of the company’s intranet blogs, which clearly shows an employee sharing code. (Macaw’s an Internet solutions company.)

I like to think that Macaw’s just the first company to recognize the knowledge-sharing value of intranet blogs, and that the day will come when it’s the odd company that doesn’t provide a blog as part of the new-hire package.