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One view of intranet blogs

Intranet blogs are gaining in popularity, but their implementation isn’t quite the same as you’d expect from a public blog. Dennis Hamilton, a 31-year employee of KZF Design in Cincinnati, Ohio, launched an intranet blog called KLINKS in August 2004, and writes about the experience at LLRX.com.

It’s an interesting and personal view of intranet blogs. For example, Hamilton tells the story of posting a link to an article critical of architects (KZF Design is an architectural company) because…

...I felt the professionals would want to know about this type of negative publicity regarding their profession.  Within ten minutes from my posting, an architect was standing in front of my desk, demanding the removal of the blog article.  He said that his profession didn???t need any more negativism and (I believe this was the main reason for his concern) this gave the engineers in our firm more ammunition to belittle the architects.  Apparently, this architect felt my article was too offensive for our closed community.

Hamilton also recounts instances where he was criticized for providing employees with a new way to waste time, and he also addresses the need to articulate the benefit of the blog compared to the cost.

Thanks to CorporateBloggingInfo for the link.

03/22/05 | 0 Comments | One view of intranet blogs

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