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I've been thinking of good ways to increase inter-project communication within my organization. I work in the software architecture office and get a chance to talk to most of the software developers. A lot of them ask questions and/or have a lot of comments to make on random topics. I've been planning on setting up a couple of forums, when I get a chance, but I don't think that's going to be any time soon. I've also wanted to setup .Text for news and possibly event blogging on the architecture site. It might be a good idea to setup project blogs and give developers access to the projects they work for.

Does anyone have any comments on how this setup sounds? I need a way to consolidate employee blogs by project, technology (.NET, J2EE, etc.), and possibly even management. What do you guys think about this? Considering RSS capabilities, this idea is more flexible than the forum idea, so I think it has a lot of merit.

posted on Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:29 PM

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# re: Corporate Web Logs 12/1/2003 2:49 AM Peter Marshall
I think you very right. This is the way to go. I wish more projects would work liek this. I think nearly all projects would benefit from a blog. For me the main driver for this is as a repository of 'unofficial' information adn feedback. Most projects do have web pages, but there is no place to put in small details for example the source of where soem ideas came from. Neither do projects provide sounding boards for ideas. Ideas need to chucked around before they are formulated or adopted.

I would igore the technology split. We live in such an intercdonnected developer space that, even if a guy is working in J2EE, he has XML issues that are relevant and data issues that are relevant. I say a project based blog/ blog agregator is a fantastic idea. It will really drive communication. but dont split it out by technology. Don't partition those people off.


# re: Corporate Web Logs 12/1/2003 4:23 AM Jeff Julian
Go for it. I think getting RSS in the workplace is best. Once an employee gets and aggregator, they start finding other feeds to read. We have found tons of benefit reading blogs here at PRL.

# re: Corporate Web Logs 12/3/2003 8:00 AM Nick Ryberg
There's a thread developing on this in the .Text forum here:

http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=407614

I think this is some extremely interesting stuff. I'm wrangling with trying to aggregate information about how to use various and sundry applications and systems, and some variation on blogging might just work.

I'm hoping the the .95 .Text will have better structure for this type of information management.

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