Weblogs in business: why not

[I found this post in drafts in April 2008, decided to post anyway]

The will to publish by Richard MacManus was waiting it’s time the whole day (read it yourself and don’t forget a follow-up by Seb).

Richard asks why people would write to the Web, and then comes to a motivation to write k-logs within a company:

It’s all very well having tools like k-collector to aggregate Intranet content, but the real issue is how do we get people to create the content in the first place?

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I believe this is the main question to be answered if we want to use weblogs as a knowledge management tool.

Writing to a weblog has to become a part of everyday work. For example, for:

• capturing ideas before the fly away (and as a reminder)
• organising ideas
• keeping track of reading

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/10/01.html#a775; comments are here.

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