Comments on: Week 3 Reading Response: Corporate Blogging

By: vsaucier

vsaucier — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:01:08 +0000

Thanks everyone for your comments. And special thanks to Heather and Lauralee for the links to some really great articles. I’m going to share these at work and hopefully by the end of next week I will have some corporate blogging updates for you guys

Cheers!

By: Lauralee

Lauralee — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:45:27 +0000

You know, I just realized I can't think of any corporate blogs I've come across that I actually liked enough to do more than glance at them. Hmm. *does some searching* Oh, the CEO of Sun has a blog - with comments, and readers, and it's both relevant to the company and good. Try this post on fun at Sun, or this one where he has some interesting stuff to say about frank blogging and the question "doesn't this drive your lawyers nuts?"

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:52:35 +0000

Perfect timing for you! I nust admit, I’m still having trouble with the whole idea of corporate blogging, but maybe I just haven’t seen enough examples to see how it can be effective. Keep us posted on the progress and what your colleagues have to say!

By: Heather Bennett

Heather Bennett — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:41:18 +0000

ok, so it didn’t work, I’ll email it to you. Cheers!

By: Heather Bennett

Heather Bennett — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:40:29 +0000

Hi Vicki, the corporate library I worked at was heavy on exploring the potential of blogging for internal communication. They purchased this book: Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care. You may want to check it out... Oh, and in regards to a comment you left on another site, you need to use html to insert hyperlinks in the comments, so use "" and to close it use "" I hope this shows up since it could be interpreted as code!!!! Wow, I wish I could preview my comment on WordPress like you can on Blogger.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:23:28 +0000

Ahhh.. Don’t you love it when school actually relates to what you’re doing at work… it’s refreshing…
Yeah… that’s my earthshattering commentary…

I wonder if there would be much difference between usage guidelines of a corporate blog versus a blog in an academic or public library? I imagine there will always be a fine line to walk between initiatiing or “running” a blog to promote your department and using the blog as a productivity tool. You want it to help promote the goals of your organization, but you probably want it to draw attention to your goals at the same time…

Let us know how that goes…