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Collaboration Loop: Getting Over “Fear-Of-Blogs”

"Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity talk to clients on a range of topics that include collaboration, unified communications, Web 2.0 and social software. Regarding Web 2.0 and social software, I find that people are often captivated by the use of these concepts and tools in the consumer market. While some technologists are skeptical, there are also a growing number of people that are wondering how such practices and technologies could be applied internally and whether such use could bring about some degree of business transformation – especially in terms of leveraging worker know-how and collective insight. Often, people will use the term “Enterprise 2.0” as shorthand to describe this transfer and application of Web 2.0 concepts and social software tools behind-the-firewall. While the Enterprise 2.0 topic itself is quite broad, I wanted to focus this post on one aspect of some recent conversations concerning the internal use of blogs."

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BusinessWeek: Executives Remain Wary of Web 2.0

"These results surprised one of the study's authors, Jacques Bughin, who's a director in McKinsey's Brussels office. Following the study, he interviewed a number of the respondents. "The reason why blogs and wikis, in particular, aren't well used is that companies are still afraid," he posits. "How do you basically regulate how to contribute?" He also thinks the wisdom of crowds isn't always sharp and that companies are worried about getting bad information on a collaborative document, such as a wiki."

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Six Apart: Movable Type Plugin Survey

"One of our main goals for Movable Type for 2007 is to make sure our community’s feedback is an even more integral part of product development. As a first step, we’re experimenting with getting your help fixing the plugin experience for Movable Type."

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Six Apart: Intel Outside - Enterprise Blogging

"Starting two years, ago Intel CEO Paul Otellini began communicating with the team inside the company by using blogs as a direct channel to Intel’s staff around the world. When the blogs were first publicly discussed, the idea of such a prominent technology executive participating in a private internal..."

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Movable Type: A blog for every business: Enterprise and Version 3.3

"When we started offering professional support and paid licenses for Movable Type over two years ago, the idea of business blogging itself wasn't obvious. And the need for a reliable blogging vendor that a company could trust as a partner..."

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Spero News: Business and niche blogging: What is the difference

"Unlike business blog, people do not create a niche blog to support an existing business. It also serves different purposes as a common business blog. You can see a niche blog everywhere on the Internet. Chances are if you search on search engines, one of the results on the first page will possibly be a niche blog. It covers anything from photography, celebrity, scrapbooking, building construction, personal development, and so on."

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Six Apart: It's Okay To Screw Up! A Case Study

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"Okay, so we’ve been saying over and over that lots of companies are afraid of blogging, but they don’t need to be: It’s safe to get started! But we should talk a little bit about why they’re afraid. The truth..."

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