Chad Dickerson of InfoWorld writes about their internal Weblog that started as an experiment. Already, it’s indispensable...

Our internal use of Weblogs has greatly accelerated, and we’re beginning to see more tangible benefits as we’ve begun to reach a critical mass of internal contributors. At the end of March, my team held an off-site retreat and created a rolling six-month plan for IT initiatives at InfoWorld, which we posted to a Weblog available to all employees. For each month in the plan, we created a checklist of projects we would be working on and noted which ones would be completed in that month.

We also scheduled what we call "fire drills" — our internal term for the intentional failure of a specific key system to test fail-over capabilities in the event of an unexpected outage of that system. Posting this plan on a Weblog made three key things happen. First, it forced the team to strategically organize its IT initiatives into a coherent roadmap fit for broader internal consumption. Next, it created a sense of accountability for these initiatives within the IT team because we had collectively agreed on the initiatives and documented the process. Finally, posting our plan for the entire company to see helped foster a sense of accountability to our non-IT colleagues within the company.

This information is priceless and there is more....

We are in the final throws of setting up the tBBC internal blog - Real Soon Now! that will be run on Expression Engine rather than Movable Type. We already have an internal blog for another current project and it has proved to be more than the sum of its parts, so to speak. Read the whole article and note the conclusion that we need to spread to the world.

Weblogs are not just for the hard-core techies....It’s amazing how a system so simple and easy can produce such profound results.

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