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April 27, 2004
Enterprise Weblog Pitch
Posted by Ross Mayfield
Lee LeFever won the
perfect pitch competition by highlighting the unique property of weblogs to capture context:
First, think about the value of the Wall Street Journal to business leaders. The value it provides is context the Journal allows readers to see themselves in the context of the financial world each day, which enables more informed decision making.
With this in mind, think about your company as a microcosm of the financial world. Can your employees see themselves in the context of the whole company? Would more informed decisions be made if employees and leaders had access to internal news sources?
Weblogs serve this need. By making internal websites simple to update, weblogs allow individuals and teams to maintain online journals that chronicle projects inside the company. These professional journals make it easy to produce and access internal news, providing context to the company context that can profoundly affect decision making. In this way, weblogs allow employees and leaders to make more informed decisions through increasing their awareness of internal news and events.
To build upon it, the value add is social context. Internal blogging doesn't have to be a side activity -- an outcome of project communication is capturing internal and external news in the social context of an author. Enterprise weblogs can save people time performing activites and seaching for information while developing a group memory; accelerating project cycles and reducing project risk.
Huge thanks go to
Judith Meskill for facilitating the contest and dealing with the judgemental judges:
Dave Pollard,
Dina Mehta,
Don Park,
Flemming Funch,
Jim McGee,
Lilia Efimova,
Martin Dugage,
Phil Wolff,
Ross Mayfield,
Scott Allen, and
Ton Zijlstra -- we all had fun in
Socialtext to get it done.
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