Blogging on an Intranet
A news librarian talked to me recently about putting a blog on her intranet. She hasn’t blogged before and doesn’t really know where to start or what to look for in blog software for an intranet. I can talk to her about some of the basics and just gave her a quick tour of three of my blogs, but I’m hoping maybe some of you who know more about blogging on intranets can maybe comment or blog elsewhere and point me to the post(s) about blog packages for intranets and which ones you like and don’t like. Are there certain things she needs to know before embarking on this journey? I imagine it’s a lot like picking software for anything else: assessing the newsroom’s needs, investigating features of blog packages, determining costs, etc. Words of wisdom, anyone?
June 8th, 2004 at 12:05 pm
I think the first step is to see what the Intranet is running on or permits. If the Intranet is powered by MSFT applications, then you can probably set up some of the .NET blogging apps pretty easily. Obviously Radio is a choice, but you usually have to get permission to run a server from the IT folks. I’d say the simpler packages (ones that plug into an existing structure) probably are better.