Thursday, June 30, 2005
Intranet Blog
Business Solution
Building a company is hard work. Communicating with your employees is a must. Creating an Intranet blog may be just the online business solution.
Communicating with managers and employees can be a difficult task. Consider setting up multiple blogs for various communications at various levels of the company structure. Many times a group discussion is going on with the managerial staff and feedback is a must. One way to do this from a content management solution is use a blog internally with a select group of individuals for creative ideas or hashing out solutions to various problems. By doing it in a blog form there can be a chronological history at the finger-tips. Additionally, a business blog can be set up as private and/or password protected with-in the framework of the Intranet.
For communications with the whole company an Enewsletter blog can be a great way to let employees know what is going on on a day-to-day basis. This would also be an outlet for employees to either post a remark or set it up with no remarks at all.
For those concerned with business security with this form of communications consider the alternatives.
First the most secure form of business communications is probably person to person. But, how realistic is that on a company wide scale. A president of a company could call all the managers in and talk to this group and they in turn could then speak to the rest of the employees. But, this takes time. An E-mail could be generated and sent company wide, although this has the potential to get into the wrong hands even if by accident. Heck, with the viruses going around these days a computer could get infected and send the E-mail out to the whole world wide web.
On the other hand an Intranet Blog can be more secure than email. It has the advantage of being able to be updated immediately and postings can be edited when necessary. Plus for off-site employee communications a VPN or virtual private network tunnel could be created which would securely link an online browser to the internal server and no one else on the INTERNET would be able to view.
Division managers could create their own url department blogs as a means of communicating with those that report to them. Maybe a list of the hot jobs for the day needs to be posted or a to do list, then use the comment area to have the items checked off as they are accomplished.
How about using the blog as both a written form of newsletter communications as well as a verbal means. Many times when something is said once, a person hearing it does not pickup all the information on the first go round. Consider having a podcasting link with the message for the day. The postings could even be linked to a pager system with-in the company so that when the president posted a podcast message it could page a group of individuals to let them know a podcast is waiting. Imagine even having the ability to set the importance of the message so that if the page came in as a 911 code from the president everyone would take notice immediately.
Many companies are using various cyberspace devices from pagers, cell phones, PDA phones, BlackBerry devices, and laptop computers for communiqués. A Blog could be incorporated into this mix and with the abilities of XML programming have it send out a headline whenever there is a posting or new comment.
So, consider not only the business aspect of Web blogging communications but the cool publishing value and making the job site a neat place to work. It is easy, check it out yourself: blogger.com Your employees will love it.
Here is an additional article (very in-depth and detailed information) about someone building an Intranet blog for a corporation using Wordpress and a dedicated internal server with the following software applications: Apache 2.0.53, PHP 4.3.10, MySQL Essential 4.4.40a, MySQL Administrator 1.0.19, WordPress 1.5. See: How to: Creating Your Corporate Intranet Using Wordpress
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Labels: Blogs, Business, Intranet
posted by James A. Warholic @ 7:00 PM
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