Simon Barratt

Blogging & Wikis

Basics of blogging
Date & time
Title
Latest at top
Permalink is a url to a document that should not change

Referrer Spam

Hot Calendar to link to older documents

Hot Text is BlogSphere is a trigger word (Wiki like!)

DominoBlog (as used for this site)
Tag based layout
Templates
User Profiles - supports team based blogging
Not just for blogging, good content management feature

Blogger API w.blogger tool, will allow you to create content whenever.  Even if off line, this tool will upload the next time you connect using the blogger api.

Enterprise Collaboration

Risks and Controls

• Assume that employees will blog
  • with or with out corporate approval
  • on their time or yours
  • for internal or public consumption
  • Delta
  • Radicati!!!
  • Policies and standards necessary (need to update ours!)
  • Encourage the talentend communicators to blog to help mitigate risk

Business Blog
Internal

• Any blog intended to advance business objectives
• HR: policy updates, travel tips, benefits
• IT: help desk, tip of the day, power users
• Marketing: competitve analysis
• Customer Service: major customer issues
• Departmental: status reports, minutes

Blogs as business diaries

Business Wiki

• Long term work in progress, where the result is a piece of hyper text
• loosely managed
• searchable with web tools

Examples:

• External
• Customer Self Help FAQ
• Sales call prep
• Internal
• brainstorming
• meeting planning
• compliance planning
• department or project resource index

WikiWord is usually a CamelCase word

RSS Syndication
XML based feed
Many formats
http://www.rss-specifications.com for more information

IBM has more than 50 RSS feeds

Win RSS reader: SharpReader

Notes based readers:
Madicon (Currently testing in FMC)
Studio Blog Reader
NewsMiner
Bloggregator
Prject DX

Page property needs to be Other: text/xml

View that generates HTML or XML

@Abstract 250 chars from body field

Add view to Page

Very simple to RSS enable a Notes database!!!!

Social Software concepts

• Reputation systems
• Social networks - linkedin
• Structure enhanced blogging
  • SubEthaEdit
  • OneNote