Linda Rosencrance, Computerworld (US), originally wrote: Blogs bubble into business, back in the end of January for Computerworld here in the US. But this article just 'bubbled' into my newsreader with a new publishing date of 2 August - 6 September for Computerworld Malaysia. Everything old is new again. (-:=
Since this article speaks at the intersection of weblogs and knowledge management, and also makes positive mention of using the blogging feature of Socialtext, I thought it quotable here today:
"Jacob Crossman, a software engineer at Soar Technology in Ann Arbor, Michigan, uses blogging tools from Palo Alto, California-based Socialtext to keep an up-to-date engineering notebook on his ideas about a particular project that can be accessed by other project participants.
"One of the disadvantages of a paper-based engineering notebook is that it's hard to find things unless you want to go through it manually," Crossman says. "So I decided to use the blog feature of Socialtext's software to keep track of my ideas. I would type them in, and then they're immediately searchable using another feature of the software." He is also able to link to other documents about the project using the blog entry.
Crossman is not alone. Recently, weblogs, or blogs, which let anyone with a web browser and some easy-to-use software publish a personalised diary online, have started to emerge as valuable knowledge management and communication tools in companies."
K-Collector Topics: Blogging tools Knowledge Management Socialtext Weblogs