3 Simple and Powerful Techniques Management Can Use to Encourage Enterprise Blogging
Web 2.0 technologies are surprisingly slow in penetrating businesses. It is becoming clear that knowledge sharing (blogging for example) can be effectively introduced within a company only with the active support of management.
Management needs to do the right things–primarily because management has limited time. Wasting management’s time on low-yielding activities will cause them to lose interest. Doing the wrong things can also harm the goal of knowledge sharing. To use the words of the renowned business author, Peter Drucker, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
The following are practical, down-to-earth techniques that management can use to promote enterprise blogging:
- Comment on employees’ blogs. Imagine the reaction of a lowly copywriter when the VP of marketing writes “I love this idea; keep working on it” in the blog’s comments. The excitement will keep him ferociously blogging about new ideas for at least a couple of months.
- Comment on comments. The dialogue in the comments section of a blog helps refine ideas, create new ones, and disseminate knowledge. By participating in that dialogue, management endorses the process. Management should be careful not to promote its own ideas, because their ideas have much more weight and will dominate the conversation.
- Keep a link blog. Linking to an employee blogger will accomplish the same goals as leaving comments on his blog (i.e., show support and recognition). A link blog is even more effective than commenting because the acknowledgement of the blogger is public. Keeping a link blog will help spread information throughout the company (since senior management’s blogs will be widely read). It will also help employees understand what interests the senior management (help guide the corporate blogging conversation).
Management can use these techniques to actively promote and show support for enterprise blogging–and in so doing, lead the company toward knowledge sharing.
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- Making Effective Enterprise Blogging Evolve
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Posted on March 6, 2007 by Yoav Ezer
Filed Under Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Methodology, Office 2.0
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Excellent post, a helpful article on the mechanics of corporate blogging, and how to show management leadership.
Thanks John
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