Tonight, I made a change in the process of blogging. I’ve separated the IT and Business Development into two different blogs. All past posts will be located at this blog. Future IT and Biz Dev posts will be separated unless they are of general interest.

The new blog addresses are:

http://billdotson.typepad.com/bizdev/ and

http://billdotson.typepad.com/the_it_workbook/

The subscription feeds are active on both sites, too.

For the creator in all of us: http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html 

Hugh’s method of writing is great — its a conversation he could have with you.

This post is great for anyone in the corporate world and for those college students about to enter it.

How do you capture and make available all of the knowledge in an employee’s e-mail? What if that employee leaves? Who has access to the data?

Mauro Cardarelli points out an article in CIO Insight about Robert Scoble’s views on corporate blogging. Scoble happens to be a former Microsoft employee and one of the most prolific bloggers in the world.

Scoble’s comments about blogging are important since he points out a few great ideas for internal blogs. The first is an example how all sales people could publish their own blog — keeping their manager(s) informed of activities and leaving the e-mail Inbox free for client communication.

I think this is a wonderful idea. All employees could have an internal “What I did today” blog, but limiting it to daily activities would not make sense. Many Japanese firms have a kaizen policy — employees are encouraged to submit ideas to make their processes better. These firms could seek out blog posts with the tag (keyword) “kaizen” for employees’ ideas.

Depending on applications in use at your company, you may want to do this. Blogging software is free.

Scoble’s second idea links the knowledge (data) stored in employee message stores (those gigabyte-plus e-mail files on your computer) to blogs. I have experience with this situation since one of my former employers contacts me monthly asking, “Where are the notes on…?” I let them know where the files are, but wouldn’t it be easier for someone to go to a web site and type “Bill Dotson Acme Notes” and see all the results?

You can link to blog posts from internal documents (e-mails and MS Office files, for example). Posts can contain images, video, etc.

Remeber when I said the blogging software is free? Losing corporate knowledge is not. Are blogs worth investigation now?