During the course of a day, sometimes to no one in particular, I might look at an Intranet application and say "It's a blog." I'm saying that a lot lately. My co-workers think I have blogs on the brain. It's my way of noting how many places on our Intranet could be generated by using a blog tool rather than custom programming.
Here's one that probably wouldn't have occurred to me. D. Keith Robinson used Movable Type, a common blog tool, to create a policies and procedures pages on a hospital Intranet. This is different from what I would usually consider a potential blog application because it is much more subject oriented rather than date oriented.
Think of the possibililties. How about maintaining a procedures manual for library staff? And of course, like Keith, you could do policies and procedures for your entire organization. Actually, any collection of relatively small pieces of information, whether by topic or date would be likely suspects. And here I thought that was a wiki. Who knew.
Here a blog, there a blog....
By the way, I spotted this on what is quickly becoming one my favorite blogs, Column Two.
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