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Blogging for Project Management 
I really like this idea.
Joel and I recently worked on a project where we got in the habit of emailing the team regularly throughout the day with a quick note about what we were doing, or any problems. 
I like the idea of the team members on a single blog, perhaps with Categories if the project was big enough. 
Alas, I have my doubts that this would be accepted by my workplace. 
Mike
Published Friday, November 28, 2003 11:43 PM by MikeD
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# re: Blogging for Project Management@ Saturday, November 29, 2003 1:27 AM

As soon as I setup a server at school, my team is going to start doing this - agg blog for us to track everything we do.

by Brian Desmond

# re: Blogging for Project Management@ Saturday, November 29, 2003 1:44 AM

You mean to tell me that people on projects in workplaces know what the other people on the team are doing and are looking for better ways to communicate information? Weird... I want to work somewhere like that.

by Josh Baltzell

# re: Blogging for Project Management@ Saturday, November 29, 2003 4:34 AM

IMHO, the weekly 15 minutes team "Standing Meeting" from Extreme Programming is more efficient... or at least is a good complement.

by Christophe Lauer

# re: Blogging for Project Management@ Saturday, November 29, 2003 9:18 AM

I recently tailored ScottW's phenomenal .text 0.94 source for our company and particular project environment. My experience with it is on my blog under the .text category. All users can post to any project and subscribers are managed in the weblog by project. We haven't made the leap to RSS client aggregators on desktops, but no one has a problem with the email-subscription model I put in place. In a way it beats RSS since subscribers receive all comments via email as well. I, of course, use Newsgator.

The release of the project weblog was pretty successful, and I was asked to put a similar weblog system online for Proposals (which I did in a couple of days), as well as one for Opportunities.

When our people have Newsgator installed on their desks, I'll know our project weblogs have been a success.

by Dave Burke

# Blogs for Project Management@ Saturday, November 29, 2003 11:59 PM

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