The Corporate Weblog Manifesto Provides 20 rules for would-be corporate bloggers.

Fast Company | Professionals, Publishing for the Public provides among other things some information on the difference between using blogs and online forums and message boards.

This Fast Company article discusses how some big and small companies are using blogs for knowledge management, information dissemination, and project managment. I’ve been playing around with blogs for a few months now internally at my company and with a couple of clients. My vote is still not in on whether a blog can do a better job then a dedicated project managemet application. And as for knowledge management, well, the term itself tends to mean a lot of different things to different people. I suppose it can fill that role somewhat but I think a blog would have difficulty on a medium to large scale, as well as over an extended period of time. For a short-term, finite knowledge-base, maybe it would work. I’ve setup a blog at my office to manage information about blogs and other social software in corporate environments. I’ll see how well it handles this.

Nice article on creating standards based semantically correct html: Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure.

Record every conversation. If you are like me, you’ve had the same situation happen over and over again. You go to a client meeting and a few days later, having never gotten around to writing up the meeting notes, you try and remember everything that was discussed, futilely trying to make heads or tails of your chicken scratch notes. And that is the best case scenario. At worst, (and just as frequent), you are back at another client meeting and the client says something which is completely the opposite of what they said or asked for about three months ago at an earlier meeting. Your chicken scratch notes are long gone, and even if they weren’t you probably figured what your client was saying at the time wasn’t important enough to write down. So now all you can do is mumble, “but you said…”.

Trust me. Record it. And use a digital recorder. This way you can archive all of your conversations on your computer with convenient titles and timestamps.

Social Networking Introduction by Rob Cross provides an introduction to organization of human resources and the social and business implications.