Question for readers – do you have any examples of “corporate blog portals” that you think are done “right”?
One of my tasks with Voxeo will be to create a “blogs.voxeo.com” portal with some of the blogs that we are looking to launch. Obviously, I’m looking to learn from what others have done and come out with something that works well. Back in April, I posted the second round of my “Design Requirements for a Corporate Blog Portal” and that naturally serves as a background for my development, but I’m curious for feedback six months later… are there more items you think should be added to the list? (For instance, I’m thinking that a “tag cloud” would be a worthwhile addition.)
Do you have examples of companies you think did it well? I listed Cisco and Sun in my post, and a commenter suggested Edelman… and then there’s the rather minimalist Microsoft MSDN portal. Do you have other suggestions?
Also, if any of you have built corporate web portals, do you have any suggestions for software? Anyone done it with open source solutions like WordPress? Or have you used commercial software? Any and all suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks in advance if you have any suggestions for either corporate blog portals or software.
P.S. Ultimately, my aim is to capture all this inside of The New PR Wiki so that others can learn from this exchange.
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Dan
I haven’t seen many case studies, although I keep an eye out.
Now, I can’t personally vouch for the software, but I remembered seeing the attached link to a case study from traction software.
A lot of what I’ve seen from them looks attractive from a corporate point of view. The controls where necessary, coupled with allowing the system to ’emerge’.
http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Public1205
Hope you find it a good point of reference
Matt
Good question, Dan. The ones you mentioned are the ones that come to my mind. I might have a link or two buried in research notes somewhere, though. I’m starting to update the old Socialtext Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki a bit more and it would be interesting to collaborate with you at some point.