Monday May 16, 2005

Blogging as a Connection Tool

Every once in a while Pubsub turns up a blog that mentions me and quotes my blog. I just found this article and as always the link to my blog makes me sit up and smile. I guess it might be just an ego boost but I think it is more than that. It is the joy of starting a new conversation. I love conversations and I love meeting new people. I think it must be because they keep life interesting and new.

Anyway, Jon Froda in the E-mediator blog just wrote an article about corporate culture and blogging. He does a great job of articulating how blogging enhances multi-directional communications. Coincidentally I was already working on a posting on pretty much the same subject.

Scoble commented after reading some Sun employee blogs including Mary's about how corporate blogging is a great way to build bridges across organizations. His example was between Microsoft and Sun but it made me think about how it builds bridges within organizations. At a big company like Sun disparate groups never cross paths. Before blogs I don't think I knew anyone in a group like for example, Solaris engineering. Since I started blogging I have met several people virtually who I didn't know before I started blogging. I'd like to meet more of them face to face now. I like the way Scoble is always doing meet ups. My personal goal is to start meeting face to face the people who I've met blogging.