BlogCentral: the role of internal blogs at work

This paper describes a preliminary investigation into an internal corporate blogging community called BlogCentral. We conducted semi-structured interviews with fourteen active bloggers to investigate the role of blogging and its effects on work processes. Our findings suggest that BlogCentral facilitates access to tacit knowledge and resources vetted by experts, and, most importantly, contributes to the emergence of collaboration across a broad range of communities within the enterprise. Keywords Corporate blogging, knowledge management ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Jina Huh, Lauretta Jones, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg, Rachel K. E. Bellamy, John C. Thomas
• Keywords: ACM Classification Keywords, BlogCentral Facilitates Access, CHI 2007, Corporate Blogging Community, Human Computer Interaction