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January 12th, 2009 | Posted in Blogging, Technical Writing 8 Comments »
In this poll, I’m trying to find out what blogging software is available to technical communicators in the workplace (for publishing product information, building user communities, and doing other work-related tasks — not personal publishing). It’s a short, one-question poll. If you have any additional comments to add, please add them in the comments section below the post. Thanks.
Tags: blogging software, mysql, oracle, php, polls, product blogging, product blogs, SharePoint, social media, surveys, WordPress, workplace
Tom, does the question relate to blogging software that companies use for their public blogs and intranets, or is it about blogging software that employees have access to while they are at their workplace. Sorry, but my head’s a bit woozy at the moment.
Anindita, sorry I didn’t make that clear. My poll is about blogging software that companies use for their public blogs and intranets, not about what employees can do while at work for their own personal publishing.
With all the talk about web 2.0 trends, I’m trying to ascertain what web 2.0 technologies technical writers have available to them, which they could use to publish product information, build user communities, post tips and tricks about software they document, and so forth.
For example, where I’m at, it’s basically SharePoint 2007 and nothing else. Popular databases like MySQL and server technologies like PHP — which most of the blog software requires to run — aren’t available. If a good majority of my readers are limited to SharePoint, I’ll post more tips on using SharePoint.
Our corporate policy on security prevents us from using blogging services like Blogger. But we can use anything that can be installed internally, so technically we could use a self-hosted Word Press blog.
But currently we’re using our wiki to build a blog (it’s still in the planning stages though). We use TWiki and we got the blog idea from one of the discussions on their site. I think it will work pretty well, even if it’s not a traditional blog.
Rachel, when you say you can use anything that can be installed internally, you mean that your infrastructure dept. have servers that support MySQL and PHP requirements? A lot of times corporations support only Oracle or SQL. But a lot of the blog platforms use MySQL and PHP.
Where I’m at we have started using Sharepoint. I would really appreciate any tips and tricks you could lend.
I chose other.
We have two types of blogs: internal, and external. I have no idea what the external facing blogs run on — I think perhaps something custom.
The internal blogs are all done through the News feature of Confluence (our wiki software of choice).
We use Confluence too for our internal wikis and blogs. I would assume that our external ones also use the same thing.
I work for a very small company, and we use wordpress. Although, the version is extremely outdated (I think it is pre-2.0).
I really like the survey you’ve created here. I’m not surprised that movable type is the most common.