Im interested to learn more about the internal blogs you set up at previous employers. Do employees use it to write about their ongoing projects? Thanks for sharing!
I've mostly tried to lead by example: I start an internal blog, write about my projects and hope that others will follow my need and start their own.
I've not had a great deal of success with encouraging others to start doing this, but I still find that the impact my own work has within the company is greatly improved if I have somewhere that I can write about it.
I don't expect others to actually read my internal blog on an ongoing basis, but I get a great deal of value out of being able to send links to posts on it to people. I wrote up a big essay about how to use our internal analytics tool once, for example, and shared that with anyone who asked how that thing worked.
I've used a few different mechanisms for these:
- A Slack channel. Free to setup, anyone who wants to follow along can join the channel.
- A confluence blog - confluence has a "blog" feature which you can just start using.
- An organization private GitHub repo full of markdown files.
I did eventually publish the internal blog posts I wrote at one organization (an organization which has since shut down) - I shared those here: https://simonwillison.net/series/vaccinateca/
I've not had a great deal of success with encouraging others to start doing this, but I still find that the impact my own work has within the company is greatly improved if I have somewhere that I can write about it.
I don't expect others to actually read my internal blog on an ongoing basis, but I get a great deal of value out of being able to send links to posts on it to people. I wrote up a big essay about how to use our internal analytics tool once, for example, and shared that with anyone who asked how that thing worked.
I've used a few different mechanisms for these:
- A Slack channel. Free to setup, anyone who wants to follow along can join the channel.
- A confluence blog - confluence has a "blog" feature which you can just start using.
- An organization private GitHub repo full of markdown files.
I did eventually publish the internal blog posts I wrote at one organization (an organization which has since shut down) - I shared those here: https://simonwillison.net/series/vaccinateca/