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by simonw 1051 days ago
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/