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A bit late in time I came across this post by Fredrik Wacka on the intracompany blogosphere at the Dutch company Macaw.

We have just published a whitepaper on Intracompany Blogospheres that describes exactly the way that internal blogs are being used at Macaw. Especially I was very happy to hear that such a huge number of employees at Macaw are actually using their blogs. Our whitepaper "Your Corporate Blogosphere: Selecting a Solution to  Enable More Efficient Workplace Communication & Knowledge Sharing" can be viewed or downloaded here.

I like the way that our customer Mercury Interactive is approaching external as well as internal blogging. They started off with one external blog but have a portal in place that allows other associates to seamlessly start their own blog using the company's design. Using our system it will be very easy for Mercury to manage blogs for all of their employees and for associates to choose on the entry level if  a post should by an external or intracompany post.

For our future development we might pick up a thought that I have read in this post at Common Craft  which is to integrate a "Wiki This" functionality so that blog posts can contribute to a intracompany knowledge repository. I think this is an amazing idea!

edgar.de the leading german E-Cards service with more than 1.7 million unique visitors has launched a free blog service for its registered user. edblogs is supposed to strengthen customer loyalty and to  leverage the advertising inventory of edgar.de. The new service has a single sign-on with the existing edgar customer base so no new registration is required.

edgar.de has chosen 21Publish as it makes it very easy to launch and later on administer the new service without the burdens of additional manpower or maintenance cost. I believe that edblogs can grow into a very interesting community especially as the deomgraphics of edgar users are very similar to younger blogging communities like Xanga or livejournal .

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ISP Loomes has launched a blog platform  based on 21Publish. They have included free blogs in their premium packages. On top of that Loomes has a promotional offer including blog,  hosting, domain and email adress for only €0.99 per month. Very attractive package I believe.

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Yesterday I came across this BlogPortal. From what I see on the website it is a classroom where students are asked to write short essays or summaries on their blog. I think it is a great way of experimenting with writing as everyone else in the class can see what has been written and even comment on it.