read a blog about blogs in the workplace

How to use Blogs in the Workplace
http://www.innovationcreators.com/2007/01/how_to_use_blogs_in_the_workpl.html

"Are you a CEO? Do you want you people to across silos? Do you want your engineers or your designers to know exactly what the sales people are asking them? Or better yet, do you want everyone in your company to have a deep understand of what your clients actually want, need and will pay money for?
Do you want your people to be personally motivated?
Has anything in your company taken off half as aggressively as blogs and social media have taken off in the open Internet?"

widgets...where....widgets?

Some Bling for Your Blog
By SCOTT KIRSNER
Published: January 18, 2007
Widgets offer peripheral information and fun at the side of sites.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/technology/18basics.html?ex=157680000&en=f9914946b26256c4&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
"But while widgets are growing in popularity — the first major conference dedicated to “the emerging widget economy” was held in November in San Francisco — they can still be perplexing to bloggers and readers. And some are wondering whether a blog can become weighed down by too many widgets."

College presidents as bloggers

from the New York Times:
Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
Published: November 22, 2006
"...While some colleges and their presidents have seen their reputations shredded on student blogs, and others have tried to limit what students and faculty members may say online, about a dozen or so presidents, like Dr. McGuire, are vaulting the digital and generational divide and starting their own blogs."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/education/22blogs.html