Project Weblogs Going Mainstream
February 18th, 2003 by HalOver the weekend PM World Today ran a lead story Project Weblogs by Rainer Volz in the Feb/Mar issue. They also picked up the p-log postings Tools for Business and P-Logs for Project Teams in Reforming Project Management. What's the significance? PM Forum is a highly visited independent project management website. While they don't see themselves as an alternative to the mainstream PMI, they are willing to write about what is occurring at the fringe of the practice of project management.
Take a look at the article. The author describes three characteristics of weblogs that make them suitable for project teams:
- Easy, fast, and continuous communication
- Personalisation and identification
- Automatic storage of knowledge
He argues that virtual teams must overcome physical separation. All that makes sense. But there's more too it than that. Project teams need to be in charge of their projects. They need confidence while exercising judgement. The p-log just might be the tool.
BTW, Google purchased Pyra Labs, the Blogger company. This occurs at the same time that AOL is expected to launch a blogging service for their members. What is this craze about? I'm sure we'll be reading the pundits' views any day now. In the meantime, I'll offer my out-of-the-loop view.
- Blogging tools are some of the easiest ways to keep a web-presence fresh. Websites that are fresh are read and referenced. (Some days I use AOL Instant Messenger to make my postings.)
- A micro-industry is growing to support bloggers. This community has been a mostly free (or near free)
- We all have a story to tell.
- We enjoy reading stories
- Legitimate journalists, essayists, and educators of all sorts are using the medium of a weblog to extend what they are already doing.
Weblogging has gone mainstream. Can p-logs be far behind?
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