The Blog Council - damn I wish I had thought of that!
Lots of feedback in the blogosphere about the new Blog Council...
Top Executives from 12 Global Brands Form Private Community to Develop Best Practices, Measurement, and Idea-Sharing
December 6, 2007 -- The Blog Council, a professional community of top global brands dedicated to promoting best practices in corporate blogging, officially launched today. Founding members include the leading companies from a diverse range of business sectors: AccuQuote, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, Dell, Gemstar-TV Guide, General Motors, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, and Wells Fargo.
Another quote for the Blog Council web site: ""The Blog Council exists as a forum for executives to meet one another in a private, vendor-free environment and share tactics, offer advice based on past experience, and develop standards-based best practices as a model for other corporate blogs."
The vendor-free environment seems to have one vendor involved - GasPedal, who "manages the Blog Council". All I can say is to take a quote from the GasPedal web site - "Damn I wish I had thought of that"... and suggest that I create the Intranet Council.
Want to join...?
In the meantime, check out what bloggers are saying about the Blog Council:
- PR 2.0 (list of other blog posts on the subject at the bottom)
- TechCrunch
If you create the Intranet Council, yes I will join!
I think that for Intranet managers, there is a real need for a forum to meet one another in a "not so" private, vendor-free environment to share tactics, offer advice based on past experience, and develop standards-based best practices as a model for other corporate Intranets...
Posted by: Stephane Cheikh | December 12, 2007 at 06:15 AM
Nice to hear from you, Stephane.
Yes, I agree, although I was joking about the name "intranet council". It's not easy to know how to organise this. There was a discussion on my blog a short while ago about how to create an online forum - but the problem is always how to decide who participates.
You can see some of the conversation here: Lack of online talk space
Do you have an opinion on how to organise something?
Posted by: Jane | December 12, 2007 at 08:01 PM