Project Blogs; The New Standard For Project Communications?

According to PMI, project communications is 90% of a project manager's job. And what better communications tool do we have today than weblogs (or blogs)? Imagine everyone on your project team, and all project stakeholders, entering daily updates in a vibrant project blog site.

What better way to communicate project status to a broad group-- not only adding blog entries for periodic status reports-- but having entries with links to project documents, entries for issues, updates, or anything else going on with the project. It also allows for reader subscriptions, easy searches, and categorization of information. Best of all, with today's tools, it's a cinch to create.

More and more project managers are starting to create weblogs for their projects, and have been reporting great success. For more info, check out this article from InfoWorld on publishing a project weblog...


Publishing a project Weblog InfoWorld Column 2003-03-28 By Jon Udell