The 2,800 active blogs at IBM
In the blogosphere, everybody knows that Microsoft or Sun Microsystems have hundreds of bloggers. But did you know that there are more than 2,800 active blogs at IBM? The thing is that you can’t access these blogs, because they are mainly reserved for internal use. They come from all the parts of the company, and some are even used to manage projects at IBM.
Philippe Borremans, Public Relations Manager at IBM Belgique/Luxembourg, gives some details in “Blogging at IBM,” an entry posted on the IAOC’s blog (International Association of Online Communicators). Here are some numbers given by this IBM’er.
At this moment we have about 2800 internal weblogs (on a total worldwide population of about 330.000 IBM’ers.) with about 12700 entries. About 200 blogs have more than 10 posts on them…
In the case of blogs used to manage projects, IBM has very well understood the potential of the tool.
In this case blogs are used to get the team on “the same page” with regards to progress being made or issues being tackled.
Of course, IBM also has external blogs, written by some very well-known developers. You’ll find a list of these developers on this page aptly named Blogs at developerWorks.
Note: Thanks to Neville Hobson who covered the story in “IBM Has 2 800 Internal Blogs,” a note published by Webpronews.com.
