Anyway

I chaired the RSS and Web­log day at Sey­bold San Fran­cisco 2003 (I’d put in a link but there’s noth­ing use­ful there that isn’t pass­word-pro­tec­ted). One of the pan­el­ists was talk­ing about using blogs for pro­ject man­age­ment, espe­cially when new people are expec­ted on the team. The idea is that new people can come up to speed quickly and don’t need to have mega-mounds of email for­war­ded to them. Sounds good, but in prac­tice I’m find­ing that people have a hard time adapt­ing to using more than one meth­od of com­mu­nic­a­tion. So many people use email for a simple todo-list track­er and pro­ject man­ager that they send email first and think about maybe doing a blog entry “if they have time” afterwards.

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