Internal communications using RSS

I was asked the other day “a way of setting staff up with an internal RSS aggregator that they then use to pull content from the company’s intranet? Rather than something that draws feeds from external sites”. And there are plenty of good products out there to deal with this, and good advice. But what inspired me was the thought that using WordFrame’s autopost feature you could set up a blog for each employee, as it turns feeds into posts. So in effect use the internal RSS feeds to start the individual blogs off with enterprise directed content, and use this in turn to help to spur employees to get their own blog going as well as the corporate content. And this in turn would inspire sharing of each others feeds. Neat, if that fits your empowering needs.

A busy week

The web 2.0 conference of the week: “The Office 2.0 Conference is a collective experiment organized every year in San Francisco, CA and aimed at discovering the future of online productivity & collaboration.” Speaker’s include Ross Mayfield, who from Twitter appears he’s been busy with a wiki for Hurricane Gustav emergency planning. He’s also been a participant on IT Counts, which is platformed by WordFrame, with WF’s David Terrar also at the event.