Our blog world has evolved

Is there a better form of communication than a blog? Think about it; how can you get great information out to a large audience in a way that is fast, efficient and free?

Crash was looking for a way to formally document a project he was working on in a way that we easy to understand. There was a specific process that he wanted to write about and provide visual materals to support it. We have experience blogging so Crash had the great idea to implement blogging in our products.

It is not blogging in the traditional sense. It's documentation for processes and features, knowledge base articles, system maintenance notification and the list will grow. The end user has no idea a blog even exists. All they see is the rich content. The blog is just a content delivery tool.

The intent for now is to use labels to seperate our content and each area that utilizes that content will be label aware. Crash had the idea of making a custom blog control so that our programmers can easily implement this across all of our sites. My first two blog posts were kb articles that talked about how to use the blog control and how to use the blog class for a more custom implementation.

The best part is the savings. Google hosts the content; we just read and parse the atom. You may be asking yourself "does it scale"? Hmmmm, does Google scale? What if Google were to stop Blogger? That is simple; suck out the atom data into SQL.

All of our programmers have live writer now and Crash asked that everyone write at least one client facing post on any given sprint item.

This is very exciting. Our clients, users and even programmers are going to be blown away!

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