I just wanted to thank those who posted about our announcement at the beginning of the week.
I can assure you that you're providing a great source of encouragement, as well as showing us that a) we made the right decision, and b) it's worth pushing some of our "hidden bloggers" to get involved. There are many people inside our organisation I would like to see blogging, and your posts give me just what I need to convince them to get involved.
Here are some of the posts I have picked up on. I have tried to leave a comment on each site where possible.
I would like to give a special mention to Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz's excellent For Immediate Release podcast. In the latest show (#58), Neville devotes five minutes to our initiative and says some extremely kind and flattering things. I strongly encourage you to listen to the whole show, but if you just want to hear this piece you can download it here as a 2.8Mb WMA file (excerpt provided under the original terms of the FIR Creative Commons license)
If I missed you out, apologies and let me know by leaving a comment here.
Update: It's interesting that more recent posters are highlighting our "policy" rather than the actual community. Shows that getting guidelines in place is perhaps still more important that actually doing it. The only point I would make is that the list of 15 bullets we make our bloggers sign up to is intended as a code of practice rather than a policy - that's how we can keep it quite brief. If you're interested in seeing our employee blogging policy, we actually published that back in May.