[consulting] Help with Forrester Corporate Blogging Survey

[Boris Mann]

All:

Forrester is doing a survey of "corporate blogging". They want to  
include Drupal. Actually, they wanted to include Bryght, but I ended  
up saying no because a) we're too busy and b) corporate blogging is  
not the right match for what we do out of the box (i.e. we don't have  
a corporate blogging install profile...yet).

So, Charlene Li is going to cover Drupal regardless. She wants all  
the info and is including it, because other vendors have included  
Drupal as a competitor (!!...my guess is Six Apart/MT, or maybe  
iUpload). Wordpress and Roller are two other open source communities  
that are being included. Not sure how they are coordinating  
responses. Well, I assume Matt is doing WP, and maybe someone at Sun  
is doing Roller.

They are OK with running this through a wiki. So I uploaded the  
original to our public dev wiki, and Roland took everything in the  
Excel file and stuck it in wiki -- http://dev.bryght.com/t/wiki/ 
ForresterCorpBlogging. If anyone that has some time could go through  
and add some info to the questions that pique their interest...that  
would be great.

P.S. What is corporate blogging? Good question. I talked about it on  
my Bryght blog [1], which is what got me roped into this in the first  
place.

There are actually two scenarios that were shared with me. One is a  
public multi-user blogging site that. The second is an internal  
intranet-style site that does blogging, wikis, competitive  
intelligence, file sharing, etc. etc. So keep those two use cases in  
mind as you're looking at (answering?) the questions.

If people are motivated to write up descriptions/use cases/module  
lists, that would be helpful. I'm also looking for volunteers to help  
put together and demo one of each of these scenarios. I think we've  
got the fairly simple corporate blogging stuff under control, but  
setting up and configuring the mega-intranet is a fair bit of work.  
You'll need to demo it for Forrester somewhere around March 29th.  
Aren't deadlines fun?

[1] http://bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/what-does-corporate-blogging-mean

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