[consulting] Help with Forrester Corporate Blogging Survey

[Michael Haggerty]

Good news! 

Some people on this list might not be familiar with Forrester, but what to
take from this is they provide high-level (read: expensive) reports on the
state of the art in information technology to support decision makers. Many
Fortune 100 companies consult Forrester as a standard practice for risk
management, and the fact they are recognizing Drupal as a relevant platform
is a matter of great consequence.

The idea they are putting this under the perview of 'corporate blogging',
however, concerns me. This categorization could become the predominant
perception of the platform amongst IT decision makers for a long time. The
rest of the content management capabilities could easily be overlooked in
favor of this single dimension.

How do other people feel about this?

M 

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> [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Boris Mann
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:53 PM
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> Subject: [consulting] Help with Forrester Corporate Blogging Survey
> 
> 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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