The blog group met yesterday.
Primarily the conversation was about strategy. When you are in a room of believers, the biggest hurdle to overcome is your own belief.
We spent some time defining the problems that we see in the Department in terms of areas that lack formal processes or whose processes are not completely documented. Built into that are subject matter experts that hold all of the knowledge but can only give it to those who ask due to time limitations and maybe a tough of territorialness.
We then talked about what types of spaces we could create online to encourage the capture of what processes there are in place.
We talked about who really owned some of the common processes and who would the most likely candidate for a trial run. The idea is to take one person, collect the processes they "own" and see what falls out of it.
At the same time, we'll continue to evaluate software choices. What we don't want to happen is to jump into a software solution that doesn't fit and force a bunch of changes upon the group. Many group members are leery of change, and the closer we can map the blogging routine to their own current method of communication (email) the more useful it will be because the greater participation there will be.