Some notes on enterprise blogging - behind the firewall

An interesting post  about the experiences of introducing blogging behind the firewall at, I guess, BMC Software. By the sounds of it, it hasn't been an unqualified success, but some good points raised, especially about the inability of some of the more popular web services [bloglines, del.icio.us, flickr] to operate on content that's firewalled away.

I also wonder if the takeup rate is influenced by the types of people being targeted. In the linked posting, it seems as if the groups targeted were technical. So, +1 for techies' natural desire to be early adopters and play with new stuff, but -10 for  their desire to document and write. 

So, although it's probably easier to make the initial beachhead in IT / development and other technical departments, it's probably harder to get a blogging culture established.