As I mentioned two posts ago, I've been heavily involved in an effort to get my employer to embrace new communications channels. Key among these being a wiki containing documentation for our SDK, an online user forum, and a best practices site for our partners (and ourselves).
These efforts have hit a roadblock; hopefully a temporary one. It's tough work moving a conservative company in a staid portion of the software industry to embrace new things.
I've been pouring my thoughts onto these corporate sites. I've invested a considerable amount of time in them. I'm understandably proud of them, though I admit they've still got a long, long way to go. Those of us who set these sites up realized we were taking a risk, but even though we'd mentally prepared ourselves, it was a rude shock when they were locked down one day for corporate review.
Over the next few days -- possibly weeks -- I'll be chronicling the whole saga here. I'm still debating whether to list the name of the company. I've decided to keep all the key players' names secret, unless they tell me otherwise.
It won't be nearly as much fun for me as talking about computer games, movies, books, and other things. But someone else may find it entertaining, in that slow-motion car accident sort of way.
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