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Jun. 21st, 2010 12:43 pmThis morning our company officially announced to its staff the new intranet site, which is an internal staff-only website with all kinds of resources that none of us will ever make use of more than once or twice a year, and absolutely nothing useful like an up-to-date staff directory or a flow chart of how our departments function. It has a newsfeed from the Tribune, though, so that's okay!
I sound more cynical and bitter than I am, really. I'm used to it -- I've worked at a university library, after all, and university libraries are traditionally known for their counterintuitive website structure. It's not that they don't want you to have the information, they just don't know how to go about presenting it to you. It makes sense to people with library science degrees, or so I'm told.
Anyway, I was one of the few people who competently managed to log onto the intranet this morning, and I was alternating between "breaking it" and "walking other people through the login process" when I discovered that the intranet has a social-networking feature. That's right: everyone in the company gets a blog. Mind you, it's a blog locked away from public view, accessible only to other members of the company, and yet.
I really need to stop taking this kind of thing as a personal challenge, because the urge to conquer my company's blogosphere is strong. Not that most of the staff are likely to use the blogs or even visit that area of the site; as far as I can tell this site will be useful to one person, me, as a way of finding links to the actual useful pages when asked to do so by others.
Though given that most of what I talk about on this blog is "stupid things that happened at work", "pornography", and "Fandom", I'm not sure what I'd actually be able to put in a blog my boss is going to read. I'm sure he likes pornography, and I know he likes Doctor Who, but both are generally frowned upon at work.
I sound more cynical and bitter than I am, really. I'm used to it -- I've worked at a university library, after all, and university libraries are traditionally known for their counterintuitive website structure. It's not that they don't want you to have the information, they just don't know how to go about presenting it to you. It makes sense to people with library science degrees, or so I'm told.
Anyway, I was one of the few people who competently managed to log onto the intranet this morning, and I was alternating between "breaking it" and "walking other people through the login process" when I discovered that the intranet has a social-networking feature. That's right: everyone in the company gets a blog. Mind you, it's a blog locked away from public view, accessible only to other members of the company, and yet.
I really need to stop taking this kind of thing as a personal challenge, because the urge to conquer my company's blogosphere is strong. Not that most of the staff are likely to use the blogs or even visit that area of the site; as far as I can tell this site will be useful to one person, me, as a way of finding links to the actual useful pages when asked to do so by others.
Though given that most of what I talk about on this blog is "stupid things that happened at work", "pornography", and "Fandom", I'm not sure what I'd actually be able to put in a blog my boss is going to read. I'm sure he likes pornography, and I know he likes Doctor Who, but both are generally frowned upon at work.
