An interesting article that shed's light on how corporate blogging can impact the enterprise. Ironically, we pretty much work this way at OpenLink and this was one of the overriding reasons for adding weblog functionality to Virtuoso.
If we can use blogs as electronic filing cabinets, then the obvious need to integrate weblog data with other corporate data sources for a myriad of other data, information, and knowledge creation and dissemination efforts should be pretty obvious. To quote
Dave Pollard the article author:
"In a previous post, The Weblog as Filing Cabinet , I proposed that business weblogs could be used to codify and 'publish', in a completely voluntary and personal manner, the individual worker's entire filing cabinet. The key advantage of providing such a capability is vastly increased access to, and sharing of, a company's knowledge. This post outlines a content architecture that could enable this to occur.
This architecture would have two principal components: The Enterprise Content Architecture and the Desktop Content Architecture".
Read On.