The Business Blog Solution

Blog
hosting ideas: Some help from Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World "Blog hosting services, and which ones to choose for a business blog, are a question that arises very frequently."

Mr. Hurlbert, another option that you aren’t yet aware of is Ideascape.
Let me tell you about it. Ideascape provides an internet managed service dedicated
solely to businesses that want/need a deep web presence; one that has next-generation
publishing capabilities. The service includes multiple blogs, e-commerce, forums,
robust taxonomy and tagging, threaded discussions, chat, security, news aggregations,
the ability to publish dynamic and static content inside and outside the business
as well as many other rich features and robust functions.



Along similar lines as Yahoo 360, Ideascape uses tags or folksonomies (think
del.icio.us.com) to give users in organizations the ability to tag pictures,
pages, podcasts, and posts with their own words, no matter who created the content.
For a more formal approach, users can also use a robust taxonomy system along
with tags to post and find information that is inside and outside the business.
From the organization's interactive meeting place, anyone with privileges can
blog or create pages, podcasts, etc. Information about challenges and opportunities
facing the business can be published for feedback both internally or externally.
Not just for technology trends, these posts can be ideas and insights on subjects
important to the business, and its employees and customers as well. For example,
employees, departments can post ideas/thoughts about:

• the Company’s Offerings (new! products, services)
• Strategy
• Human Resources
• Operations
• Information Technology
• PR
• Marketing
• Etc.

What is the difference between Ideascape and Yahoo 360?

• Privacy! Users have total control over what information is made available
  to whom, whether public or private.
• Access to full workflow management that can trigger actions and events.
• Built-in project management.
• Broad folksonomy allows any user to tag content as opposed to a narrow
  one which limits tagging.
• The taxonomy allows users to classify content into categories and subcategories;
  it allows multiple lists of categories for classification (controlled vocabularies)
  and offers the possibility of creating thesauri (controlled vocabularies that
  indicate the relationship of terms) and taxonomies (controlled vocabularies
  where relationships are indicated hierarchically).
• Threaded discussions.
• Access to archived media from universities, research centers, and subscription
  media outlets.
• Book publishing capabilities.
• Forums
• Wikis
• Instead of key word search, Ideascape finds and discovers ideas and concepts.

For more info, visit us at advancinginsights.com.