Chris Garrett has a nice list of suggested ways to use blogs as a piece of the project management communication puzzle. Project Management Blogs - How to Run Your Project on the Web:
Check out these ways blogs might be used for project management:
- Progress Report Blogs
- Discussion Blogs
- File Store Repository
- Multi-Media Knowledge Base
- Team Blogs
- Documentation Blog
- RFC Blog
Check the full post for his thoughts on each of these. One idea that may be included in the nuances of the items of is that of a What's Happening on my Tasks blog. It isn't so much a progress report or discussion as it is short posts on what is going well and what isn't going so well. The goal / hope would be that the distributed team would follow these and be able to provide advice / get help from people who aren't immediate cube-farm neighbors.