Which free blog service is best for a 16-40 person work team, sharing information across multiple locations?
I know this is more of a slashdot kind of question, but I figure a lot of you all (including non-members and never-responded-before/lurkers) have blogs of your own or have messed around with them...
I'm looking for one to try out at work, to replace the 5-20 work co-ordination emails that are getting sent out each day. Because we all work within 16 public-school sites, we don't all have direct land lines, and only two central offices have easily accessible fax machines. We lean on people's personal cell phones way too much. Finally, not all of our people are tech-savvy enough to use the high-end functions of email for contact-management, attachments, stars/flags/labels etc. Heck, I'm not that good with labels...
So an ideal blog would (no particular order):
-Allow multiple posters, multiple privacy settings
-Allow write-as-you-go piling on of new tags/categories
-Have a TOS that permits this
-Allow easy downloading of any page for reference later
-Allow us to export our posts and take them away
-?
Anybody have an inkling about blogger, typepad, wordpress, backpackit/basecamp? Else?
John, Linus and I road-tripped to my opening night on Saturday. On the way back, we stopped at a corner liquor store so Linus could get his preferred hooch on the way to my birthday party. While John and I were parked, I happened to glance at the building next door and see the above sign.
Such a brutal weekend. My friend's pregnant wife SERIOUSLY impeded any work I needed to get done this weekend. 8+ hours round trip to have her complain because she's lonely, she was mean before she was pregnant. JUST so I can go back and maybe waste more time.
I saw this being made in "V is for Vendetta" this weekend. I have never had eggs this way before, and now I want to try it.
TOAD-IN-A-HOLE
1 egg
1 slice bread
Butter
Spread butter on bread. Cut out a circle from the center with a biscuit cutter or glass. Place bread frame and circle, butter side down, in a greased frying pan. Break egg into the hole in the bread. Fry on low heat until the white is set. Break yolk and flip to cook egg through. Flip over circle too. Cook until browned.
So, pretty much right after I posted, my boss came in and asked me to step into his office.
That was red light number one. We usually just yell from one office to the other if we need anything.
Then when I come in, he asks me to sit down. Red light number two. I don't think anyone ever sits down in anyone else's office.
Then he shut the door. That's when I pretty much knew I was getting fired.
Or laid off. Or whatever you want to call it. Basically they said they really didn't have enough work for me. True enough. I mean, Killoggs bears witness to the amount of work I do not have to do there. He said they would pay me my next few pay periods. I don't know exactly what that means, they were very vague about it. And then he said not to feel like I needed to come in the rest of the week and, as a matter of fact, not to feel like I needed to stay the rest of the day.
Wow. So up until that point I did really well, but you know, fuck if exactly two tears didn't spill out of my stupid eyes. I'm pretty sure everyone that I know in real life on Killoggs has seen me cry at least once. I cry at almost all movies. But I have never cried at work. And you know what? I've never been laid off either, come to think of it. I've always been the one to leave. So this was kind of new. And I'm PMSing and I just turned 28 and you know, life hasn't been the greatest. Still. Only two tears. One for each eye, then I pulled it together.
I spent the morning DELETING ANY TRACE OF KILLOGGS off my computer. And just deleted all of my personal files. Uninstalled the various messenger services and e-mail alerts. The usual. I had a lot of personal stuff, so I asked if I could fed ex some to myself, which my boss was fine with. Then my other boss came in and asked if I could take a break for a minute and get some tea with him downstairs. Okay, whatever.
So he orders his tea and asks what I want. I didn't want anything. I'd just had coffee. So he says how they've been putting this off for a while because they like having me around the office, whatever, they're lazy and didn't feel like going through it, all that stuff. Then he says the girl who originally had my job is moving back. She wants to start a family, maybe go back to school. So this job is now perfect for her. Even less hours than I have now and ... well, she doesn't have my crazy liberal views, she grew up where they live now, they started the company with her and quite frankly, she's much more interested in their line of work than I am. I can't say I was suprised. I always wondered what would happen if she decided to move back.
He goes on about how this probably isn't a bad thing for me, I would probably be better off at a real company where I could get real benefits and actually have real work to do and I've probably learned everything I can learn working with them, maybe now I can persue 'this acting thing' full time. The silver lining speech.
They want me to come in another day this week to show the other girl anything that's changed. So I guess I'll do that and figure out exactly how much severance I'm getting, if any.
Tonight, after martial arts, I will probably drink a 40.
I need some new headphones for at-work use... these "wrap around" style ones are staring to hurt my ears. I mean, I've got those big "pro" headphones at home, so I guess I could use those too. Then it will be obvious that I'm wearing headphones while working, so my cow-orkers won't just walk but behind me and start talking when I can't hear them.
I don't need anything high-end (since it's for use at the office), but fair quality.
Anyone have any suggestions for a good at-work set of 'phones?
