The term blog is a contraction of Web log, and is the general term used for journal oriented content displayed in reverse chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Community, and Corporate blogs are weblogs published and used by an organization or group to reach certain organizational goals. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject of choice, such as news on the business you're in, or journal content on politics, or local news; some even function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Today, blogs focus on not just textual but also on photographs (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media. Corporate Blogs and Group systems are used to multi-author one or more blogs from the same system and are a great place for social interaction and collaboration.

The need for collaborative Group Blogs

• Need to disseminate news about your business
• Multiple people in your group to blog and work together
• Internal Knowledge should be distributed to peers for review and collaboration
• Emailing people is ineffective due to cluttered inboxes
• Related information needs to be always available to the full group

Enterprise Blogs with cyn.in

cyn.in is an open source collaborative knowledge management appliance delivered to entperises and small businesses in an On-Premise and SaaS model. cyn.in enables teams, companies or communities to create, manage, organize, store, version, search through, collaborate and share any kind of information. Traditional multi-author blogging systems do not offer the kind of flexibility that cyn.in can offer to both new and power bloggers. cyn.in provides a single Internet site for one or more authors to create, collaboratively coauthor, store, categorize and manage your cn.in blog site. Following are some of the unique features that cyn.in based group systems provide:

• Integrated WYSIWYG editing: With cyn.in you use a full-featured web based word processor to edit your content. You don't need to worry about how underlying HTML markup will be created, cyn.in's rich featured editor enables you to do everything from simple textual formatting (bold, underline, italics etc.) to complex wizard based HTML Table creation, to inline image placing and positioning.
• Internal Group staging area: The cyn.in blog has personal and group-wide staging areas. cyn.in enables you to have a personal previewing stage of your own for your upcoming blog posts. Refine by yourself and then publish to the Space where your cyn.in site's users can help you prepare to publish it to for everybody to see.
• Multi-author blogging: With cyn.in multiple authors can in your site can work together on blog posts, and publish them when they are ready to be seen by the world.
• Selective publishing: "Drafts" have their own life on cyn.in; your posts are always available to you in full preview mode. You can maintain your posts in a personal journal that is available to you only - publish only the posts that have group or global appeal.
• Automatic Revision Control: Every time a content piece or file is updated a new revision is created, the old version is retained as well. All changes can be previewed and restored as and when required.

Benefits of cyn.in Enterprise Blogs:

• Single system for everything you need: Create and manage your blog, collaborate and review on it and take it to the Internet audience
• Acess Blog and Internal knowledge from Internet anytime, anywhere
• Distribute news to internal and partner audience without dependence on email
• Allow teams to dynamically create and manage activity based groups
• Facilitate and manage organisational innovation
• Persist group activity and discussions over time
• Leverage the expertise of people across the organization
• Benefit from 'network effects' as the number of productive connections between employees in the organization increases and the quality of information shared increases

Who uses Community and Enterprise Blogs on cyn.in

Any group can use cyn.in's content management solution to manage, share, version and collaborate on information; these just are some of the broad categories where usage is typical.