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Novell Cool Blogs – hopefully the final update

We’re in the home straight; final testing for the new Novell Cool Blogs.

I’ve been hitting the test system hard in the last week – making suggestions to the Novell team that are making this happen. There are two main updates – the plan is now to use WordPress for the blog infrastucture; second launch is due ‘next week’.

The internal test system looks really great; all Novell branded and look and feel – but with live blog content. All of your favourite features should be there – comments, trackback, pings – as well as some unique blog posts from Novell’s strongest personalities.

I’ll leave it until announcement time so as not to spoil the surprise – but watch out – this is going to be big!

Special kudos to Mr Jared Nyland from Novell’s web team; he’s been awesome.

Building a Community

Guy Kawasaki has a great post tonight on Building a Community.

I’m not going to post it here – but take a read.

We’re right in the middle of getting the Novell CoolBlogs kicked off – this is great timely reading.

[Edit: this also got picked up by Robert Scoble; who added ‘go visit your community’. My comment back was this was great for well funded evangelists. What I also meant to add was that it also only works if you have clusters of community members in places you go.]