I really like the immediacy and collaborative capabilities that blogs offer, and I'm also finding wikis are increasingly common for sharing project knowledge as well.
Although Daptiv doesn't have a true blog feature, it does have two project applications that offer some really nice collaboration capabilities:
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News is the project "bulletin board," where team members can post one-off news items that don't require any feedback or discussion. Any project member (with appropriate permissions) can post status updates, share project-related information, or post other comments at any time, where the formal Status Update function is only available for project managers.
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Discussions is a little closer to blog-like functionality, although it is closer to an unmoderated forum, where a project member can post a topic for discussion and team members can reply in a threaded Q-and-A format, not unlike the forms here at the Daptiv Community.
These have been some of the lesser-used functions in Daptiv, primarily because these are the kinds of communication needs people traditionally have used email for. However, with collaborative technologies like blogs and wikis becoming more common, I've seen a renewed interest in these features within the Datpiv project space.
Because these items are completely integrated with the Daptiv project information, it decreases the number of places project team members have to look for project information, and with the RSS permalinks available through the Daptiv global tabs, these features can be treated like any other blog or newsfeed. You also have the item-level view restrictions and role-based permissions to limit which project team members can view the information stored in these applications.
For any organizations that are currently using, or are exploring the use of, blogs or other collaborative tools to support project information sharing, I'd recommend taking a look at these simple and intuitive applications that already built into the Daptive solution set.