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title: "Why Software Applications Need Product Blogs, and Why They Don’t Get Them"
date: 2008-04-16
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# Why Software Applications Need Product Blogs, and Why They Don’t Get Them
However, I'm convinced that even internal software, which never sees the light of WWW, still needs a blog as much or more than products sold online. Even so, numerous corporate restrictions, standards, and culture will present seemingly insurmountable barriers to blogs.

I can think of six major ways product blogs can benefit users and project teams. Product blogs can

- Provide a venue for product announcements

- Allow users to submit product bugs

- Allow users to submit feature requests

- Provide a roadmap preview for the product

- Enable a point of connection between users and project teams

- Provide a way to teach advanced tips to users

The following sections expand on each point above.