Our office has about 75 employees, most in Norfolk, with smaller offices in Tampa, FL and Wytheville, VA. Add on spouses and kids, and that's several hundred people tied into our firm in some way, each living life to the fullest.

Needless to say, our email inboxes are regularly filled with notices of cookie sales, art auctions, local charity pleas, and any manner of personal causes in no way releated to business.

It occurred to me that the perfect remedy was an office blog, where any employee could post their personal cause or accomplishment, and employees could browse without affecting productivity. So I set one up.

<crickets> chirp chirp chirp </crickets>. Interrupted only by a couple complaints from people too bothered to waste their time browsing a blog when they just as effectively do so reading email. And this from people 15 years my junior and presumably more web-savvy than I.

Never underestimate the weight of inertia.