Our Chief Operating Officer has among his other duties oversight of the One Halliburton branding initiative, which is charged with relabeling our chief business units in order to give our more newly acquired business units a Halliburton look and feel. Among these business units is KBR, formerly Kellogg Brown & Root.

So when HAL employees got the daily corporate newsletter over the e-mail, I saw a very cool thing: a KBR Senior Vice President has started a blog, complete with his personal views on business topics, reader comments, pictures, and in the future, videos. As has been noted before, blogs by higher-ups are an activity worth encouraging.