Yesterday our media partner for the Top Small Workplaces recognition project, The Wall Street Journal, announced a completely new design for its flagship website, online.wsj.com.  Among many new features there such as tabs that allow you to view photos, video and comments tied to a particular article is the beta version of a social networking portal called the Journal Community.

I got my email from the Journal telling me about their new web design and the Journal Community yesterday morning, and by this morning there were already 122 groups that subscribers had created, ranging from "Flying: General Aviation" to "Military & Law Enforcement Body Armor Forum."

We joined the fray yesterday in creating our own Top Small Workplaces Journal Community group.  You can do a couple of things once you have logged in to your subscriber profile and joined the group:

• Read and comment on current topics (I wrote a primer post on Top Small Workplaces for those who are unfamiliar)
• Add your own topic for discussion
• See group members' profiles
• Invite members of other groups in the community to join our group (very cool)

If you're a WSJ subscriber, you can log in here, and then click on the Journal Community link on the right, just under the WSJ logo at the top of the page, to go to the Communities area. Then on the lefthand menu, click on Small Business and then Managing a Business to find our group.

If you're not currently a WSJ subscriber, you can visit the same page to subscribe today – the best deal by far is getting both print and online subscriptions for $99 per year; that's only $10 more than getting either print or online – and then follow the instructions above to find us.

I hope to see you there, and I look forward to getting some more great discussions going where we can learn from each other's employee engagement best practices and workplace team building strategies.