Employee blogging has benefits both for individuals and the organization. In order to inspire the creation of blog posts, we developed a novel topic suggestion system that connects blog readers with blog writers through sharing topics of interest. We describe our system and the results from an employee survey that informed its design. Author Keywords Recommendations, participation, social software, blog. ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous. General terms Design, Human Factors