As long as the column you are updating isn’t required, you should have no trouble blanking it out using an SPD workflow.

Frequently evaluating your company’s collaboration maturity is a great way to determine where knowledge gaps exist, what facets require additional education and how to assist people to expand their use of SharePoint. 

Show of hands, how many people are tired of explaining to users what a SharePoint Workflow is and how to navigate to the workflows???

Two things really. The first is that SharePoint Designer became free and all the ideas, projects and requests that had been labeled “I’ll do them when they spend the $” were all green lighted. If you have read my earlier posts and case study you’ll know that I have had a fair amount of time in front of people selling MOSS. In each group there are always a few or so the saying goes, but in this case they weren’t what you’re thinking. They were the minority, the ones who see the value and begin to research and think along side as you move forward. Needless to say the four key elements that are recurring eyebrow raisers are: Branding, Versioning, Security, and Workflows.