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Call to action to stop blocking

Published on August 29, 2009 · 8:23 am UK · 6 comments

in Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Social Media, Workplace

Two years ago, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz started a campaign called Stop Blocking as a means of drawing attention to a practice by some organizations to prevent access by employees to wide swathes of content on websites, blogs and other places online. During the past few years, Shel gathered information and published posts on [...]

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Twitter’s value in the workplace

Published on May 3, 2009 · 4:21 pm UK · 15 comments

in Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Social Media, Twitter, Workplace

FT columnist Lucy Kellaway had an amusing-to-read story recently about business executives using Twitter and asks whether those Twittering executives reveal too much. […] I think [Twitter] is potentially the best communication tool there is; the trouble is that most executives are making a complete hash of using it. Either they fill it with mundane [...]

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The risk of reputation destruction

Published on April 9, 2009 · 8:47 am UK · 8 comments

in Business, Employee Communication, Marketing, Public Relations, Reputation, Workplace

It’s a bit of a macabre topic, one that wouldn’t readily spring to your mind: the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, which came into effect in the UK a year ago, aims to ensure organizations are held to account if a fatal accident is caused by “gross failings” by managers. Organizations convicted of corporate [...]

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Two practical lessons about Twitter

Published on March 16, 2009 · 11:21 am UK · 14 comments

in Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Presentations, Public Relations, Social Media, Trends, Twitter, Web, Workplace

There’s a literal boat-load of activity going on where Twitter is the common factor. One example: I posted earlier about Twitter hashtag overload. Time now for something a lot more positive. I’ve picked two things that are well worth giving your time and attention to if you’re trying to determine the value of Twitter to [...]

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Survey highlights employee expectations from social networking in the European workplace

Published on November 11, 2008 · 9:19 am UK · 11 comments

in Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Europe, Social Media, Social Networks, Web, Workplace

A new survey on social networking in the workplace, released today by AT&T, shows strong evidence that enabling employees to use social networking tools as part of everyday working life leads to an increase in employee efficiency. “Enterprise 2.0,” a pan-European survey of more than 2,500 people in five countries – Great Britain, France, Germany, [...]

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CIPR offers new qualification in internal communication

Published on October 31, 2008 · 8:53 am UK · 2 comments

in Employee Communication, Professional Development, Public Relations, Social Media, Workplace

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), the PR industry body in the UK, has launched the Internal Communication Certificate, a professional qualification aimed at those in the first few years of their internal communication career, those considering a career in internal communication, or those working in a related field (media relations, for instance, or [...]

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Workplace collaboration on the 3D web

Published on October 21, 2008 · 1:09 pm UK · 2 comments

in Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Technology, Virtual Communities, Web, Workplace

A news item Shel and I discussed in FIR #390 yesterday was a report in the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Blog about a partnership Linden Lab, the developer of Second Life, is announcing this week with Rivers Run Red, a developer of content, applications and tools for virtual worlds like Second Life: […] [Rivers Run [...]

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Enterprise Twitter heats up with Present.ly

Published on September 16, 2008 · 5:47 pm UK · 5 comments

in Business, Employee Communication, Innovation, Technology, Twitter, Workplace

Last week, Yammer grabbed everyone’s attention as the Twitter-like tool to use behind the corporate firewall, where employees can enjoy the benefits of the informal and quick-fire interactions between people that characterize Twitter but in relative privacy. I tried it out and think it’s pretty cool, as do quite a few other people (and others [...]

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Easy collaboration with Dropbox

Published on September 15, 2008 · 8:16 am UK · 2 comments

in Employee Communication, Technology, Web, Workplace

I’m a big fan of Live Mesh, the service from Microsoft that is a great productivity tool when working with colleagues and clients in different locations, where you can synchronize different devices used by different people to share files. I’m also starting to be a big fan of Dropbox, a new collaborative document sharing service [...]

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Twitter for the enterprise from Yammer

Published on September 9, 2008 · 1:06 pm UK · 15 comments

in Business, Employee Communication, Innovation, Technology, Twitter, Workplace

However new start-up Yammer describes itself, I guess it’s inevitable that people are going to think of it as “Twitter for the enterprise.” The comparison is a good one, though, as what Yammer offers is, broadly speaking, the features and functionality of Twitter but in a more private way that’s geared for groups of employees [...]

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