Our next discussion is on collaboration and decision-making. If you do a Google search on ‘collaboration’, you’ll find a lot of information on collaboration tools and a little bit on collaboration – the discussions between people to get ideas, suggestions, help with decisions etc. We’ll be looking at just how tools will help collaboration.
One of [...]
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One of my favourite bloggers, Kathy Sierra, whose blog called Creating Passionate Users has been receiving death threats some of which have very unpleasant sexual references. She felt so threatened that she cancelled a workshop and has decided not to blog for the moment.
There have been over 1,000 comments left in response to her post [...]
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In the Next section of today’s (Tuesday) Sydney Morning Herald is a report about the reaction of Jonathon Schwartz to a negative blog by Matt Mullenweg. Mullenweg is well known in the open-source developers area. He collaborated with Mike Little to produceWordPress and has worked on numerous other online tools including Akismet which helps stop [...]
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I’ve received an email to say that the articles for the internal communication readings could not be accessed from Blackboard. If you are having these problems, then you can download them from here. Internal Communication (Rodney Gray) and Finding Right Direction (Gray) .
BTW for some handy links to internal communication have a look at [...]
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Some good opinions on corporate content were given at a Marketing Workshop (American Marketing Association) as reported by Toby Bloomberg in her blog Diva Marketing, and who conducted a session on social media. See the post titled Corporate Blog Content (Mar19, 2007).
I liked what Toby had to say and delved a little more into her [...]
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One of the references under the post on books is The Corporate Blogging Book by Debbie Weil. Chapter one is freely available at the The Corporate Blogging Book website and you really should read it. This chapter presents information about blogging in a question and answer format.
It looks at the difference between a blog [...]
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A corporate blog is an avenue for communication and marketing helping the organisation reach its goals. It helps to raise the profile of the organisation.
There are internal and external corporate blogs. Internal blogs tend to be used to provide information or for project management to improve internal communication. External blogs communicate information about products, services, [...]
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One of my favourite blogs is by Guy Kawasaki at (listed as How to change the World under blogroll). I stopped by there today and found some great information. There is a post about Carol Dweck’s article ‘The Effort Effect’. The article is about what makes some people excel and why others don’t. [...]
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Wikipedia is a great resource for information on blogs and corporate blogs. You’ll find general information about how blogs got started. Under corporate blogs there is a description of internal and external blogs along with references and links. Also listed are number of links to various corporate blogs, including Nokia, IBM and the Marriott. Blog [...]
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In the SMH recently was an article about Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, and his blog. He blogs regularly about how he spends his day and about his thoughts on a variety of issues. He believes that the new technologies allow for people to be more open and accessible.
However, some believe that he should [...]
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