This blog was created to communicate to students doing my course Managing Organisational Communication. The benefit was to show what a blog was, how easy it is to create, and the connections or links that can be created. I would recommend it as a useful tool for teachers. Most systems require users to login [...]
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I used the Box widget to load up some reading for the last lecture. However, it seems that from some locations people are not able to see this Box. No doubt it is being blocked. So I’ll add some of the documents in this post. The most relevant readings are Balancing Act and Sustaining the [...]
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If you haven’t already done so, you’ll need to fill in the Beyond Reason preparation guide. This requires a bit of time! Think of a conflict situation you have experienced and fill in the guide as best you can. Don’t worry about getting definitions of the terms, the real aim is to think about your [...]
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Last lecture I talked about jerks at work. It just so happens that Bob Sutton is the author of a book, The No Asshole Rule, that talks about jerks and the cost to organisations of hiring jerks. Things have gone wild in response to Guy Kawasaki’s blog on this very topic. In this post he [...]
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I received an email yesterday urging me to check out the virtual characters now available through Oddcast. I’m interested in text-to-speech (TTS) which involves synthesizing recorded bits of speech into something that sounds like human speech. TTS involves typing out what you want the synthesizer to say. However, its not easy to recreate natural sounding [...]
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While surfing the digital space I found some useful material which will be useful for assignments due later on down the track. The Workplace Blog is a useful source of information on the use of Web 2.0 technology. In the lasted post (23 Mar) is information about a survey conducted by McKinsey on the use [...]
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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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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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