Category Archives: Social software-Blogs

Research reveals conflicting priorities for communicators and CEOs

CEOs view good internal communication as fundamental to the success of the business, but their priorities when communicating to employees may be very different to those of their communication professionals..

May Day ***Digital Style***

Can you connect the dots?
Pretend for a second that you’re a CEO. Would you reveal your deepest, darkest secrets online? Would you confess that you’re an indecisive weakling, that your colleagues are inept, that you’re not really sure if you can meet payroll? Sounds crazy, right? After all, Coke doesn’t tell Pepsi what’s in the [...]

I ‘do’ have my own blog now

Christ’s man sues for blogging libel

Saw the story in the Times today about Sir Martin Sorrell who is embroiled in a libel case to clear his name. (When I heard him speak at the 500th Christ’s College event at the Guildhall he did me a favour, mentioning the importance of Latin America as an emerging market, just after I’d returned [...]

What’s your first tech memory?

“Earliest tech memory? Playing with my Dad’s LED tester. His job was in LED R&D back in the 1970s so we had a big heap of spare LEDs lying around, and a clever metal black box you could plug the bulbs into, flick a switch, and hey presto, the bulbs sprang into life.”
(My response [...]

Happy birthday blog

It’s official, my blog is a year old, so thanks again to Headshift for the excuse for getting it started, and to Charlie for kicking me in the right direction and for hosting it and the rest. I suppose the main thing I’ve noticed are just the obvious that popular stories get the most hits [...]

New internal communciation benchmark data

This internal communciation benchmark data report from Melcrum looks of interest, especially for me having just today launched a website in China - medicexchange:
“The number of internal communicators reporting staff increases in the last year varied across all regions, with the smallest percentage increase being 29% (Rest of World). However, it was respondents in Asia [...]

National blogging day’s coming

Yes, working away in the British Library for my sins on a Saturday. I didn’t read the do’s and don’ts properly and was told off for using a pen! Though luckily these days you can use headphones, so enjoying a bit of music to keep me smiling while I’m working on the notes. Talked [...]

ROI from blogs used over time within organisations

For an example of significant quantifiable evidence of ROI from blogs used over time within organisations Mark White (which I extracted from Soflow) kindly dug out this resource:http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/06/13/dark_blogs_case_study_01_a_european_pharmaceutical_group.php
 

London City Airport blog

Interesting to see that the web team at London City Airport have launched a public weblog. So no excuses for missing the flight from now on I guess..