Category: Employee Communication

  • New GM blog launches

    General Motors launched a new blog yesterday, the FYI Blog. In an introductory post, GM’s director of new media, Michael Wiley, outlined how GM intends this new blog to complement the current FastLane Blog (written by senior executives led by…

  • The next wave at work

    A report in the Financial Times on social media in the workplace highlights some terrific examples from companies who talk about the benefits to be gained from deploying blogs, wikis and RSS. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: […] More than 450 DrKW…

  • A promising future for intranets and social media

    “Make communications more exciting” is how I would summarize the sentiment of all who participated in the two Melcrum workshops on intranets and social media that I co-presented in London last week and in Manchester the week before. Indeed, that…

  • Coca-Cola blog for worldwide employee survey

    The Coca-Cola Company is using a blog as a communication channel through which the 55,000 employees of the global company can provide their views on Coca-Cola’s vision, mission and values. A report yesterday in Dutch business magazine Brisk includes an…

  • Spinning Vista and grassroots resentment

    So Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Vista will be delayed in its public release for consumers, not coming out until early 2007 instead of the expected later in 2006. Not surprisingly, this news has already attracted wide commentary in mainstream…