I’ve just been reading the drafts of the four interviews that Shel Israel posted in the past few days on The Red Couch, the blog that’s the focal point for developing the book on blogs that Shel and Robert Scoble are writing. Those interviews are with Jonathan Schwartz, COO of Sun Microsystems; Bob Lutz, Vice […]
Category: Internal Communication
Collaborative working with wikis
The Financial Times has an excellent report on why wikis (definition) are an effective collaborative tool for the workplace, quoting examples from three prominent companies: "It helps to think of [a wiki] as a sort of online whiteboard," says Gary Boone, research manager at Accenture‘s technology laboratories. "We set up a blog and wiki system […]
Add your voice to new Edelman survey
Edelman PR is conducting research for their second annual "New Frontiers in Communications" survey. Like the first one published last August, the 2005 survey attempts to learn more about the variety of information channels that companies use to communicate with their employees and, to a certain extent, with external audiences, as well as to discover […]
Podcasting: Adding the human and informal touch
Some say it’s a revolution that will change radio broadcasting and people’s listening habits for ever. Others say it’s a fad that’s of limited appeal and use beyond geeks and enthusiasts. Whatever anyone says, you’d have to admit that something that, in just eight months, has rocketed out of nowhere and today got big companies […]
Survey: Engaged employees = engaged customers
A feature in the Financial Times last week on how to engage employees (paid sub access) referenced a study by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement at Northwestern University in the US. Carried out last year, the study surveyed 100 US media companies to find out how engaged their staff were and whether […]
Now 3,600 internal blogs at IBM
Fredrik Wacka posted a great snapshot report yesterday on internal blogging at IBM: Through the central blog dashboard at the intranet W3, IBMers now can find more than 3,600 blogs written by their co-workers. As of June 13 there were 3,612 internal blogs with 30,429 posts. Internal blogging is still at a stage of testing […]
Blogs: No substitute for personal communication and trust in the workplace
PR Week published a pretty good piece about policies and guidelines for employee blogging last week. The article includes much of the type of counsel and advice on why companies should have polices or guidelines that you’d expect to see now, given previous media reporting on this topic as well as the widely-reported examples of […]
Interview: Angela Sinickas and Tudor Williams – June 22, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel enjoyed a 49-minute conversation with Angela Sinickas, ABC and Tudor Williams, ABC, two of the leading internal communications measurement authorities in the business. About our conversation partners: A pioneer in the field of organizational communication measurement, Angela Sinickas has been measuring the effectiveness of communications […]
Ballmer interview turns communication upside down
Watching Robert Scoble’s video interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the confirmation for me that formal, pre-planned and carefully-controlled organizational communication has now reached an evolutionary end point. Traditionally, planning and managing communication in organizations is a function managed by people skilled in particular areas of communication (corporate, marketing, PR, investor, internal, etc). So […]
Mission impossible statements
Most large companies have a mission statement, an expression that sets out the purpose of the organization or what the organization intends to achieve over time. In some large organizations, it’s not uncommon to walk around an office and see posters displayed with a statement to remind everyone of the organization’s mission (which some people […]
Webinar: Blogs and internal communication
If you have responsibility for internal communication and want to find out how you can use blogs effectively within your organization, you might want to consider participating in a 90-minute webinar on Wednesday 31 August in which I will be one of the speakers. Blogs and their implications on internal communication – are you ready […]
New online resource for internal communicators
Melcrum Publishing, the global communication publisher, today launched The Hub, a new online knowledge resource for internal communicators with hundreds of resources to help communicators do their jobs more effectively. The first of its kind in the UK according to Melcrum, The Hub provides members with resources that include networking, news and analysis, learning guides […]
FIR Interview – Jonathan Mast and Aidan Hagood – October 24, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel enjoyed a 24-minute conversation with Jonathan Mast and Aidan Hagood. Jonathan is a senior communications specialist with Sedgwick Claims Management Services; Aidan is the communications department admin. Together, they host “QuickCast,” arguably the first completely internal podcast. Download the conversation here (MP3, 9MB), or sign […]
CEOs say blogs are useful
CNET News: A growing number of American chief executives rate blogs high as employee communication tools, though a majority of them remain skeptical about starting their own, a new study shows. About 59 percent of CEOs surveyed said they find Web logs, or blogs, useful for internal communications, while 47 percent see them as tools […]
Sound comfort for sailors
It’s comforting to know that HMS Daring, the first of the Royal Navy’s latest Type 45 destroyers launched on Wednesday, is fitted with the most advanced state-of-the-art weapons and defence systems. For instance: […] The main armament for the new destroyers will be the world-beating Principal Anti Air Missile System (PAAMS) – a collaboration between […]
Pricey freedom of the press
BBC News: Danish-Swedish dairy giant Arla Foods says the ongoing boycott of Danish products in the Middle East had so far cost it between £40m and £50m. As the Muslim world refuses to buy Danish goods in protest over cartoons published in a Danish newspaper, Arla is losing £1m a day. Arla has also had […]