I’m cautiously optimistic about the future of internal communication in Europe following Driving Business Performance Through Employee Engagement, the two-day conference on internal communication I spoke at that took place in Amsterdam on 16 and 17 September. About 80 senior communicators participated from organizations across Europe, from more than 18 countries: from Norway to Italy, […]
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How to get your blog noticed: 3-step alt method
Robert Scoble’s post yesterday on How your blog will get discovered provides some helpful tips on what you should do with pinging, Technorati, etc. Then there’s Shelley Powers rejoinder This is Wrong on Oh So Many Levels that provides some extremely sensible advice focusing on content and actual writing. Bloggers, pay no attention to such misguided […]
Net security threats growing fast
More than 30,000 PCs per day are being recruited into secret networks that spread spam and viruses, a study shows. According to a BBC News report today, it’s too early to say whether the Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP will make a positive difference to the numbers of PCs being compromised. The report […]
Difficulty in commenting on Blogger blogs
I find it really irritating that if I want to leave a comment on someone’s blog, and that blog is hosted on Blogger, I’m presented with a log in dialog before I can comment. If I have a Blogger blog, then I log in. If I don’t, I can’t leave a comment, or I have […]
Great communication, Blogrolling – not!
While my Blogrolling blogroll seems to be working ok today (unlike over the weekend – see post), I see from the comments in the breaking news page on their website that there are an increaing number of very unhappy users, especially those who have taken up the paid Blogrolling service. What’s driving the unhappiness seems […]
Brand extension best practice
The creator of one of the world’s most famous guns, the AK-47 assault rifle, launched another weapon in the UK today – Kalashnikov vodka. Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented the AK-47 after being shot by German soldiers during World War II, said he wanted to continue “the good name” of his gun. Reuters | […]
Rescuing relationships for Blogrolling
The frustrations of the past four days for Blogrolling users – me included – look like coming to a positive conclusion. Last night, there finally was a detailed explanation from Blogrolling’s Ross Rader on what happened re the planned migration to a new server – and what went wrong over the weekend and why there […]
Amazon delivers with Star Wars DVD
As always, Amazon.co.uk delivers (pun intended) and exceeds expectations. This morning, I received delivery of the Star Wars DVD box set. That’s great in itself (so no guesses on what I’m going to be spending time on tonight, no matter what!) My expectation was exceeded primarily because the package arrived much earlier than I expected. […]
New Sony blog service?
This is a time when I wish I spoke Japanese. There’s a Japanese-language website called So-net blog with a copyright notice at the bottom saying ‘Sony Communication Network Corporation’ and the only English word you can see in the help page text is ‘blog.’ Is this another consumer blog service Sony is launching in Japan? […]
Have something worth talking about
Seth Godin posted a list of 10 lies to protect the status quo. The one I think is especially spot on is lie #10: Who you know is more important than what you do. This is how Seth expounds #10: When your idea is gaining traction, the easy and obvious and natural thing to do […]
RSS: Orange not blue
Those little orange XML buttons you see on blogs and websites are becoming more prolific. They signify a link to the site’s RSS webfeed. So a quick right-click and it’s easy to add a feed, a new channel, to your RSS reader (I use FeedDemon and it’s dead easy). For some time, I’ve had this […]
The fun new business model
From gapingvoid: The corporate business model of the (very near) future is childishly simple to understand. Nike, Dell and Coca-Cola already use it, and most big companies are gearing up to implement it asap. The company is divided into two parts, Part A and Part B. Part A is much, much smaller than part B. […]
Blogging policies on the horizon
It’s just a matter of time before companies will implement policies or guidelines on blogging by employees. A report in Fortune magazine on 21 September discusses the benefits to companies of employees blogging, citing Sun Microsystems (about 100 employees) and Microsoft (about 1,000 employees) as leaders in this area. The article’s highly positive focus includes a […]
The monolithic monopoly game
Stuart Bruce is seriously unhappy with Royal Mail in the UK. Stuart has started a new business and recounts a sorry tale of dealing with an organization that supposedly provides an essential service to businesses, yet which seems wholly incapable of understanding simple business/service concepts, never mind actually wanting a customer’s business: The Royal Mail […]
Windows XP SP2 CD is everywhere
On a visit to my neighbourhood news store this morning, I noticed that the rack with all the computer magazines is chock full of mags sporting a cover-mounted Windows XP SP2 upgrade CD. What’s interesting about this is that these magazines aren’t just from The Netherlands – in addition, there are mags from Germany, France, […]
Sun’s true computing utility
This is the first time I’ve read an article on a (for me) relatively complex technology concept that enabled me to achieve all four of my ‘knowledge from communication’ goals: Understand it. Enjoy reading it. Warmly congratulate the writer for his ability to explain the concept in a way someone like me can understand it. […]
If US presidential candidates were women
For the first time in weeks, I just haven’t had time today to blog. Rather than leave a void, here’s a quick something for the weekend to close the gap. John Dvorak has a great collection of Photoshopped pics of the US presidential candidates as if they were women, US high school yearbook style. My, […]
Metroblogging Amsterdam
I discovered a great collection of city blogs the other day – Metroblogging.com. Metblogs (as they’re called) are a hyper-local look at what’s going on in a city with bloggers who live in a city providing their perspective on daily life. Currently, there are metblogs for Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, […]
Pinging Technorati with TypePad
Letting blog tracking services know when your blog is updated is one of the means of helping raise awareness of your blog and letting the world know you have new content. The automatic way of doing this is through pinging (definition). If you’re a TypePad user like me, your blog will automatically ping Blo.gs and […]
Being open on Skype has its risks
I’m a believer in Skype, the internet phone service that has on average about half a million people online at any one moment. I started using Skype in July. Calling other Skype users is totally free, which means I can chat with Skyped friends and family in places as far apart as the US, Costa […]