Time for a reality check

Posted on October 30, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, intranet, organisational culture, social media | Tags: , , , , |

I’m reading an increasing amount of stuff taking swipes at social media along the lines of … it was all just hype … it’s not delivering what it promised etc. I guess it was only a matter of time before we switched from build-it-up mode to knock-it-down mode which so often seems to pervade our [...]

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Intranet evolution …

Posted on August 29, 2008. Filed under: blogging, intranet, social media, social networking | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

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Blogger relations …

Posted on July 14, 2008. Filed under: trivia | Tags: , , , |

I tried to write a post this morning, but the blog wouldn’t let me.
Me: What’s up with you today?
Blog: Don’t play the innocent with me …
Me: What have I done?
Blog: You take me for granted …
Me: Well, yes … I suppose I do – you are, after all, just a bunch of code designed to [...]

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Recreate or integrate … that is the question?

Posted on July 7, 2008. Filed under: Facebook, Web 2.0, blogging, intranet, social media, social networking | Tags: , , , , , , |

As we’ve busily rolled out one social media tool after another within BT, one question has got bigger and bigger in my mind and has become increasingly troublesome … what’s the right balance between recreating stuff on our intranet that already exists on the internet, and just integrating tools from the internet into our intranet [...]

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Blogging inside BT

Posted on May 7, 2008. Filed under: blogging | Tags: , , |

Last week we launched a single internal blogging platform on the BT Intranet – based on WordPress technology. This is great for a number of reasons:

BT management is prepared to allow its employees to express themselves and their opinions on ‘unregulated’, self-publishing platforms … something, perhaps, we take for granted at BT but which I [...]

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In sickness and in health …

Posted on February 8, 2008. Filed under: blogging | Tags: , |

For me, having a blog is a bit like being in a relationship. It’s definitely not something to be entered into lightly …
When you start out, you’re nervous about the dynamics of it – will I have enough to say – will I be able to keep the conversation going, will people be interested … [...]

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Blog disclaimers …

Posted on February 4, 2008. Filed under: blogging, organisational culture | Tags: , , |

‘The views expressed on this blog are my own and don’t represent the views of my employer.’
This is a common refrain you see on blogs all over the blogosphere and is, in my view, a complete cop-out!
A company is just a group of people with shared objectives. Those people have views – how can you [...]

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Blogging explained …

Posted on November 30, 2007. Filed under: blogging, social media | Tags: , , |

Another brilliantly simple video from Commoncraft:

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Blog landscape …

Posted on October 24, 2007. Filed under: social media | Tags: , |

When I was trying to figure out how the blogs at BT would hang together, I drew the below image. Naturally, it’s nothing like what we’ve ended up with … ho hum!

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