If only it was that simple …

Posted on November 13, 2009. Filed under: Web 2.0, blogging, communications, internal communications, intranet, social media | Tags: , , , , |

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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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My slides from International Employee Communications Summit

Posted on June 10, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, communications, intranet, social media | Tags: , , |

I managed to struggle through man-flu to do my key note presentation at the International Employee Communications Summit on 6 June. Here are the slides … enjoy … questions/discussion very welcome!
(If for any reason you can’t see the slides, they are also available here).

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Who owns collaboration?

Posted on May 30, 2008. Filed under: collaboration, intranet, social media | Tags: , , |

Everyone’s talking about collaboration within the enterprise and excited about using social media tools on intranets … but who owns the business requirements for collaboration within the enterprise?
One of the serious dangers of introducing social media tools onto your intranet is that, because they are ‘free’ and simple to deploy, techies start deploying them left, [...]

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Twitter in the enterprise …

Posted on April 18, 2008. Filed under: Twitter, intranet, social media | Tags: , , |

A week into using Twitter and my experience so far has been overwhelmingly positive. It takes some getting used to and was very disruptive at first. Relying on just the web interface makes it significantly less integrated into my way of working and requires you to keep going back to the web site and refreshing [...]

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Makes you feel human again …

Posted on March 6, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, intranet, social media | Tags: , , , |

One of the key benefits of social media tools in a corporate context for me is letting employees be ‘human’ at work. Until now, as employees we have had to lead double lives.
We get up in the morning as humans – we express our opinions and listen to the opinions of our families … we [...]

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Facing up to competition …

Posted on February 20, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, communications, intranet, organisational culture, social media | Tags: , , |

In 1984 BT lost its monopoly status with the de-regulation of the UK telecoms market. It has survived by defending its core, traditional business through quality of service, and flourished through diversification and transformation into a global communications services company – utilising its hard earned skills and sweating its key asset – namely its core [...]

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The power of peer pressure …

Posted on February 13, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, intranet, social media, wisdom of crowds | Tags: , , , , , |

An interesting article in today’s Financial Times about the politics of sellers and buyers rating transactions on eBay.
To summarise, eBay is shifting the balance of power to consumers on its auction site by removing the ability of sellers to leave feedback about buyers. Its reasoning is that if a buyer leaves negative feedback for a [...]

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The future of leadership communications …?

Posted on January 30, 2008. Filed under: communications, leadership, social media | Tags: , , , |

I’ve written an article for the next edition of Melcrum’s Strategic Communication Management magazine (not sure if that is the Feb or Mar 08 edition?) about the changing nature of leadership communications … a sneak preview is available on this blog.
Enjoy … comments very welcome!

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BT Intranet strategy

Posted on January 13, 2008. Filed under: intranet | Tags: , , , |

In a comment on the ‘What is an intranet?‘ post, Steve Kent asked if I would talk a bit about the BT Intranet strategy … so here goes.
We’ve made a big effort in the last year to ensure our intranet strategy is very closely aligned with BT’s overall business strategy. We looked at the work [...]

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