Posted on August 27, 2007 10:23 am by Shel Holtz | Business | PR | Transparency | Wikis
Since Virgil Griffith launched Wikipedia Scanner, it’s been open season on organizations whose IP addresses are linked to changes made to entries on the popular DIY encyclopedia. For example…
- PRWeek’s UK edition notes that “PR agencies are flouting Wikipedia rules demanding they do not edit the site. At least six of the PRWeek top ten UK agencies have edited the site in the past year…FD is…
Posted on August 21, 2007 1:41 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Social Networking
Tony Molloy, from the Bolton Citizens Advice Bureau in the UK, forwarded the latest issue of ILM Newsroom, the online publication from the UK’s Institute of Leadership & Management. The juxtaposition of three articles grabbed my attention.
The first one—the article that prompted Tony to send the site my way—reports that “More than two thirds of employers have banned or restricted the use of Facebook and other…
Posted on August 7, 2007 5:33 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
The “new” Chrysler officially launched yesterday as most of the transition of ownership from Daimler to the private Cerberus has been wrapped up. A day earlier, though, the company unveiled a blog prominently accessible from the company’s business home page.
Called “Voices of Chrysler,” the blog has featured several senior-level posts, including a welcome from Vice Chairman and President Tom Lasorda who wrote:
We will continue our…
Posted on July 29, 2007 10:23 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal | New Media | Social Media | Technology
Neville Hobson writes that more than two-thirds of UK companies are blocking employee access to Facebook and similar sites based on the fear that employees will waste time rather than get their work done. (This according to according to a study reported in the Daily Telegraph.
I wish I could say I was surprised by this, but I was expecting it.…
Posted on July 26, 2007 7:17 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Second Life
IBM’s guidelines for employee bloggers are fairly well known among people who pay attention to such things. Now, IBM has become (as far as I know) the first company to establish a policy for employees who venture into Second Life and other virtual words.
According to an AP article, some critics are blasting the move, suggesting that avatars can’t be controlled by policies.…
Posted on July 12, 2007 2:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, has been something of a social media hero among those of us who advocate the use of blogs and other tools to achieve business goals. Mackey has blogged regularly on the Whole Foods website and recently took his battle with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission—which wants to block Whole Foods’ merger with rival Wild Oats—to…
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