Posted on May 24, 2005 7:07 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
I’m in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas, listening to a streaming audio file offered by National Public Radio from its “Talk of the Nation” broadcast. The topic: employee blogging. Right now, I’m listening to former Google employee Mark Jen, who was fired for blogging (and is currently working at Plaxo on, among other things, development of an employee blogging policy. So far, I…
Posted on May 17, 2005 8:06 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
A letter to Business Week in response to the magazine’s cover story on blogging asks, “Is this really what we want our corporate leaders spending hours a day doing?”
Yes. Definitely.
In thinking this through, it’s important to put a corporate leader’s blogging efforts in context. Step back from the new technology and all the attention the software gets and consider what blogging is:
Communication.
Ask…
Posted on May 13, 2005 9:16 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal | Technology
The full-page ad on page86 of the June 2005 issue of PC World features a large headline screaming from a red background: “Record Everything Your Employees Do On The Internet.” The bottom features the heads of three employees. On their foreheads are these words:
“I pass company secrets via the web.” “I surf porn websites from behind my cubicle walls.” “I shop online after closing my office door.”
Posted on May 13, 2005 7:21 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
With the usual press release-driven fanfare, reserach company eMarketer has released a new study, “The Business of Blogging.” Asking price: US $695.
According to eMarketer’s hype, the study covers…
- What are the three main reasons blogs have not caught on with businesses?
- How many US businesses are currently blogging?
- How many plan to blog in the future?
- Should marketers tap into the blog market?
- How large is the blog…
Posted on April 27, 2005 5:22 am by Shel Holtz | Business
Apple Computers may not be able to make much of a dent in Microsoft’s domination of the computer marketplace. The company seems to be making a bid, though, to compete head-to-head with Microsoft when it comes to arrogance. In fact, as Microsoft humanizes itself with employee blogs and an effort to reach out to constituencies (through tools such as Channel 9 for…
Posted on April 22, 2005 10:28 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal
Here we go again. Will nobody stop these idiots?
An article in the Maryland Business Gazette succumbs without challenge to the same stastical nonsense that is cited by hundreds of other publications and which has led thousands of businesses to embark on engagement-killing programs of monitoring employees’ online activities. Are these business writers hypnotized by numbers? Do they never question what they’re told?…
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