Posted on October 8, 2004 9:14 am by Shel Holtz | Internal
Among all of the stories of employees fired for blogging, you may have missed this one. Sixty-three-year-old programmer Charles Smith was terminated from his job at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services because of his screen saver.
Smith was running the the screen saver from the UC Berkeley-run Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The “distributed computing” software sends chunks of data to…
Posted on October 1, 2004 4:45 am by Shel Holtz | Internal
Neville Hobson’s blog, Nevon reports on findings of a study conducted by Edelman Public Relations, New Frontiers in Employee Communications: Current Practices and Future Trends. The report indicates that internal communications efforts haven’t caught up to new technologies ranging from blogs and wikis to instant messaging.
A PDF of the study is available for download. (Corrected URL…thanks, Jonathan.)
Posted on October 1, 2004 4:38 am by Shel Holtz | Internal
If you’ve ever applied for relief from FEMA, you know how long it takes to get a check. I know—I got a relief check after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, when just about everything I owned that could break broke. The check took weeks to arrive.
Not so in the Southeast. Victims of hurricanes got checks in a matter of two or three days,…
Posted on October 1, 2004 4:09 am by Shel Holtz | Internal
Webcasts via the intranet combined with live translators is one method for addressing a multi-lingual, global audience, according to Heidi Collins, keynoter at the first day of The Conference Board’s Corporate Communication and Technology Conference. Collins, who runs Air Products’ knowledge management efforts, said that’s how her company delivers information to employees who don’t speak English without assuming the cost of translating written…
Posted on September 28, 2004 8:57 am by Shel Holtz | Internal
For the first time, I’ve included a proposal for a wiki in a report for a client. This is hardly a high-tech company—in fact, it’s about as brick-and-mortar as they come—but the inclusion of a wiki in my recommendations was a no-brainer. The company is expanding rapidly overseas and managing communication in a 24-hour cycle is getting more and more difficult. Several executives I…
Posted on September 27, 2004 7:55 am by Shel Holtz | Internal
The doors are open at a wiki I’ve set up called The Employee Communications Manifesto. The term “manifesto” is, I think, apt, since this wiki will serve as a group’s declaration of ideas and exposition of the theories and directions of a movement. The group is the community of employee communications professionals. The ideas, theories and directions are those those of the employee…
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