Using Twitter for Internal Communications Marriott on the Move What Are The Steps To Creating A Team Of Internal Bloggers? « Digital Marketing Mercenary Does Your Blog Have The Right Bloggers? Corporate Blogging — Expert Series: Interview with Lou Hoffman. Part 2 Series Overview While many companies have corporate blogs, few do them well. My goal is to share conversations with those doing interesting things in the world blogging and resources that will help you build a business blog that translates words in to sales, and taking it from good enough to great. My interview with Lou Hoffman We dig a little deeper in how to grow a successful corporate blogging program. – Steve Farnsworth (@Steveology) What are the steps to creating a team of internal bloggers? Before jumping into the question, I like the way you used the word “bloggers” plural. Tag-team blogging can work effectively and it obviously lessens the time burden on a single individual. The first step starts with the company’s management team. This is basic politics 101; i.e., it’s easier to recruit talent for activities supported by management. Next comes to the recruitment phase.
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Social media for internal comms Deloitte Consulting won a Gold Quill at IABC this year for a cool internal comms initiative that uses social media. The aim was to retain and recruit more Generation Y employees by getting them engaged with the company and sharing what it's like to work for Deloitte via social media.They ran a Film Festival asking employees to make 3 min film answering the question "What's Your Deloitte?". Employees posted videos on a Youtube channel, and I imagine, on their intranet. The video below was the one that had the most view on YouTube. More details of the campaign can be found at IABC here. In summary:- 372 films were submitted, by 2000 film makers, which equates to 5% of Deloitte's staff.- the gallery where the films were show was viewed over 400,000 times.- the winners got a experiential trip e.g. I don't know how the campaign has impacted on their Gen Y retention and recruitment [if anyone from Deloitte reads this, then any results you could share would be fab].
Blog directory – News from Google – Google Whether it’s a product or feature launch or a cool new initiative, chances are that you’ll read about most news from Google on one of our blogs. We started blogging in May of 2004 and now have a network of company blogs that cover topics as diverse as our renewable energy policies, product updates, developer challenges and code snippets, and information for advertisers and partners. The official blog for information about the AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick and AdMob APIs and SDKs Das offizielle deutsche AdSense-Blog El blog oficial de AdSense en español Le Blog officiel AdSense en français Il blog ufficiale di AdSense in Italiano Het Officiële Nederlandse Google AdSense Blog Oficjalny polski blog o AdSense O blog oficial do AdSense em português Google AdSense 中文網誌 Google’a içeriden bir bakış.
How To Calm Employees Into Social Media I’ve read hundreds of articles on how to corral your employees in social media. Posts on how to make sure they don’t reveal too much, waste too much time, or annoy people to the point that customers hate you. However, all that assumes that your employees and your team are comfortable stepping into social media and that they WANT to be there. If you’re responsible for a team skeptical of social media, how do you calm their fears? Here’s a roadmap. Remove the Barriers If you want to create a habit of socialness and collaboration, you need to remove the barriers to that behavior. Focus on One Network To get employees comfortable in taking the leap and creating a culture of being social, allow them to focus on just one network to start. When you really learn a tool, you can learn to hack it to find your own success instead of copying everyone else.You limit your newbie mistakes to one channel instead of repeating them all over the social Web, ensuring that ALL of your customers spot them.
Wim Coekaerts Blog We recently released Oracle VM Server for x86 3.2.7. For more information you can go here. In addition we also recently released Oracle Linux 6.5. Find the press release here and the link to the release notes here. You will notice that for Oracle Linux we have updated the version of OpenSCAP to use the NIST SCAP 1.2 specification. We have also decided to distribute OpenSCAP with Oracle VM Server for x86 so you will be able to use the same utility for security compliance checks that you may use with Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris. We typically recommend that you do not directly execute additional utilities within the Oracle VM Server management domain (i.e. the Dom0 domain), but checking security compliance requires careful limited access by your authorized administrators to produce the reports. "Oracle VM Server runs a lightweight, optimized version of Oracle Linux. True False Error Unknown Not Applicable Not Evaluated If you also want to test this, here is the raw XML
Starting January 25, 2007 Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Podcast with Toby Redshaw of Motorola on their continued wiki use [link] Last March I posted a podcast with Toby Redshaw, corporate VP of Motorola, in which we discussed their use of wikis and blogs. It has proven to be one of my most popular, with thousands of downloads. A few days ago I recorded another podcast with him to see how things have progressed and I've finished processing it and posted it today. In this 45 minute phone call, Toby updates us on the use of Motorola's internal wikis and blogs. Examples of wiki use range from broad areas like digital six-sigma or some of the key engineering efforts which have hundreds of pages and many contributors to a pre-sales factbook for a certain type of network architecture component that they sell which serves a small, geographically dispersed group. They prune old and unused content, sometimes having a blog that lasts just a very short time. What does he wish he had known earlier? Friday, March 9, 2007 Chris Daly
Shay Shmeltzer's Weblog So you have a 10.1.3.* based ADF Faces application, and you are wondering if you should upgrade it to 11g and how. To make the right decision, you first need to define to yourself what are your goals for the application. Here are some options: If this is the case, you don't actually need to upgrade - you can just take the 10.1.3.5 application as is and deploy it to a WebLogic instance. A while back I wrote a paper and recorded a demo showing how to take an ADF 10.1.3 application and deploy it on WebLogic . And while the demo was using an older WebLogic - the steps still apply to WebLogic 11g. In this case I think you should consider a complete re-development of your application's UI layer. Why? So to truly take advantage of those, you should really invest the time to design and develop with these new capabilities in a new way. When you open your 10.1.3 application in JDeveloper 11g, JDeveloper will offer to do the migration for you.
Bringing the Twitter-like Experience to the Enterprise - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership CIO — Many companies have utilized the power of Twitter — the short messaging service that enables discussions about current events, products and industry topics — for the purposes of marketing and customer service. But examples of bringing this technology, known as microblogging, into the enterprise for the purposes of collaboration remain nascent. More Enterprise Web 2.0 Coverage on CIO.com But Lisa Bertero Palmer, senior vice president of Davies, a public affairs firm, is in the process of rolling out an internal, Twitter-like experience for approximately 50 employees in geographically dispersed locations throughtout the country. "We've been using it as a way to vastly increase efficiency while cutting down on e-mail," Palmer says. There are a few vendors that have tried to bring the Twitter-like experience into the enterprise, and Davies settled on Enterprise 2.0 vendor Socialtext — a company that takes Web 2.0 technologies and tailors them for business use.
The Social Media Marketing Blog Inside IBM: IBM Internal Podcast with PodTech | PodTech.net <p>Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at <a href=" Inside IBM: IBM Internal Podcast with PodTech 16:34 | Admin | Nov 29th, 2005 2:25am | Last month IBM interviewed me while at the IBM headquarters meeting with their corporate podcast team (which I did an infoTalk interview for PodTech). This is exciting. Who said IBM can’t be nimble and lead again.