Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia created by volunteers, was recently the subject of a hoax, in which false information was intentionally included in one of its entries (I've included the AP Story in the extended entry below.) This reveals the downside...
Posted in CommLog on December 12, 2005 09:10 AM
According to The Guardian, our friend David Allen and his Getting Things Done philosophy have achieved cult status. In particular...Web and IT professionals have taken Allen's core ideas and refined them into ever more effective tips called "life hacks". Adherents...
Posted in CommLog on October 22, 2005 09:23 PM
Friend, colleague, and CRA client Steve Wilson of McDonald's is getting some well-deserved recognition for his efforts to bring blogging to the Golden Arches. (This ClickZNews piece is just the latest, and Steve's been hitting the conference trail pretty aggressively...
Posted in CommLog on October 18, 2005 10:22 PM
Earlier today I took a call to help a client think through how they could use message boards and blogs to manage and disseminate competitive intelligence among their employees (+/- 10,000 folks, globally distributed). In doing so, I sprung wikis...
Posted in CommLog on May 4, 2005 07:21 PM
My Partner Randall recently passed out Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson to the consultants in the firm. Farson is a former CEO, professor, and psychologist who studied with the famous Carl Rogers for many years. His thesis: Life...
Posted in CommLog on April 6, 2005 08:04 AM
Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing and publisher of Working Smart has recently posted his firm’s Corporate Blogging Guidelines. They provide simple rules of thumbs for Thomas Nelson employees who may choose to blog (a practice which the firm...
Posted in CommLog on March 30, 2005 05:16 PM
The folks at MarketingProfs have a piece up on balanced scorecards. Worth reading. For those who seek to dig a bit deeper, Wikipedia has a nice article on balanced scorecards, which includes a set of print references and resources on...
Posted in CommLog on March 29, 2005 11:17 PM
You're all members of one team or another. How much do you love it when one team member sends out an email asking for feedback and another team member decides that they should "reply to all" with their response? And...
Posted in CommLog on February 15, 2005 04:40 PM
InfoWorld columnist Chad Dickerson weighed in on wikis last week: After my conversation with Peter, I was psyched up to give TWiki a spin, so I logged into our intranet server planning to set TWiki up and check it out....
Posted in CommLog on November 19, 2004 01:18 PM
Buckman Labs Is Nothing but Net explains that "Buckman Labs makes chemicals, but it sells knowledge" -- with the help of the Buckman knowledge sharing system, K'Netix: It came to him eight years ago, when he was flat on his...
Posted in CommLog on September 16, 2004 10:22 AM
We have previously discussed the (fairly) new collaborative technology of wikis. Now the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) discusses wikis (versus e-mail and blogs): Some analysts have dubbed collaboration via e-mail 'occupational spam' -- endless, time-consuming and often pointless. Enter...
Posted in CommLog on July 29, 2004 01:00 PM
MarketingProfs has posted its 10 rules for using blogs and wikis. We’ve posted about blogs quite often, and gave readers a heads up on wikis recently, and this MarketingProfs piece is an addition worth reading. It leads with a premise...
Posted in CommLog on April 13, 2004 11:49 PM
We've talked about weblogs. But what's a wiki? In the current issue of Darwin, Stowe Boyd provides a brief introduction and explains why wikis may emerge as an important vehicle for organizational communication.Faster than a speeding blog, more collaborative than...
Posted in CommLog on February 25, 2004 05:28 PM