I noticed an interesting article on Australian IT about Telstra and their new propaganda activities, nowwheretalking. offers a raft of Telstra information, including statistics, speeches by executives, blogs from Telstra staff and feature articles supporting the company’s position on regulation of the telecommunications industry. (Emphasis mine) They have gone and created 11 employee written blogs.Continue reading “Corporate blogging in Australia”
Category Archives: Communication
Honeywell is blogging
It seems that the Honeywell Career’s page now has employee blogs, currently they have 3 peadership development program participants blogging on the site. A great step forward, just one thing no RSS feed or at least not one I could find. (Thanks to Work-related Blogs and News and Viral Voices.) Update:- I found the feeds,Continue reading “Honeywell is blogging”
Recruiting in Australia (Part 1)
Over the last few weeks I have become very concerned about the state of the recruitment industry in Australia, in particular around IT although the comments will also hold true of other industries. I am preparing a few posts to work through the issues, mostly for my purposes but others might also benefit. (Had toContinue reading “Recruiting in Australia (Part 1)”
Success of your blog
Regina from BNet Blogs asks an interesting question. How do you measure the success of a blog strategy? There are many items out there that can help you develop your measures. At the end of the day you need to have a clear measure for success, like when Jeremy Wright auctioned his blogging service onContinue reading “Success of your blog”
Messaging and workflow
Dub’s has continued his thoughts on workflow and extended on my post around messaging (aren’t blogs great!) and simplified my thoughts into an easy to read summary. However I don’t agree with his comments on HR-XML being the “new” model and savior to our messaging needs. (Again a great thing about blogs is we canContinue reading “Messaging and workflow”
More on employee communications
I’m sure this has been mentioned last week by someone, I just can’t remember, so here goes again. Further to my last post what happens when Mary from accounts posts her video on Google, while their terms and service prohibit pornography/obscene material there is still a large amount of content that really Mary probably doesContinue reading “More on employee communications”
Employers & Blogs
Ahh, Tuesday night brings the weekly newsletter from Workforce Management. This week a couple of interesting things to report, you might need to subscribe to view them. Firstly a survey for HR professionals looking at who within HR is involved in blogs, 70% (when I took the survey) said they did NOT participate nor readContinue reading “Employers & Blogs”
A History of Communications
A fastinating read on the history of communications from 35,000 BC to 1998 AD, while only up to 1998 it shows how things are dramatically speeding up. I am looking forward to the next 7 years.
Ideas for corporate RSS feeds
Elizabeth Albrycht from CorporatePR has 10 interesting ideas for the use of RSS within corporations, while mainly externally focused they do offer food for thought on internal applications. 1) Email is an increasingly problematic communications tool due to the growth of spam and the overwhelming amount of email most businesspeople receive.2) RSS is perfect forContinue reading “Ideas for corporate RSS feeds”
Electronic Forms & a paperless office
Angus Logan pointed me to a new blog Electronic Forms from the developers of InfoView, a product that works with the Microsoft product InfoPath, I sort of referred to InfoPath on the weekend in my post on HR-XML and resumes. The InfoView product adds a new dimension to the picture and could provide the frameworkContinue reading “Electronic Forms & a paperless office”
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