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Entries Tagged as 'Corporate blogging'

Web 2.0 is knocking on French companies’ doors

February 20th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, Corporate blogging, HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, about france, enterprise 2.0, social computing

A few words about a recentTNS Sofres survey about the use of web 2.0 in France and user’s expectations.
Just one thing to take into consideration : the following numbers are about web 2.0 users in France that’s to say, according to the survey, 58% of the population. I think it’s even more : people who [...]

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Do managers have to spend all their time managing interactions ?

January 4th, 2007 · View Comments · Corporate blogging, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management

Indeed another way to ask this question would be : “must people be given tools to organize themselves their interactions or is it the manager’s job to control everything”.
In fact you can see both situations in organizations. In some you’ll have few control, tools like wikis or blogs that allow people to communicate and organize [...]

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A corporate blog to communicate with investors

November 23rd, 2006 · View Comments · Communication, Corporate blogging

A post that goes against common ideas. I’ve often heard a manager or a CEO should not blog, as possible interpretations of his words could get him into troubles according to financial communication rules.
A recent discussion between Jonathan Schwartz (Sun’s CEO) and Christopher Cox (SEC’s chairman) showed that the latter thought online communication is a [...]

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What emails can’t do, and how much they cost

November 5th, 2006 · View Comments · Corporate blogging, Intranets & collaborative tools

How many emails a day do you receive? And how long does it takes to read it all? 2 hours? How many of them are useful ? 50% ? Considering every people in your company have to face the same situation try to calculate according to the hourly salary how much does it cost in [...]

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A few words to companies wich are afraid of corporate blogging and tranparency

August 18th, 2006 · View Comments · Communication, Corporate blogging

“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”

Oscar Wilde

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Fired because of her blog: a french “premiere”

July 27th, 2006 · View Comments · About blogosphere, Communication, Corporate blogging

Just when the big question was “is it good for companies to blog?”, “are employees’ blogs a good or a bad thing?” the french blogosphere woke up with a big headhache when we learned that the nice “petite anglaise” got fired beacause of things she wrote on her blog aboute her employer.
“Petite Anglaise” is an [...]

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Blogs as a management tool: what’s important is content

July 19th, 2006 · View Comments · Corporate blogging, HR & Management 2.0, IT

If you’ve read my post about blogs as a management tool, your reaction may (and should) have been “this will generate so much content that it will quickly besome unable”. This clear-headed reaction is half right, half wrong, depending on how the platform is conceived.
Internal blogs have to aims: facilitating communication and managing content. The [...]

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