June 26, 2006
Social Media in the Organziation
A while back Shel Holtz posted a nice series on how organizations are using social media internally. I really like the idea put forth by Niall Cook in Part IV of the series on using del.icio.us to share market intelligence and news stories. As a firm of 75, we constantly struggle with how to share the enormous amount of information that is digested by employees at the individual level. If people will learn to use this tool, I could see it greatly improving the knowledge sharing within our firm.
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March 27, 2006
iTunes U Lessons for Employee Communications
Robert J. Ricci at SON-OF-A-PITCH points to a recent study in the USA Today about schools such as Duke, Brown, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Allegheny among others that are integrating podcasts in the classroom by making lectures and study materials available to students via iPods and other MP3 players. As one that went to college before laptops and the internet, articles like this make me wonder just how different the student experience must be in the wired world.
While reading this article, I couldn't help but think that companies could learn from how schools are communicating and educating students and apply some of these techniques to employee communications. As the schools build on the knowledge base by creating libraries of relevant content and study material, companies could create libraries of sales materials, new employee orientation content, client backgrounds, training podcasts, general HR news, CEO messaging etc, etc, etc. Companies could/should create their own iTunes U.
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