Great ideas for using social media internally

I got a note from someone who read my last post wanting more details about what we talked about in that impromptu session last week in Vegas. First, I have to say it’s really funny to me that I hear more from people about my blog posts in e-mail and on Twitter...

Give ’em what they want

Last week I attended the opening keynote at the Ragan Social Media Conference in Las Vegas (#socmedlv on Twitter) and a friend turned to me and said “I wonder what they’re doing about Al not being here.” Turns out, the conference team didn’t...

Can the tiny gain attention from the huge?

Microsoft. For some that right there says all I need to say. As a long-time Mac user, I had often joined in the Microsoft bashing. But in the past two years I have become a fan of their MOSS 2007 (SharePoint) tool.  It’s got some great stuff in it. We’ve...

Gotta go through it

The other night the whole family was out to Ted’s Montana Grill for dinner. We were talking about one of my daughter’s favorite books, Going on a Bear Hunt. I realized that the theme in the book has great application to business: Can’t go over it,...

Blog editors deliver value

My client team has confirmed for me my long-believed theory that having an editor on a blogging project makes good business sense. I’ve been serving as an editor for this team of executive bloggers for several months. One of them told me yesterday that at the...

Corporate experience makes the grade

Last week, my husband and I watched the newest episode of CSI. The original leader has left the show, replaced by Laurence Fishburne (who I love) as a sort of mousey professor. Now, you would think that a professor would have real-world experience to lean on, right?...