Archive for October, 2006
October 6, 2006
Existentialnet
The time is right for us to stop focusing inwards on the management of the “intranet as website”, and to ask: what are we going to deliver to the organisation in the next six months?
Good question. A better question: What does the organization need to deliver in the next six months and how can the intranet be aligned to support those efforts?
Intranets will always be viewed as a commodity (low value) when all they focus on is the processing of mundane tasks. There is huge opportunity for your intranet to help make a breakthrough in achieving your organizational goals. It will only happen when intranet managers, consultants and advisors focus on achieving the goals of the organization first and foremost.
I guarantee that you will get more resources and attention if your intranet makes tangible contributions to achieving your organization’s business goals. Policies and time sheet applications will not impress senior executives.
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October 4, 2006
Quoted in the New York Times: Blogging the Hand That Feeds You
Last week was media week for High Context Consulting! I was quoted last Wednesday in an article on blogging about work in the Times Circuits section: Blogging the Hand That Feeds You by Matt Villano.
Here is my bit from the end of the piece.
If it were up to corporate lawyers, the business world’s fascination with blogs would be short-lived. Daniel M. Klein, a partner at the Atlanta law firm Buckley & Klein, said that the “safest way to blog about work is not to do it,� adding that it’s “just a matter of time� before some of the biggest companies that endorse blogging lay off employees for going too far.
Others are less skeptical. C. David Gammel, the president of High Context Consulting, a Web strategy consulting firm in Silver Spring, Md., said that employee blogs were worth encouraging, as long as companies devised individual policies about blogging and incorporated them into the employee handbook.
“Human resources departments should simply add blogging to the list of activities in which employees should be careful about how they represent the company,� he said.
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