We work in large organisations that ban access to social media. We have long-winded IT policies that forbid our employees from tweeting, liking, stumbling or commenting. After all we are paying these people to work, not to surf the internet catching up with their friends. But is our logic sound? Should we isolate our employees […]
RIP Internal Phone Book
I used to work in R and D for Unilever, a very large FMCG manufacturer. Whenever we had a problem, couldn’t make something, didn’t know what to do next, my boss would say to me: “We should know what Unilever knows. Who do you know?” At which point I used groan and pick up the […]
My Favourite Pub
I went to a fascinating talk the other day about social media. The presenter claimed that you could find a review about pretty much anything on-line. I thought I would give it a go, I Googled the name of my favourite pub and the 3rd item was a review site called beerintheevening.com. Not only does […]