Google Wave and MS OneNote: Re-program my brain

LONDON — There seems to be quite a bit of excitement out there about Google Wave. Here’s a blog I was sent to earlier today. Look how many comments there are in a few hours.

There’s a lovely short video here too that will show you what Google Wave is all about.

To me [...]

People still talking about CommsFlashMob

LONDON — I am delighted to see that people are still talking about last month’s CommsFlashMob.

Liam and his buddy Paul have both written about it recently.

It seems like maybe the CommsFlashMob should keep on rolling.

Ideas?

/df

@CommsFlashMob: How we did on Wikipedia…

LONDON — A few of us got together in one place today and made an effort to quickly update the “Internal Communications” page on Wikipedia.

We learned a lot in the process.

All tolled there were 28 amendments made to the page, and more are still being made now. Some people watched. Some emailed, texted and tweeted [...]

CommsFlashMob? What is that?

LONDON — It started as an idle comment on Twitter. Either Rach or Lee started it. Well, actually Wedge started it… Maybe I should start again.

Anyone interested in social media and communications will know that Wikipedia, while fantastic on the marriage of [...]

Social media course tomorrow: Warm up the wireless

I am excited about an event that I am running with Neville Hobson tomorrow. He’s already blogged on it. And, being Neville he’s put it on Twitter and created a hash-tag and all.

So, if you are social media savvy you can follow along. We were plotting today a [...]

Is your company comms ready for fame?

LONDON — There’s a website associated with Antony Gormley’s latest artwork. The ‘work’ is called ‘One and Other’ and it’s strangely addictive. It is a programme for 2,400 different people to stand one hour on the fourth plinth over the space of almost 3.5 months. Have a look at the site. [...]

Internal Comms: What is news?

PARSONS GREEN — It’s a question that journalism students ask. And indeed I had to answer when I was a news desk copy editor at a tabloid owned by Robert Maxwell in the 1980s.

I’m not sure I always like the answer.

H1N1 (that ‘killer’ flu thing)

Surely Avian Flu was bad. But [...]

Live from Wimbledon final on Twitter

SOUTHWEST LONDON — We have been entering the lottery for Wimbledon for 10 years. And we got our first tickets this year. I just opened to see we are about 7 rows back, near the net. So it should be even better than I had hoped.

I’ll take my phone along and update Twitter on [...]

MySpace speaks up for… the analysts?

“MySpace today announced its intent to restructure its international operations and refocus personnel around a smaller number of territories, while retaining a robust global consumer presence.”

That’s what News Corporation’s MySpace said in their press release yesterday. According to the Flesch-Kincaid reading ease measures that sentence requires about 15 years of [...]

How to follow news live from Tehran

LONDON — It’s certainly a phenomena. Someone smarter than me (my old colleague Steven Noble) has passed on this link (click here) to all Twitter messages coming from within 15 miles of Tehran. It’s very interesting reading. All in English.

I have no doubt that parties on both sides [...]