Online Communications

Some thoughts back from London

I've not been blogging a lot those last days due to my new new responsibilities here at Edelman, and I have to say "slamed" is a word which is going to stick to me for a while...

Anyway, I spent this all day in London attending the event organised by the london office around blogging or "why you can't ignore blogging" at this great place, One Aldwych. It was a nice opportunity for me to meet Stuart Smith, CEO of Edelman London, Pamela Fieldhouse and Julie Halley but also Charlie Cannell from EIS and Jackie Cooper from JCPR.

Kevin Anderson from the BBC was one of the panelist and we have had some amazing discussion about his podcasting activities and how he collects some of his interviews from countries like China per MP3 files sent piece by piece to a Gmail account... He also explained how chinese bloggers are using their Flickr account to avoid censorship by sending pictures of themselves handling big shields on which they write their messages... Unbelievable, but... only the truth.

And again, the french riots... Two articles in this morning issue of USA Today, this is really in everyone's head around the world, so let me confirm, you can come in France now without risking your life, we are a safe country and tourists won't be hurt ! Unfortunately it's not our first time, we are used to these suburbs problems, even if we'd love to see an issue for it, although I don't see any at the same time, this is such an old problem, all governments have tried to solve it and all have failed...

Anyway, now that I am on the way back, I really appreciate to be part of such an international team with so many complementary skills and at the same time, such a strong voluntee to work all together and to make it happen ! That's just great and so exciting to connect with you guys.

(I've moblogged some photos of the event on my moblog Winks)

Technorati Tags: edelman, JCPR, london

CEOs find blogs usefull

Quick post following an article from CNET News:

A growing number of American chief executives rate blogs high as employee communication tools, though a majority of them remain skeptical about starting their own, a new study shows.

This is also about employee blogging:

Many companies encourage employees to share new ideas in their blogs and get feedback from customers or users of their services.

Read full article. Via Nevon

Leaving for Bruxelles' conf on Blogging

I have to run out to catch my train to Bruxelles, I am participating with Jacques, Loïc and Philippe to the first conference in Belgium on blogging, François invited us as panelists to speak on corporate blogging.
Very excited to meet belgium bloggers there !

Edelman & Intelliseek to publish a second survey on blogging

Edelman published with Intelliseek the second survey on their serie about blogging, "Talking from the inside out: The rise of Employee Bloggers".

You can download it at Edelman or Intelliseek as pdf file, 22 pages. I didn't have had enough time to read it carefully at that time, just had an overview, but will do in the very next hours as it seems to be of the same good quality as the previous one. A joint webinar is also announced on Intelliseek's web for the 21st. September on the topic "employee bloggers".

The press releases announcing the survey is available there.

Technorati Tags: blogging survey, internal blogging, Edelman, Intelliseek

Adobe is joining the blogosphere

Adobe launched on the 15th of august it's community of bloggers at Adobe's blog, the first 8 bloggers are on the road, I won't miss to keep an eye there !

Suggestion : (I fully agree with Niall on this), provide your readers a link to get back to the portal of the community after visiting one of your individual blogs, it's just impossible to get out of any of them from now, I have had to write down again the URL to find the home page of the portal... Just my 2 cents...

Welcome in the blogosphere ! ;o)

Technorati Tags: corporate blogging, adobe

Hill & Knowlton launched it's blogging community

I just learned (thanks Stanislas) the launch of Collective Conversation, H&K's professional blogging community, and I have to say I am glad to see their arrival in the blogosphere !

It seems like there are now two bloggers there, the portal has been launched recently, middle of june but the official announcement to the employee around the world has been made today.

The first two bloggers are:
Niall Cook, blogging at "Marketing Technology" on marketing technologies and blogging communities (hey, you'll have a new reader Niall !),
Chris Colby, blogging at "Netcoms" on Insight and expertise in networked communications (damned, second new blog to subscribe to...).

I'll be curious to see how fast this community is growing... The adventure begins with a quizz to see if employees are ready to blog, I did the test, although the first question was really not easy to answer, I've been hired as "BlogStar" ! ;o) Sorry guys, the star won't be able to blog at your side, I am not filling the first condition: "be an employee of a wholly-owned Hill & Knowlton office"... ;o)

The blogging policy is available, you can also find there the additional recomandations to the young bloggers.

So come on guys, let us see what you have to say ! Welcome again !

PS: will we see Paul Taaffee following Richard Edelman's path ? ;o) I hope so !

Technorati Tags: employee blogging, hillandknowlton

The "truth" on Kryptonite's affair...

Everyone in the blogosphere remembers the Kryptonite (the bike lock company) case in september 2004 and knows how the lack of information and reaction from the company has been a disaster...

Scoble and Israel have published on Naked Conversations excerpts from their email conversations those last days with Donna M. Tocci, Kryptonite’s PR manager who is bringing interesting feedback from their side of the mirror.

In the first two-three weeks we worked 18-20 hour days, every day, to formulate a plan regarding the locks and reply to the folks that were coming to us - consumers, dealers, distributors and media.  Again, not being able to rewrite history, we just didn't have the man or woman power to go and answer every forum question or blogger comment - and there were quite a few, as you know.  As the weeks went on and I did comment on some inaccuracies, we were blasted for 'not getting it'.  Apparently, you aren't supposed to correct bloggers.Being new to the space, admittedly, we backed off a little bit at that time because, we really didn't need to rile up anyone else.

Read the full story at Naked Conversations

Technorati Tags: corporate blogging, Kryptonite