I’ve heard rumours on the grapevine that the leadership of my department are about to embark on asking how they can communicate with us worker bees a little better. It seems that they’re now conscious their waggle dance ain’t waggling much.
I’m seeing this chance as a good opportunity to spread the word of social software. It’s not often you get them all listening at the same time so it’s probably too good a chance to pass up. The way they’re going to go about it is like when you cautiously open the door and, whilst the security chain is still on, peer round and check who is their. What I want to do is kick the door in, walk smack in the middle of the room and slap down a whole detailed communication strategy with bells and whistles on. In fact, let’s set the bloody thing on fire too so they have to pay attention.
The topics I’m probably going to cover are:
- E.mail – You can’t ignore it and you shouldn’t ignore it. It’s often used and often abused. People just need to get better with it.
- Blogging – Something I think the enterprise is missing badly and something I think a lot of us are overlooking as a useful tool.
- Instant Messaging – For those conversational moments when you are listening to music and can’t be bothered to take your headphones out to use the phone.
- The Phone – When should you call someone? Some people like it some people hate being put on the spot. Not many things out on the web tell you about good phone etiquette, it’s just kind of assumed we know about it because it’s been around ages. Also, how do you run a good teleconference?
- Wikis – A very useful tool but a lot of people still see it as just a publishing tool.
- RSS – An essential piece of kit but what’s the best way to use an RSS reader?
- Static Old Skool Web Pages – Do they still have a place?
- Presentations – A presentation is not a document etc etc.
- Social Bookmarking – Very subtle but powerful way of leading by example.
- Face to face – What makes a good meeting?
- Status updates and presence detection – Not quite twitter but not far off.
- Podcasting – Nearly forgot about it but it’s fairly important.
I think that’s about all I’ve come up with. So here comes the cheeky bit.
Has anyone got any good references they’d like to share? Or have I missed some things that are out there and ready for wide-scale adoption by the enterprise?
I’ve got some references myself but I really want to immerse myself in this stuff right now. In return I promise to post all my thoughts on here and quote who gave me what.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Sid.
