Category Archives: Rants

Knowledge Management – why should I share my expertise and know-how with office idiots?

A nasty highlight of the “I’m powerful, you’re an idiot” problem when it comes to Knowledge Management.

Nothing’s final in life

Document control. Don’t send, share or publish files / documents with the word ‘final’ in the file-name or on the document. It is rarely true, and it is always confusing.
Here’s a handy reminder for you to download, email around or print.

Nothing’s final – PNG image (printable quality) 76KB
Nothing’s final – PNG image (web / email [...]

Writing fashions to be wary of

Internal communications that are dull and lifeless often masquerade as interesting by using ‘exciting’ boilerplate. Here are a few criminal uses of English.

The difference between a website and a real organisation

Wed has a rant about people who pretend to represent ‘organisations’ that don’t really exist.

Does your intranet launch when you log on to your work computer? (Poll)

Wedge hates the idea of the intranet launching as soon as you log on to Windows, but he has to consdider the benefits, even if he can’t contain or hide his infuriation!

Don’t read about internal communications

Wedge wants to join a professional body of communicators, he really does – but he doesn’t want to solely drink from the kool-aid. Read more! Immerse yourself in media and marketing – get outside Internal Communications or risk becoming stale.

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