I don’t always get it right, and it’s not always “someone else’s fault”. Miscommunication is a serious matter, and yet mistakes will happen.
Rants
Fear of the big projects
Communications, Design, Intranet, Rants
I need to throw-out my current intranet, and yet the risks of the new intranet project failing (in part) are so great I feel overwhelmed. Launch in t-minus three months.
You don’t own your work – your company does
Rants
Most likely, you don’t own the work you do; you don’t own the content you produce. Think about he copyright.
User experience as a core function of design (getting it wrong)
Design, Rants
Nathanael strongly suggests designing for people, rather than designing ‘for your brand’. Apple, Google, Microsoft, prick up your ears.
Showing off
Minutiae, Rants
It’s not all glamour and glitz as a communicator; we have meeting invites to ignore and spelling mistakes to fixate on as well. Oh the myths!
We don’t need more corporate communication channels, we need local level conduits
Communications, Rants
What local level communication channels are available to Mildred, the booking system admin?
What annoys my intranet surfers
Intranet, Rants
The list of things that annoy my intranet readers about web pages. Awesomely consistent.
I know why my cage bears strings
Rants
It’s not that I’m trapped in my role, my job, it’s that I know what it would take to progress, and I don’t like the strings attached.
Twitter basics for business, by James Barisic
Rants, Raves
James’ sucinct slides remind us that Twitter is not a marketplace.
Jedi mind trick web design
Design, Intranet, Rants
“This is the intranet design you’ve been looking for…”
Knowledge Management – why should I share my expertise and know-how with office idiots?
Rants
A nasty highlight of the “I’m powerful, you’re an idiot” problem when it comes to Knowledge Management.
Nothing’s final in life
Communications, Minutiae, Rants
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 quality) 12KB
Right-click and save the above linked inages.
Wedge
Writing fashions to be wary of
Communications, Rants
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
Charitable Musings, Rants
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)
Intranet, Rants
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
Communications, Rants
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.