Banning social sites at work is for wimps – real managers have conversations with their time wasters about wasting time.

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1. At least thirty years of ingrained business culture that focusses on process rather than people and doesn’t have the language or concepts to handle relationships.
2. Senior people who will never get “it” but have the power to stop “it” happening.
3. People’s fear of disapproval if they say what they think.
4. Vendors who talk nonsense about unrealistic timescales and benefits and want to lock them into over-engineered solutions that keep IT departments happy but don’t change the world.
5. IT
6. IT

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It is interesting how often in my work with clients our conversations turn to the words we use. Words to describe the business benefits of what we are doing. Words to make using the tools attractive to colleagues. Words to clarify what they expect from vendors and to help see the wood for the trees. We invariably agree that we don’t yet have the right words for any of it!

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I really do believe that the corporate myth is about to fall apart under its own weight. I try to excite as many people as possible about the opportunity this represents and to give them the tools to claw their way out of the crap before they get buried.

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One of the biggest threats to social media use inside businesses is lack of patience. There is a lot of pressure to “deliver”. This pressure will kill attempts to be social. Be patient. Be patient when people don’t join your system fast enough. Be patient when people don’t learn as quickly as you expect. Be patient when people get things wrong. Be patient with yourself when you make mistakes.

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I am going to see him speak tomorrow night so I’ll let you know how he comes across.

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The intensity of the relationships you establish when you first get into things are never really repeated. I get nostalgic for that first flush of enthusiasm for blogging – a bit like your first year at secondary school or at university. The friendships you make in those times tend to stick with you for life. Blogging is the same.

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A business where everyone blogs. Everyone thinks about what they are doing and writes about what they are doing. From the top to the bottom, the edges to the middle. Everyone awake and bouncing off each other intellectually as they get more and more effective at whatever they do.

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Q. When is a blog not a blog?
A. When it is a blog post

There is not much that brings out the pedant in me but when people refer to a blog post as a blog it drives me nuts! I get caught out all the time when someone says “Have you seen my new blog?” and I think they have set up a whole new blog when in fact all they have done is write a blog post! A blog is the whole blog with all its posts and a blog post is a post – OK!

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Very poignant to see several shrines to those who have jumped off Beachy Head as I enjoy one of those days that “makes you glad to be alive”

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