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September 07, 2010
Anonymity, trust and openness on the social intranet

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Posted: September 7th, 2010, 8:56pm EDT by Sharon O'Dea

Over on Davepress, Dave Briggs has published a characteristically thoughtful post about anonymity online. In a nutshell, Dave argues people should be open about who they are as this builds trust in online spaces. It’s fair to say this has long been recieved wisdom for those managing internal forums and social intranets. By requiring users [...]
August 18, 2010
Silly season

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Posted: August 18th, 2010, 1:08pm EDT by Sharon O'Dea

We’re all familiar with the concept of silly season in the media. With the World Cup well and truly over, politicians on recess, schools on holiday and the courts shut for a few weeks, the papers are left scratching around for something to fill what the Germans call sommerloch – the summer [news] hole. And [...]
New look!

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Posted: August 18th, 2010, 11:50am EDT by Sharon O'Dea

I have a new look, thanks to a new theme (Vigilance), some CSS tinkering (a first for me), and most importantly a new header, designed by my excellent brother Martin O’Dea. Now to deal with the lack of any recent posts… Watch this space!
July 05, 2010
Peering behind the firewall

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Posted: July 5th, 2010, 7:27pm EDT by Sharon O'Dea

Ok, so I’ve been a bit rubbish at keeping up with the blog lately. I’ve been kinda busy, you know, with that whole election thing. And launching a new intranet. So nothing important or anything… Now things have calmed down a little I’m looking at where we go next. Now we have a proper platform [...]
April 21, 2010
Some old thinking about new media

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Posted: April 21st, 2010, 1:19pm EDT by Sharon O'Dea

What a difference a week makes. Thursday’s televised debates could be said to put paid to suggestions this is Britain’s first social media election. A whopping 9.4m Britons watched the debate, demonstrating old media certainly still has its place in our political landscape. Pundits took just minutes to announce who they believed to be the winners [...]
February 09, 2010
Organisational communication 2020

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Posted: February 9th, 2010, 1:32pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

This was the 50th meeting of the London Communicators and Engagement Group, an informal monthly meetup of (mostly internal) communicators. After 50 meetings you’d think organiser Matt O’Neill would be out of topics to cover – but you’d be wrong. This time, Matt invited David Galipeau (from eighty20.org /United Nations/Academia) to deliver a mini exposition [...]
February 04, 2010
UKGC10 session four: The future of journalism

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Posted: February 4th, 2010, 5:40pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

Eve Shuttleworth proposed this session in response to a question that arose earlier in the day: Where is journalism heading, and how do press offices need to change in response? The web professionals session I went to earlier touched on the same issue – how do we develop the skills we need within our web [...]
January 27, 2010
UKGC10 session three: Google Wave

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Posted: January 27th, 2010, 3:27pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

Shane Dillon led the post-lunch session on Google Wave. I’ve blogged about Wave a couple of times before, one a general overview and another looking specifically at what application it might have in internal communications. That being the case, I’m not going to repeat my comments here, but instead on my notes from the session [...]
January 26, 2010
UKGC10 Session two: Socialising Internal Communications

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Posted: January 26th, 2010, 1:23pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

The second session of the day was the one I was looking forward to the most, having discussed it ahead of the event with Kim Willis and Mark Watson. Kim took the lead on facilitating, but as it turns out the discussion managed to veer though the full swathe of internal comms issues without the [...]
January 24, 2010
UKGC10 session one: Web Professionals

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Posted: January 24th, 2010, 11:25am EST by Sharon O'Dea

The first session I went to at UKGov Barcamp 2010 was led by Vicky Sargent from SOCITM, who is looking at how we can develop a framework for professionalising web careers. Vicky began by explaing that historically SOCITM have been the industry body for senior IT managers in local government. But they’ve begun looking at how we can better support [...]