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| Monday, June 26, 2006 |
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Are the serious people out of the room? Good. 
writing your own Wikipedia bio is a bad idea
Better Good News
Interesting
| | They overlapped at the end of the same week in San Francisco. |
| | Hmm... Is there a way to link to unchanging versions of those charts? |
It's still only the 21st Century
| | In sum, most businesses don't trust their employees enough to allow them to blog. |
| | Which means (and I'd love to hear Steve's thoughts on this) that even if a traditional business has a blog, it will likely be written by a trusted insider and carefully designed to promote the company line. It would end up being nothing more than an alternate form of a company brochure and press release page. It would look like a blog, but it wouldn't really be one. |
| | Is that better than no blog at all? I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe blogging as a corporate self-promotion tool is perfectly OK. |
| | Maybe I'm still missing something. |
| | I still believe there is an inverse relationship between the premium companies place on branding and their willingness to tolerate (much less depend on) blogging employees. |
| | I also think that, in the long run, most businesses will be understood to work fundamentally at the grace of their customers and employees, and that conventions for getting those two parties to communicate directly will replace the cosmetic callings of advertising and PR. (One good reason: it's cheaper.) Blogging may be one of those conventions. Maybe others will emerge. Whatever they are, many years will pass before the old flywheels stop spinning. |
| | Let's remember that similar points about employees and customers were being made by Peter Drucker fifty years ago. |
| | And that Alvin Toffler wrote The Third Wave, which notified the world about the end of the Industrial Age, and the dawn of the Information Age, more than 25 years ago. |
| | I'm just glad I work in a field where the future started arriving early enough to treat me with a taste of it. |
| | It also saddens me to know that I'll be long dead before the rest of us taste the same thing. |
| | That's also one reason I'm motivated to help urge progress along in the meantime. |
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