Vox Hunt: Music - I Last Listened To...
Show us the last album you listened to.
According to iTunes, it was this:
links for 2007-09-12
- Some thoughts on what advertising needs to do to survive.
Work in Progress: Types of Blog Post
I'm in the process of working up some documentation for a blog-related event we're having here at RBI later this month. The documents are going to end up as something of a beginner's guide to blogging for trade journalists, and will be going up onto the internal wiki tomorrow, in the hope that some of my colleagues will help develop them further.
But, in the meantime, I've thrown the first of them - Types of Blog Posts - up after the cut for you folks to look at, think about and roundly abuse, if you see fit.
Obviously, I'll be pathetically grateful for any comments or advice…
Devon: Not As Green As It Thinks?
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Vox Incognita
When I started Voxing, waaaaaay back in June of last year, I decided to keep my neighbourhood, as much as possible, to people I actually knew. It was a reaction, in part, to the many other blogs I was reading at the time.
I'm starting to rue that decision.
From Dance to Cornish Piscie to malbonster I'm now, all of a sudden, finding people who are using Vox for really interesting stuff, from cartoons to recipes to photography. And some groups where interesting discussions are happening.
The question is: who am I missing? Which Voxers should I be reading? Who do you recommend to me?
Vox Hunt: Photography - Exposure
Show us a photo that's overexposed or underexposed but you love how it turned out.
Vox Hunt: Photography - Allow Me To Explain...
Show us a photo that requires an explanation.
Enter Disco Stu
Disco Stu has entered the Vox-o-sphere. Go and encourage him with a "hello" and a neighbourhood add....
Fair and Balanced Videos
So, MainMor posted this:
In the interested of fair and balance blogging, I feel the need to post this:
Done.
Should Employers Ban Facebook?
Natalie Cooper, who blogs on The Work Clinic, one of our HR-related blogs, was interviewed on BBC radio last week about Facebook. Like so many internet phenomena, it's reached the level of conciousness amongst the general people that IT managers are starting to run around setting up systems to monitor usage, or even ban the site completely.
Natalie's position, like so many others, is "carefully restrict and monitor".
However, I can't help feeling that all of these decisions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what and how Facebook can be used. For me, it's as much a work tool (keeping up with contacts within this whole web 2.0/online communities shebang) as it is a personal fun tool. Yet all the discussions I'm seeing in the more mainstream media are based on the assumption that Facebook activity is purely for personal fun. And I think that's a poor assumption to make.
And even if people aren't using it for any business purpose, surely existing management policies come into play? If it's distracting people so much that they don't perform as needed, then that needs to be handled like any management issue. Just because a problem is rooted in technology, it doesn't mean it needs a technological solution, especially where people management is concerned.