As hierarchical power is under threat like never before, resistance to more effective and democratic approaches will no doubt continue–and needs to be understood as well as confronted by facts.

All the best,

Mike Klein–The Intersection
http://intersectionblog.wordpress.com

As well as getting people away from email, there’s a challenge to demonstrate that on-line collaboration can be more productive and less expensive than always relying on meetings.

I think the point about switching off the old ways of working is important. There are parallels with the healthy school meals debate – you have to take the burgers away to get the kids eating the couscous

Take HR Guidance this is usually made available to staff via the Intranet but why not let the public see the guidance. Many organisations have HR guidance that if you saw it as a member of the public much of it would make want to apply for a job at that organisations. Plus you are being transparent. Some may already do this already.

Their is of course another side to internal communications which is knowledge sharing. But this should not be only between colleagues via an internal web only available to staff but opened up to a wider community. I realise security is an issue but these can be overcome.

Yammer is I think a bulwark to get more people of e-mail and knowledge sharing across organisations. Just discovered that adding #yam to my tweet promoting this blog post makes the Tweets show up on my Yammer. So have been able to share this blog post with my colleagues and Tweet it out publicly. Though what niggles me about Yammer is why are my colleagues not just on Twitter. To be fair many are I using Twitter list you can group them together and listen and connect.