Corporate Podcasting Expressway

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This week we continue with exploring corporate communications strategies - In part 1 of the show we explore Cascade Management and Balanced Scorecards - Strategies for recommending the transformation of business strategies into trackable tactical tasks is discussed.

Part two features another free whitepaper extract from www.k-wiki.com - entitled Managing Conflict.

Feed back, as always, is welcome.

PS Online now and with more to come, downloadable management tools and techniques from the Knowledge Store. 

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The latest Know-wow show is now available through i-tunes and Videopodcasts.TV

In Episode 13 of the Know-Wow Best Practice Project and Management Consultancy Show, we consider the benefits and efficient use of Customer Relationship Management Systems.

* Why it is important for whole of an enterprise’s function’s to use CRM to derive corporate efficiencies
* The importance of cleansed and consistent data and
* How CRM can help forecast and predict sales capacity / pipeline management.

You can watch a streamed version from KHL by clicking on the following play video link.

A compressed version from YouTube is available below:

In addition, you can view all previous videocasts from YouTube’s dedicated channel.

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The Knowledge Store has just been launched. The aim of the online store is to sell eLearning courses, eBooks and both instantly downloadable audio and video file’s focused on business and Information Technology skills. Over the coming days the content developers will be uploading, whitepapers, project management templates, podcasting templates, management concepts through audio and videos and further eLearning courseware. Taking  this approach could potentially offer organisations huge savings, especially if the content is well developed and based both on real experience with well supported case-studies. At the moment only eLearning courseware focused on e-Citzen is available but you can view some of the categories that will be populated. All associated item / product previews will be available from: http://www.k-wiki.com

Here we see the use of three different technologies, the promotion of content through new web tools, traditional content being developed and being made available at a wiki and the use of eCommerce to ensure secure payment for instant downloadable content.

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Peter Day is a well respected and I believe excellent presenter working at the BBC.
His blogsite enitled, ‘Work in Progress’ covers some excellent business issues and provides some great insights.
I recommend you read one of his latest articles is entitled,  ‘The new crypto-capitalists’

After reading it I wondered if I could find out what the history or derivation of this term. The closest definition I could derive was that crypto-capitalists; ‘enjoy the lifestyle of the rich and famous even as they feed revolutionary rhetoric to the poor’.

Are today’s new billionaires exhibiting more than a ‘giving something back’ approach?

There is a suggestion that a moralistic stance and sense of corporate responsibility from the ‘new’ corporations is pervailing.

On the other hand, it is also proposed that, ‘the problems they attack are the symbols of a rotten system, not the rottenness itself’.

However, my view is at least they are doing something!

Take for example Bill and Melinda Gates developing a foundation against HIV Aids. We have to all stand-up and say that this is commendable.

Another example, could be ‘pop stars’, for example, Bono and Bob Geldof. Although, I have to admit that a couple of years ago I was not impressed with the Gold circle, press area and Jonathan Ross’s exclusive bubble, the latter adjacent to the stage, whilst I stood cramped and tip-toed for twelve hours during the 20 year Live Aid anniversary gig held in Hyde Park, London.

Maybe that is the point… Exclusive access and a true force for change is not happening. Why should such a demarcation form?

I also ask if much is being spent in good faith will it really make a long term difference?
This long term difference can only come through a combined investment in education and a will for the politicians in change to commit.

Ultimately, it is up to us, the consumers, that has to demand change to take place.
Sometimes people sign online petition’s but I’ve seen that money talks louder!

Maybe it is through a combination of sustained actions and greater social networking that can generate create a ‘wave’ for change.
For example, if we all refuse to buy cheap flowers from supermarkets because we want to see greater safety standards in African greenhouses, the message will I hope get through.

If the new crypto-capitalists wish to be truly moralistic, then their products and internal working practices need to reflect a new attitude of respect for the community both environmentally and through integrated ethical organisational activities.

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This week, in part one we review nine Corporate Communication Strategies and associated factors.

Part two features another free whitepaper extract from www.k-wiki.com - entitled Managing Customer complaints.

Feed back, as always, is welcome.

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I was recently featured in the attached: eBulletin for 14 to 19 Richmond Partnership
It was fun to forecast what our future information professionals may be challenged with!

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Whilst looking through various podcasts I came across an interesting an excellent one on called: traex.de jazz funk trip hop music podcast,  available at i-tunes . This link gave me an opportunity to find the podcast producers on the web at:  traex.de .

Whilst browsing through their front page it suggested an excellent video at: http://one.revver.com/watch/232656/flv

The site provides embedded code that allows you to load the video on to your own web page so that others can view/share it.
In addition, I discovered Revver’s founder, Steven Starr. Interestingly he, like me enjoys Askaninja podcasts!

The video features a singer, whose details can be found at: her myspace account.

Finally, I wanted to see if the director of the video had uploaded his video to YouTube. I typed in ‘MASAHIRO USHIYAMA’ into the search bar and was pleased to discover it. You can also find out about Earth Academy, who foster an iconoclastic global organisation of forward thinking creatives, who encourage & propagate progressive and ethical human progress,through inspirational art and positive focus.

Implications for Corporations
Before you watch and enjoy it, consider the potential power of following a similar trail of research inside a corporation’s knowledge management system. We would need to consider taxonomy (the science of classification), i.e: whether the organisation’s knowledge management system has been structured effectively.

Another approach is to consider; Ontology - defined by wikipedia.org as analysing various types or modes of existence. Or, relationships within a domain.

There appears to a common thread between both computer science and philosophy, i.e: the representation of entities, ideas, and events, along with their properties and relations, according to a system of categories.

I belive that there is great potential for corporations to harness these relationships. This means that if internal systems could be more socially focused in terms of skills (e.g: more accessible skills databases that could provide virtual interviewing through competence and succession planning matching), people profiles (e.g:personal blog pages), sharing ideas (e.g: dedicated discussion sites/forums) and showcasing work (e.g:online publishing of department ideas), it could potentially lead to greater corporate unity, improvement in communication flows and collaborative focus on developing new ideas. With regard to the latter, for example, sharing ideas around customer win strategies.

Now here is the video, enjoy!

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