Comments on: Internal Communications and Twitter http://www.pokethebeehive.com/2009/07/16/internal-communications-and-twitter/ Effective writing and communication strategies for the communication-challenged Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:57:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Hutson http://www.pokethebeehive.com/2009/07/16/internal-communications-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Dan Hutson Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:31:56 +0000 http://www.pokethebeehive.com/?p=751#comment-465 Good points, Ralph. Education and training definitely would be key prerequisites to the success of any Twitter initiative along these lines. The issues of freedom and transparency are interesting ones. Knowing that your tweets are accessible to all within the organization, will employees exercise too much or too little caution in what they post? Either would be potentially damaging to the effectiveness of the program. Corporate culture obviously plays a huge role in this. Good points, Ralph. Education and training definitely would be key prerequisites to the success of any Twitter initiative along these lines. The issues of freedom and transparency are interesting ones. Knowing that your tweets are accessible to all within the organization, will employees exercise too much or too little caution in what they post? Either would be potentially damaging to the effectiveness of the program. Corporate culture obviously plays a huge role in this.

]]> By: Ralph Beentjes http://www.pokethebeehive.com/2009/07/16/internal-communications-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Ralph Beentjes Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:11:44 +0000 http://www.pokethebeehive.com/?p=751#comment-464 I think it is worth a shot, but the company first needs to be internet savvy enough. Making a jump to Twitter from no social corporate network might be too much freedom to employees. I would think employees are not ready to have gained such easy access to talk to the entire organisation. I would believe this would work for a smaller organisation, like 50-100 people who already know each other. In a larger company, employees might be unaware who is "reading" also? Very interesting to see how this might develop! I think it is worth a shot, but the company first needs to be internet savvy enough. Making a jump to Twitter from no social corporate network might be too much freedom to employees.

I would think employees are not ready to have gained such easy access to talk to the entire organisation. I would believe this would work for a smaller organisation, like 50-100 people who already know each other. In a larger company, employees might be unaware who is “reading” also?

Very interesting to see how this might develop!

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