meeting at TDC HR last friday

On August 23rd, 2006 Henriette Weber wrote:

Henriette had a meeting with TDC HR last Friday and was greeted in their old beautiful domicile on nørregade 21 in Copenhagen N by Mathilde.

Already walking up the stairs the conversation turned to weblogs. Mathilde told that TDC was going to do a blog project soon – just to see how the tool would work in such a big organisation.

The agenda of the meeting was general information on social software (we limited ourselves to weblogs and WIKIs) so the HR department would have an understanding on how you could use the social software tools internally in the organisation.
We had also evaluated beforehand, that the actual implementation and moderation of the community based on blogs would be a good subject to cover.

The general idea was to make TDC HR understand that social software –is two things:

1. Tools for conversations and communication on the internet
2. Mentality change within the person (and by this way the organisation)

We started off covering some of the benefits of weblogs and why it was seen to be one of the defining tools of the new dimension of the web. The argumentation of the benefits of blogging was the role of creating conversation, and the spontaneity of RSS.

What seemed to catch their attention was the layout, and how you could differentiate it by adding features such as tag clouds, RSS and moblogs.

Then the talk fell on the structure of blogging and how people and organisations use it.

(Examples was henrietteweber.com, arla.dk and ebblog.dk)

A walk through bloglines as an RSS tool was also in place. And by actually seeing it in function (RSS) they understood it right away.

For the WIKI part of the conversation examples were wikipedia.net, gaffapedia.dk and canicrash.org

There was even a suggestion that a employee handbook could be build on a WIKI…

In conclusion it was a good meeting, with not too much fuzz or hardcore details. It was very informative and the tools were explained well. Next time we are going to cover change of mentality but also implementation – or at least that is what we hope for.
[ToothlessTiger]