E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez

Research on Internal Corporate Weblogging

One of my colleagues inside of IBM, Lindsay, has been busy the last few weeks conducting a research around the topic of Internal Corporate Weblogging, so that she can finish off her thesis for her master’s degree in Management Communications and in order to complete the study she just launched a web survey, hosted at the always fine service SurveyMonkey, where she is asking for input from other people whether they are having a weblog or not, and whether they are having an Intranet or an Internet weblog. In short, she needs input based on the topic of corporate weblogging and she has asked a whole bunch of us to actually spread the message around so that she can get as much input as possible.

Thus here you have got the e-mail she has just sent out to us a little while ago:

“Hello and Happy Friday!  Before you head out to enjoy the weekend, I’d like to ask for your help.  As you may know, I am just about to complete my master’s degree in Management Communications with a thesis on the topic of corporate blogging as an internal communications tool.
 
To supplement the research I’ve read so far, I’m conducting my own survey.  I’ve included a link to my online survey below.  At your earliest convenience, please complete the survey (which includes a brief description of my thesis and the definition of blogging – just in case you are new to the topic).  I would also like to ask you to forward this survey to as many people as you can.
 
Please note, this survey is NOT restricted to only those whose employers offer internal blogging – so please share it with everyone you know – inside and outside of IBM.  The more I can learn about companies outside of our own, that are or are not blogging internally, the better!  Also – those who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing for a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com.
 
Thank you, in advance, for your input and time — and have a great weekend!
 
Link to Survey:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=318901409057“

There you go. If you can spare 10 minutes of your time, it would be great if you could add some further input into the survey so that the more data there is the better and the much more accurate the study would be. I have been advised as well that the results would be available as well afterwards and as such it may be a good chance to show how important you think weblogging is, specially in the business world.

If you take the time to fill in the survey thanks a lot for that, and if you do not have the time to participate just forward it to all those folks who you think would be willing to participate. As I said, the more, the better.

Technorati Tags : IBM, Metablogging, Corporate+Blogging, Survey, Study, Research

IBM Research Turns 60

Earlier on this week you have probably seen an article at CNET to mark the 60th anniversary of the creation of IBM Research. It looks like it was yesterday but it is already 60 years since its creation and still going strong ! And while reading through that news article, along with the discussion over at /., you can see the kind of impact IBM Research has had in our daily lives.

During the course of the week there have been a number of different events taking place, with lots of people from different IBM background getting together, sharing experiences, knowledge and whatever other bits and pieces of information around the anniversary and so much more. Thus from here I just wanted to say HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY to IBM Research ! Let’s make it another 60 years of changing how the world operates. Let’s continue making a difference !

For those of you interested in reading some further stuff on the same topic check out this news article from ZDNET: IBM Research turns 60.

As I said, Happy birthday, folks ! And thanks for being there making this world a better place to live in ! Well done and may I wish you many more years to come !

Technorati Tags : IBM, IBM+Research, Research

Updates to Weblog Template Are Now Completed

As you may have been able to see already, I have just finished updating the template for elsua and by the looks of it I doubt I would be making some other major changes for the time being. There are a couple of different things I would want to add but they seem to be down at the moment, so we will have to wait on those and see what happens.

However, everything else is working just fine. Thanks to the help from a good friend (And work colleague) of mine, Aneel, I have managed to include the final touches fixing the archives along with the Blogroll. Thus we are up and running, folks ! Everything should be working just fine, but if you find that there is a broken link or something that is giving you unexpected results just drop a comment or contact me offline and will look into it right away.

I must say that I thought updating the template would be a little bit painful since I got started with an almost empty template, but over time I was finding out that except for a hack or two it was not too difficult overall. And I am glad that is the case, because from now on I can concentrate on sharing some further content in my weblog and get engaged on the conversations.

Thus to everyone out there who has been reading off my weblog during the course of the last few days thanks a bunch for the patience and for sticking around ! Let’s now have some more fun !