New Communications Forum: Day 1

From my own perspective, the first day of New Communications Forum 2005 has been an enlightening experience. As I've workshop outline). During each 90-minute session, we discussed these tools in the broad context of how employees can use them as informal means to develop effective relationships with other employees and share information and knowledge more easily. Such big-picture talk often doesn't help people more clearly understand how they can apply these tools themselves, in their own companies, so we had some practical work to do where the participants were divided up into two teams, with each team discussing a different typical situation in a company and making recommendations for which tools might be appropriate to use in addressing some specific communication objectives. The feedback I've had so far indicates that everyone participating got some real value from this approach. And we had some really good ideas surfacing as a result of this type of role-playing exercise. One thing that has been just great is that I've finally met some terrific people, names in the business blogging scene that will be familiar to many of you, including Renee Blodgett, Jeremy Wright, Dan Forbush, Tom Foremski, Alice Marshall, in addition to the Silverado Resort restaurant tonight: From left to right: Neville Hobson, Dan Forbush, Constantin Basturea, John Gerstner, Shel Holtz. We had a great dinner! Edit: Shel and I did a NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.

Neville is currentlly the VP of New Marketing at NevilleHobson.com