Facebook for Corporate Communications?

April 9, 2008

By Ben Dillon, Vice President, and Corporate Evangelist

Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess, told a great story in his blog last week about how Facebook is seeing use in his organization as an internal communications tool.  I had an opportunity to see Paul speak last year and he’s a passionate advocate for the potential of social media tools.  While I’m not quite ready to endorse Facebook as a core management communications tool as he suggests, I do think there are some excellent lessons in his story.

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Decentralized Authoring

April 9, 2008

By Eric Engelmann, President & CEO

There’s a great post at Webiscope about decentralized authoring – allowing many individuals within the hospital to create and edit content for your Web site – and some of the challenges it brings.

Since we’ve done this for many clients, I’ve pulled together a few of the things that we’ve found work best.

Aaron lists three main area of concern:

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