Blogging The Market

“Blogging the Market - How Weblogs are turning corporate machines into real conversations”

Weinberger provided this link to a lenghty paper by George Dafermos on the importance of real voices in corporate communication. And weblogs as a way to facilitate the inevitable. Cluetrain taken further.

update:

It’s obvious that most companies are bewildered by the ever perplexing web of conversations that the network of networks is actually made of. On the one hand, they are not willing to abandon their mass-driven, one-way approach to the market and engage into real conversations.

There is no need to do so: bombarding customers with marketing messages works fine (that’s what they think anyway) and lobotomising employees with the hierarchy axe so that they are unable to have their own mind also works. On the other hand, there is the Net which envisages an ideal infrastructure for circulating ideas and indulging into conversations.

This is the great tension that management currently strives for reconciling: how to make use of the Net without deviating from established best practices, how to network without becoming really networked, how to connect without being connected.

Not bad. More will come. Stay tuned.

2 kommentarer til “Blogging The Market”

  1. Hans Henrik siger:

    Jeg har lige skimmet artiklen - den er VIRKELIG god. Lad mig høre hvad andre synes….;-)

  2. Donald siger:

    Der er rigtig mange anvendelser for weblogs, sandt nok. Det er befriende at der er en som har sat ord på, tænkt det igennem. Især p.g.a. mine erfaringer med svigtende kommunikation er jeg meget glad for weblog-kommunikation. Der er mange opgaver som kan løses bedre ved at kommunikere mere om dem. Jeg vil læse disse links ordentligt igen senere.

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