stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley


	Our experiment with corporate blogging a failure? Well, TOWER's product development section has been playing with internal-only blogging for about a week now. So far there's been less than 10 posts, and fewer than that comments. All of this for a section of around 40 humans. The problems I see with the blogging so far? People aren't reading the blog, which results in it not being a good way of contacting people about stuff. Until people get better at reading it, you need to tell them there is new content there before they bother to go and read it. People don't read the blog because there isn't enough content. The first two are related. People need to run an aggregator to find out what is happening, and I happen to work with a bunch of people who aren't running aggregators already (only two of the 40?). So, who has suggestions on how to get people to actually start using this facility, or is the whole thing destined to be a big shiny failure? posted at: 15:46 \| path: /diary \| permanent link to this entry There are no comments on this post which have survived moderation. 4 posts have been culled and 3 blocked. Be the first to make a non-spam comment here, please!


	The tempest, but 11 year old kids On Saturday night I went to the Tempest, as performed by a group of school kids. I went because Kate, Catherine and my god daughter was performing as one of the evil lords (a role I feel suited her well). Anyways, I knew nothing about the play before I went along and in fact joked that I thought it was about short term office workers. The play was excellent, especially considering that the kids involved only had a week to learn their lines. Some of them had an awful lot of monologs to perform, and got away with only minimal prompting. It kinda made me want to see a professional performance, or at least read the book. posted at: 15:44 \| path: /diary/theatre \| permanent link to this entry There are no comments on this post which have survived moderation. 4 posts have been culled and 2 blocked. Be the first to make a non-spam comment here, please!