Two and a half years ago, I suggested that my company publish an industry news feed, and build a feed reader into the web applications that we build for our clients. Most of our clients are in a very vertical market, so this could have flown, I thought - we could have delivered useful news, and slipped product release information in there too.
Did my company pick up this idea and run with it? Did they buggery.
Well, it appears that it wasn't such a stupid idea after all. Even Bill Gates thinks that blogs are useful business communication tool now.
This is distinct from the plogging idea I mentioned recently, BTW. Plogging is the use of a blog as an internal communication tool - Gates was talking about using them as external communication tools, too.
Via Coté.
Posted to Blogs by Simon Brunning at May 21, 2004 11:48 AMSimon why do people in the London Insurance Market need bloggs for? They all drink in the same couple of pubs.
Posted by: El Presidente on May 21, 2004 11:59 AMIndeed.
But El P, the bRunning man is right on the "I told you so" stakes. Humour him, it makes him feel better.
Uh-oh...second time this week I've been baffled by English slang. Can you suggest a good English slang dictionary? Dictionary.com scared me on this one[1]. I see via peevish.co.uk that your company Objected, confirming my guess.
[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=buggery
Posted by: DeanG on May 21, 2004 03:53 PMMark you should know I can't tell Simon he's right, not about anything, he’s unbearable enough already! You of all people should understand that.
Posted by: El Presidente on May 21, 2004 04:07 PMPaul,
I don't need to be *told* I'm right - I know that already.
Dean,
Errr, no, I don't know a good dictionary of UK colloquial english, sorry. Anybody?
Don't worry about the *literal* translation - "Did they buggery" just means "No, they didn't".
Posted by: Simon Brunning on May 21, 2004 04:16 PMOh, I see, you found one, Dean - http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
Posted by: Simon Brunning on May 21, 2004 04:17 PMThanks. I found one but wasn't sure if it was blessed. Will work for now, still open for suggestings. Thanks for the fun blog.
Posted by: DeanG on May 21, 2004 10:35 PMThe http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/ one looks pretty good, Dean; I'd stick with that for the moment.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on May 24, 2004 01:49 PM