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A pub blog: Excellent idea

garym — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:34:54 -0500

This idea of yours is maybe better than you think, providing it doesn't stray into privacy issues -- I've seen several pubs with online journals by the staff telling of news in and around their community; a pub is a community hub, so it's a natural for this sort of role online.

but be aware, someone has to actually do the work, and if you don't sustain the output, you can quickly get forgotten. Designate someone on staff as the host and give them license to ask participation, and engage your community too.

It can be cheap, and one that I often recomment is the free blogger.com just to get you started; easy to use, no awkard HTML to learn, you just enter your story and push the publish button.

If you do decide to roll out a Canadian pub blog, please do let me know!

a cold one..far far away..

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 01:18:23 -0400

Its kind of like having a cool Guinness, behind glass..heck..its there..and you can drink it..but don't dare touch it.Reminds me of an old Pinto I used to own.."nice car..hows it drive?" me"I don't know,it won't let me drive it"

Good News?

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 15:09:43 -0400

Hey Gary - you see, you ol' cynic you :-)

Here is relief for those still using IE - MS hasn't fixed the problem but they are offering a way to disable your browser from this specific attack. How great is that, IE users are safe again at least until tomorrow morning.

:-)

Blog Software

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:20:08 -0500

I am new to the internet and I am surfing here and this is very interesting reading. I did a search in the search engines on "pub bar entertainment blog software" and I found your web blog and although "software" isnot the Blog Software I was looking for, it was very interesting reading.
I am researching blogs as I was interested in a blog for myself, that is if I can understand how to operate a blog. The different things discussed on this website found by searching for "pub bar entertainment blog" is very amusing and from seeing and understanding more of how a blog operates, it may be more than this Halifax pub guy to handle.

thanks for the insight
see you at the pub ( some call it bar! )

B. J. Johns,
A Halifax Pub Enthusiast

Social Networking

Sun, 25 May 2003 18:26:00 -0400

From Dave Pollard at How to Save the World:

I agree that KM has not lived up to its name, and comment on a particularly scathing attack on KM that another KM blogger Ian Glendenning brought to my attention here. We’re really back to the stage of selling KM to management on its value propositions. It hasn’t made much difference to worker productivity or employee learning. It’s made no impact at all on business innovation (where many, including me, thought it held greatest promise). Its greatest success has been tapping customer/market knowledge/information and hence improving the Sales process. If we’re to ‘sell’ Social Software as a KM tool, we need to convince managemement that there are top-line or bottom-line or customer or learning returns on Social Software investment. I think that will be a harder sell than we might expect.

K-Powered Enterprise

Charlene Hutt — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 00:34:10 -0400

Had the good fortune of hearing Mark Federman's comments in person.....his book is coming out in September and I have already ordered it at my favorite business bookstore. M. McLuhan may not be of this world any longer but he lives on in the hearts and minds of the McLuhan Program at U of Toronto. Mark asks "What haven't you thought of?" Guess I can put my tarot cards away and just follow his 4 points and be able to predict the outcome of almost anything.....am looking forward to his contemporary look at the "Media King's" thinking........