Today's verbal conversations (text doesn't count):
- 6:15 and 6:45 pm: Happy Hour. Neighbor Gail Galin calls to invite me to happy hour. Oddly, I opt to do this blog instead so I can avoid the guilt of not getting anything up since May 13.
- 6:00 pm: The Summer Olympics in Beijing and how a single EMCer named Feng figured out a way to get EMC some pretty major branding as a result. (more on Feng later.)
- 5:00 pm JIVE software ease of use as a brilliant engineer friend, Peter Quirk http://peterquirk.wordpress.com/, helped me load up the new “CULTURE TALK” community on our internal social network called EMC ONE … which runs on software created by JIVE.
- 3:30 pm Ideas to help crack the “reward and recognition” code. I shared with Beth and Catherine, who came seeking advice, to throw away any “normal ideas” like posters and newsletters and then gave some tips to move the needle.
- 3:00 pm Life for a peer, Abhrajit Bhattacharjee, who I had the pleasure of meeting today. Abhra is from India, joined EMC 5 years ago and now lives in Singapore. He’s in the States for EMC World where he will help to host the 89 journalists who are flying to Las Vegas to attend. Ends up Abhra also used to produce radio shows … which will help with VISUAL LIVE RADIO. As a communications expert living in APJ, can also help with EMC & the Beijing Olympics.
- 2:00 pm Meeting with Drew Pion, producer of successful EMC customer communication program called EMC LIVE; Susan Shapiro, EMC ONE community manager; Monya Keane, editor of our award winning employee magazine EMC.Now; Steve Todd software developer and blogger http://stevetodd.typepad.com/; Barbara Massa EMC US recruiting honcho; and my employment brand partners Brandi Hamlin; Paula Cuddy; and Laura Burns to plan the “EMC Culture Talk VISUAL LIVE RADIO SHOW.” Somehow Bring your Dog to Work Day came up which later spurred a Steve Todd blog and some enthusiastic discussions on EMC ONE.
- 1:00 pm Another hour with Peter Quirk helping me with HTML and other "fun" elements of social community building on EMC ONE.
- 12:00 noon Scheduling decisions for next week including confirming attending the Boston Globe Top 100 companies breakfast on Tuesday and a dinner/Red Sox game on Monday night with EMC customers at the EMC Club.
- 11:00 am Brand messaging meeting with Brandi and Paula. We’re working to get the right words to tie our external brand story with our employment brand story. The connections are brilliant. We just need to get it crisp. They also re-baked the phrases used to describe the EMC culture a bit. It all works (the before and after picture); I’m digesting.
- 10:00 am Relay a bunch of “great ideas” to Brandi. Ask her to contact Cisco as I hear they do an employee radio show of sorts. Cisco is a partner.
- 9:00 am The giant box of suits to donate to the ‘back to work’ suit drive remains in the back seat of my car. Must get that to Joy Foster – that angel who volunteers her time to do this at the HQ building.
- 8:00 am Discuss parenting strategies with my friend Cathy who helps me keep my house sane and somewhat clean.
- 7:00 am Talk about what jewelry my newly 13 year old daughter Sophie would like to receive for her birthday; about the phone message the principal from Westborough High left on parents voicemails about a fight that broke out between two high school boys yesterday; about moves to help with a knee pain I have and about how I wasn’t enjoying those tricep dips my personal trainer Carol Thompson was making me do.
- 6:30 am Listening to the excited rambling of 6 year old Margo as we hula hoop and watch each other’s latest tricks.
- 6:00 am Explaining to Sophie why I had to get a third iPOD.
- 5:45 am Telling Sophie that the towel in the middle of the hallway was from when her 3 year old brother peed through his new big boy Superman underwear right in that spot at 2am when he was trying to get to the bathroom on time.
PHOTO: My 3 year old son, Oscar.
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