Publicity
"But the coolest thing about Chatter Mill is... the benefits of real-time employee ratings of questions and answers, subscribing managers to automated reports by e-mail and more." -- Eileen Burmeister, The Ragan Report, April 16, 2007
- There Are Superheroes in Employee Communications
The idea is simple. Companies can purchase Chatter Mill to work just like "Ask the Management" did for Adidas. Newcomer remarks that "clearly, corporate communicators need better ways to respond to sensitive topics such as personnel changes, legal matters, or just to bring employee ideas to light so they stay engaged. We developed Chatter Mill precisely to provide a safe, direct dialog between managers and employees." Read more ...
- Blue Hill challenges companies to "Kill the water cooler!"
Conference speaker Nova Newcomer, founding partner of Portland, Oregon-based Blue Hill Solutions LLC, attracted a standing-room-only crowd to her “Kill the Water Cooler” presentation here today at the 3rd Annual New Communications Forum, hosted by Ragan and the Society for New Communications Research. The “water cooler” in question, she said, symbolized the unofficial “back-channels” in which employee perspectives and concerns about top-down corporate messages circulate, invariably becoming magnified and distorted in the process. Read more...
Events
May 2007 - The 16th Annual Corporate Communicators Conference
March 2007 - New Communications Forum
Press
For press inquiries, please contact pr@bluehillsolutions.com.