Thoughts on social media, business and journalism from Suw and Kevin Charman-Anderson
Kevin spotted a great Tweet yesterday from Peter Corbett:
And I’m afraid I just couldn’t contain the geologist within (click to see full size):
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Suw Charman-Anderson is a social software consultant and writer who specialises in the use of blogs and wikis behind the firewall. With a background in journalism, publishing and web design, Suw is now one of the UK's best known bloggers, frequently speaking at conferences and seminars.
Her personal blog is Chocolate and Vodka, and yes, she's married to Kevin.
Kevin Anderson has been an online journalist since 1996, designing, editing and writing websites for both broadcast and print media. In 1998, he joined the BBC and became their first online journalist based outside of the UK, covering the US for its award winning news website. After coming to the UK in 2005, he developed a blogging strategy for BBC news, helped launch a programme on the BBC's 5Live covering weblogs and podcasts and was on the team that launched the interactive radio programme World Have Your Say on the BBC World Service.
Kevin is now the Digital Research Editor at The Guardian. He is responsible for keeping pace with the latest innovations in social media and digital technology and helping to integrate them into Guardian journalism. Before that, he was the first blogs editor at the Guardian.
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I like how the idea of information flows downwards only. Must be a upper level management view of things. Personally I prefer a 2 way street, but as with all these things, when someone has been in the business 15 years and is more than just a little long in the tough, they know how to ram ideas down people’s throats and teach grandmothers to suck eggs
Suck is the word!
I think the middle layer is less about being “middle management” than it is about being a) close minded, b) risk averse and c) lacking any kind of vision. This is a question of ‘quality of human’ rather than station/location/position.
Love the graphic
I agree with Peter’s assessment that middle management is closed minded, risk adverse and lacking any kind of vision. But I think the root cause is not in their lack of quality as humans but that they are a product of the system that they are in. This eventually goes back to upper management and their lack of leadership, specifically servant-leadership.