Getting Your Message Across

Communication is key to business success, whether it is corporate communications to keep staff in touch, news about the competition or the regulatory environment, marketing to customers, or public relations.

And good communication is not just a one-way street. Feedback is essential to making sure your message is understood and gathering ideas and thoughts back from the target audience.

Communicating On-Line

Recently we have all become more familiar with new ways to communicate on the internet.

Blogs

have become the main way to keep a personal journal, while

FaceBook

and

Bebo

ipitomise the phenomenon of social networking. The next generation are already communicating in these new ways and the success of these methods have seen them start to be used much more seriously in the corporate environment.

In business, access to communicate on behalf of an organisation has to be carefully controlled not only for commercial reasons, but sometimes for legal ones too. So the ideal on-line communications tool has to be secure. It also has to be flexible and this is where the eMerlin Blog Place comes into its own because it is much more than just a blog. You can customise the Place to create folders to store discussions and documents in, make changes to who can access the site and control the content simply through a browser.

And its not only a browser that can be used. The technology behind eMerlin Places comes with "Connectors" that allow you to add files directly to a Place from Microsoft Word, Excel and even Windows Explorer. Not many social networking sites can do that! eMerlin Places is the on-line communication tool for business. Please take a look at the demo to get more information.

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The eMerlin site has a demo system for both the Wiki Place (or Live Manual) and the Team Place. We hope to add a Blog Place soon. IBM have a screenshot of a blog place which you can see by clicking here.

Getting Started

To get up and running with an eMerlin Place of your own, you can sign up by clicking on the New Account link at the top of this page to record your details securely. You can use our on-line services as a company or an individual.

If you want to have a Place on a computer within your own company, we can help with that too. Just get in touch (there is a "Contact Us" link at the top of the page) and let us know your requirements.

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Getting Your Message Across

Communicating On-Line

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Getting Started