<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>cluetrainee&#039;s blog...</title>
	<atom:link href="http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>Numbers Behind The Conversation</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:41:36 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='cluetrainee.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/94cbc3a1aac89483d94d8f72a5cc7ddd?s=96&#038;d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>cluetrainee&#039;s blog...</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="cluetrainee&#039;s blog..." />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>Prepare: We Will All Be Online Businesses One Day</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/prepare-we-will-all-be-online-businesses-one-day/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/prepare-we-will-all-be-online-businesses-one-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Corporate Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Role of Online]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are a steel-maker with annual revenues of €500m. Or a retailer.  Or an engineering firm. Your revenues grow by 5% each year &#8211; relatively predictably. Just 20% of your revenues are from online sales today.  And that is growing by 25% each year. Two things about these numbers spring to my mind &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=417&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/prepare-we-will-all-be-online-businesses-one-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://cluetrainee.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/online-when-simple-graphic.png?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Online When Simple Graphic</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://cluetrainee.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/onlinewhen-detailed-graph-graphic.png?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">OnlineWhen Detailed Graph Graphic</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://cluetrainee.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/onlinewhen-detailed-graphic.png?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">OnlineWhen Detailed Graphic</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Ecosystem: Principles and Management</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/ecosystem-ecosystem-principles-and-ecosystem-management/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/ecosystem-ecosystem-principles-and-ecosystem-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 07:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecosystem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The term Ecosystem is now ubiquitous in US business, and becoming so in the UK.  (It&#8217;s especially embedded in software development circles but leaking everywhere).  It&#8217;s replacing words like &#8220;Supply Chain&#8221;, and compared to &#8220;Supply Chain&#8221; serves as a good illustration of the difference between a business without social technologies and a business with. Social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=411&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/ecosystem-ecosystem-principles-and-ecosystem-management/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Don&#8217;t Chase The Numbers</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/dont-chase-the-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/dont-chase-the-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 06:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Corporate Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re a pilot.  You&#8217;re ascending up to 2,000&#8242; with 200&#8242; to go.  Start to level out.  Oops, overshot at 2,150&#8242;.  Nose down.  Dive.  Level out.  Oops 1,900&#8242;.  Up.  2,050.  A touch down, 1,950&#8242;.  Up, there, good. 2,050&#8242;.  Down again.  2,000&#8242;. Perfect.  Level out. 1,950&#8242;.  Up a touch.  2,000&#8242;, Straight and Level.  Done. As any pilot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=408&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/dont-chase-the-numbers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>HR and Internal Comms Directors Could Benefit from VC School</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/hr-and-internal-comms-directors-could-benefit-from-vc-school/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/hr-and-internal-comms-directors-could-benefit-from-vc-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 05:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Corporate Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Venture Capitalists sit on pots of money.  They pronounce that they are investing in “infrastructure”, “telecomms”, “green tech” etc.  Businesspeople flock to them to pursuade them to part with some money in return for more back at a later time. Why don’t HR Directors do the same? Why don’t they announce their budgets, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=406&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/hr-and-internal-comms-directors-could-benefit-from-vc-school/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Marketeers Could Benefit From VC School</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/marketeers-could-benefit-from-vc-school/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/marketeers-could-benefit-from-vc-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 13:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Venture Capitalists sit on pots of money.  They pronounce that they are investing in &#8220;infrastructure&#8221;, &#8220;telecomms&#8221;, &#8220;green tech&#8221; etc.  Businesspeople flock to them to pursuade them to part with some money in return for more back at a later time. Why don&#8217;t Marketing Directors do the same? Why don&#8217;t they announce their budgets, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=401&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/marketeers-could-benefit-from-vc-school/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Harvard Business Review Has Hippies Too</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/harvard-business-review-has-hippies-too/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/harvard-business-review-has-hippies-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 10:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Corporate Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Umair Haque writes a blog for the Harvard Business Review.  He too, is highly motivated by the &#8220;Open Management&#8221; school of thought and like others, offers his own interpretation and checklist. His hippy/heretical views include &#8220;20th century leadership is what&#8217;s stopping 21st century prosperity&#8221;, &#8220;we should be seeking to reboot leadership&#8221; and the maniacal &#8220;yesterday&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=398&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/harvard-business-review-has-hippies-too/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Another Hippy List &#8211; There&#8217;s Something In This</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/another-hippy-list-theres-something-in-this/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/another-hippy-list-theres-something-in-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 10:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Corporate Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another nice description of what it means to be an open organisation.  This time from Rick Burnes, a fairly extraordinary guy working in a web company called HubSpot based in the US who makes some nice points. He doesn&#8217;t use the term &#8220;Open&#8221;, but he cites the comparison of &#8220;Field&#8221; versus &#8220;Factory&#8221; as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=395&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/another-hippy-list-theres-something-in-this/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>We Are All Hippies &#8211; Problems With The Open Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/we-are-all-hippies-the-problem-with-an-open-manifesto/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/we-are-all-hippies-the-problem-with-an-open-manifesto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 23:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Corporate Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked much of the &#8220;Online Corporate Culture&#8221;.  But I&#8217;m failing to make the case for it in convincing terms.  And it&#8217;s not just me. The best wording for the whole area seems to be &#8220;Open&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Open Management&#8221;, particularly, is fast becoming an established school of thought. The trouble is that the conventional descriptions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=386&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/we-are-all-hippies-the-problem-with-an-open-manifesto/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>ROI and Measurement Online: It Is Breathlessly Simple</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/roi-and-measurement-online-it-is-breathlessly-simple/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/roi-and-measurement-online-it-is-breathlessly-simple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Measuring Return]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years and years, measurement of marketing and communication has been a complicated activity.  There&#8217;s an industry dedicated to it: researching and quantifying and giving us the many measures now which we take for granted: spontaneous awareness, prompted awareness, recall, sentiment, propensity, preference, recognition, and so on. But we don&#8217;t need any of these online. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=382&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/roi-and-measurement-online-it-is-breathlessly-simple/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>In Praise of The Reflexive / Responsive Organisation</title>
		<link>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/in-praise-of-the-reflexive-responsive-organisation/</link>
		<comments>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/in-praise-of-the-reflexive-responsive-organisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cluetrainee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Corporate Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cluetrainee.com/?p=377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three massive cheers for Marks &#38; Spencer &#8211; showing how a BIG company can acknowledge humanity and fallibility &#8211; and emerge from &#8220;hiccups&#8221; MORE respected and BETTER than they were before.  In the eyes of a community, failure is not unusual &#8211; it is the response.  In this case definitely reputation-enhancing for M&#38;S. Here&#8217;s the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cluetrainee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5456981&amp;post=377&amp;subd=cluetrainee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://cluetrainee.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/in-praise-of-the-reflexive-responsive-organisation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/86247a2da6e4122427f3d63364c189b2?s=96&#38;d=wavatar" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cluetrainee</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://cluetrainee.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/ms.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">MS</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
