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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5321
Total number of notes:	139771

102.0. "DECWORLD (the newsletter) for customers?" by THEBAY::MTHOMAS (Matt Thomas) Wed Apr 09 1986 15:08

    I was in the office a while ago and saw something that bugged me.
    One of the sales secretaries was putting mailing labels on issues of 
    DECWORLD so they could be sent to customers.  I don't know about
    you, but that irritated me.  
    
    DECWORLD is a monthly newsletter sent to Digital employees with 
    info about Digital.  I don't think it should be sent to customers.
    Sometimes it includes marketing information and other internal-only
    information.  But nowhere in it is it said to be for internal use
    only.
    
    Comments?
    
    matt

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
102.1	DECworld is for everybody...	JAWS::MHARRIS	Mac	`Wed Apr 09 1986 15:37`	12
	The DECworld newsletter is not intended as an "Internal Use Only" publication. Otherwise, it would not be distributed by the U.S. Postal Service to employees AND their families (some members of which, perhaps, work for competitors). If the presence of sensitive marketing, organizational or strategic information is a concern, it should be expressed to the editors or publisher. Corporate Employee Communications is a department within Corporate Personnel, and its publications exist under rather strict management supervision. Mac.
102.2	DECworld isn't for customers	NY1MM::SWEENEY	Pat Sweeney	`Wed Apr 09 1986 22:03`	18
	If we have a message to send current customers or prospective customers it had better be focused and not just what "happenned to be lying around". The correct item to send to current customers and prospective customers is INSIGHT. DECWORLD is trying to create an awareness of Digital as a manufacturing organization to the service people and vice versa, to give biographies of new vice presidents, and so on. I'm a customer of Coca Cola and I really don't care to know if their employee benefits package has been expanded or whatever, know what I mean? And just because we don't mark something "INTERNAL USE" doesn't mean handing it over to customers makes it "the right thing".
102.3	DECWorld or DECAmerica ?	BRSDVP::PIGEON	raymond pigeon	`Tue Aug 19 1986 11:09`	7
	Shouldn't all employees at least get their own copy ? Even in Europe? I use to get my own but it has been years since I havn't seen any around. I inquired to personnel and I was told that only a few managers did get it. If somebody knows an address where I could subscribe...
102.4		THEBAY::MTHOMAS	The Mad Hacker	`Tue Aug 19 1986 13:47`	13
	Editorial offices: Coporate Employee Communication 150 Coulter Drive Concord, Mass 01742 CFO2-3/K23 Editor: Richard Seltzer Associate Editor: Mark Fredrickson In the U.S. the Employee Master File is used for addresses. If your address is incorrect, please see your Personnel representative. In G.I.A. copies are bulk shipped to all facilities for local distribution. European lists and procedures are being updated and revised.