Someone I met at Lotusphere asked where my blog was. I can't do a real blog, of course, because that might qualify as actual communication that's associated with the Lotus brand. We IBMers are forbidden to do that.
Instead, we're charged with "cleverly" manipulating our business partners and customers into generating "buzz" for us. I say "cleverly" in quotes, because the only strategy anyone ever seems to buy into is to do something so incredibly bad that we get a news cycle of people making fun of us. It's so frustrating.
*sigh* I had some good ideas when I took this job, and now slowly, but surely, they are being crushed out of me.
Mood: depressed.
