Who Is Reading Your Internal Memos?
The Boston Globe has a story on the dubious but unignorable internalmemos.com--a site we regularly monitor on behalf of our clients.
Called InternalMemos.com, the website posts company memos for public view. The documents are sent by anonymous employees who, as of Jan. 30, had e-mailed more than 2,000 memos to the site, according to founder Philip Kaplan. Kaplan said InternalMemos.com receives 500,000 visitors a day and netted about $1 million in sales revenue in 2003. ... ''It would seem to me that these sites could very well be subject to pranksters and they should be viewed with some caution,'' [said Joseph Daniel McCool, editor in chief of Executive Recruiter News]. When asked about the accuracy of the memos he receives, Kaplan said that he doesn't check the memos for accuracy. ''We get about 10 memos daily,'' said Kaplan, 28. ''It's like reality TV. People like to read and know what is really going on. You can read IBM's press releases all day long, but the memos tell the real story.''