Assignment 8: Listening assignment B.

1. What is remarkable about the comments and the bloggers of the Federal Reserve Bank? they are aloud to comment and make blogs anonymous.

2. The Federal Reserve Bank opened a blog to create “buzz”. What is meant by this, in other words, what was the purpose of opening a blog? To have more people regularly checking there news.

3. What was the female recruiting manager’s blog mainly about? It was mainly about a woman who was being a mother and full time manager. Further she was there for people who needed her like friends.

4. What was the purpose of her blog? to recrute people for FED.

5. Which words show that the FED does exercise a form of control on the blogs? controversy and discussion. 

6. By what kind of people were the very first FED blogs written? senior management and staff around a bank.

7. Have the blogs changed the way that people who work for the FED think about internal communications ? yes the way that people who work for the FED think about internal communications have changed because of the blogs because it's anonymous and everybody can say what they think about something without consequences.

8. What is the latest development in the company as far as media are concerned? ???????

9. Catherine Cummings says that this medium to communicate with staff is better than an older medium. Which more old-fashioned way of communicating with staff does she mention? E-mail and telephone.

10. What is the next big thing in social media at the FED? There are two sites that they are redesigning.