Employee Engagement = Social Engagement...
Polemic number one for 2010. There can be no employee engagement without social engagement. Or put in other words, internal communications cannot continue to successfully engage employees in a modern organisation over a certain size without social media inside the firewall.
Why so? The basic element is...
PushmePullYou Comms...
And following on from my post on Google’s potential internal comms engine, the question here is push and pull. Users, those consuming information want to have information pushed at them (broadcast) and pulled by them, (selected and chosen). Those sending information want to broadcast, to propagate...
Twitter Internal Comms Top 10: NEW!!?...
This blog has been a tad quite of late as I’ve been busy building social networks out of raw slabs of php (well OK, out of Elgg and WordPress Multi User + BuddyPress), but it’s now time to kick-start it back into action. And what better way that to relaunch the Twitter Internal Comms Top 10 the...
What's at play in internal communic...
A couple of weeks or so ago I set up one of those polls in LinkedIn asking what the single most important aim of internal comms was. The chart of the results so far is thus:
The discussion continued on LinkedIn, with a lively engagement on what the most importan aspect might be. Now of course, this is...
What's the aim of Internal Communic...
Over at LinkedIn I recently created one of their polls to elicit some information about what really drives Internal Communications. The LinkedIn poll widget allows one to solicit 5 possible answers to a question. So throwing caution to the gales I asked “What’s the single most important aim of...
Prince2 training and Internal Communicat...
A quiet week on the blog front as on a Prince2 (a UK project management system, similar to the US’s PMP) course all this week with Parity training at Moorgate. Lots of homework to do and there’s so much to cram in. Learning about Project Initiation Documents (PID) and Dr.Qil – Daily, Risk,...
How Microsoft uses surface video to win ...
Using internal comms video to empower and inform a highly mobile and technically savvy workforce is one of the things I’ve spent a lot of career years on, so it was with keen eyes that I watched a Microsoft video on how they’re doing it with cutting-edge surface table technology. The results look...
Scaling the Enterprise Social Network Py...
Over at Bertrand Dupperin’s Notepad blog there’s a great article on Enterprise Social Networks, Social networks are the quintessence of enterprise web 2.0. Bertrand looks at how the active users has to manage and interpret the information flows amd how social media tools join up as a final...
12 tips for a successful internal comms ...
In a previous role I was lucky enough to manage an Internal Comms video channel aimed at our field sales force. The channel’s aim was to deliver short video messages that were business-aligned, relevant, timely and targeted. Topics covered in these videocasts included sales updates, product launches,...
Harnessing 'Enterprise Social Netwo...
Facebook for the Fortune 500
Following on from my post on what we should call social media inside the firewall “What should we call ‘Intranet Social Media’?“ My peers (and Twitter pals) from various enterprises in Europe and the Americas have suggested the following: Collaborative Media,...
