What’s your Internal Communication Measurement Mantra? - aniisu
If you followed the recently concluded cricket World Cup 2011 tournament which India won the statistics shared on TV may have overwhelmed you. The amount of data crunching that cricket historians did...
View ArticleWhat is your Social Communications Transitional Strategy? - David Christopher
I was recently contacted by the managing director of a large enterprise asking for advice on what was the most effective way to communicate to his employees. This was pleasing on two fronts:He was...
View ArticleStop Sucking and Start Engaging with Your Customers | Intranet Connections Blog
Last week, I had the privilege of attending the Inbound Marketing Summit in San Francisco. It was a fabulous conference with enlightening speeches from influential marketing professionals. One of the...
View ArticleWICly intranet newsletter #2
WICly News #2 Intranet news for the week: 2nd September, 2011 The second WICly news is now out! Highlights of this edition include: Find out which WIC group member claimed the prestigious 'Contributor...
View ArticleGood writing, for everyone else - Jim Ylisela
Communication consultants are quite fond of making profound, worldly statements like this one: “Communication is everyone’s responsibility.” Come to think of it, I’ve said that myself on more than a...
View ArticleEmployee Engagement Through Appreciative Inquiry - Dina Medina
A while back, I was looking over the written comments from the annual employee survey for an organization I was supporting. The comments were stinging. They reflected an ethos mired in pessimism,...
View ArticleTalking and Listening to Your Employees Is Critical - Steve Cohen
It sounds obvious, even elementary, but two-way communication is not happening too much in many of today’s businesses and organizations. In a recent USA Today survey, only about 31 percent of employees...
View ArticleDesigning the digital workplace of the future - @oscarberg
Companies will only be able to respond to the challenges they are facing in an increasingly global, competitive, rapidly changing and interconnected business environment if they empower their knowledge...
View ArticleAre you capturing employee stories and turning them into content? - Listen to...
I was interviewing the CEO of a Silicon Valley company as part of an internal communications audit. “How does knowledge move most effectively through your organization?” I asked. He pondered the...
View ArticleNow Playing on the Intranet: Video for Internal Communications
Internal communications professionals are always looking for ways to get time-strapped employees to pay attention to company news. Today, enterprise social media tools have turned internal...
View ArticleEnable commenting on intranet news - James Robertson
Two major trends are affecting how intranets are used to communicate to, and connect with, staff. The first is the move by internal communications teams away from just top-down corporate communications...
View ArticleYou shape your intranet. Thereafter, it shapes you. - Sharon O'Dea
In his book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Marshall McLuhan said “we shape our tools. Thereafter, they shape us”. McLuhan’s focus was language; he argued that language doesn’t describe...
View ArticleWhat does your Intranet do for you? - digitalworkplace
We always refer to users being at the center of Intranets and Intranet managers prime focus being to answer user and business needs. Two recent quotes re-emphasize this and provide great analogies...
View ArticleKommunikation ist wertvoll
Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, jemals Buntstifte für mich gekauft zu haben. Vermutlich habe ich das auch nie, weil meine Eltern das damals übernommen haben. Aber diesmal hatte ich einen guten Grund, mir...
View ArticleIntranet news needs good headlines too - Mich-communication
There are a gazillion articles out there about how to write great online headlines but they tend to fixate on company internets and blogging and how to attract readers through SEO. What about the...
View ArticleIntranet Executive Blogs - Intranetizen
Executive blogs have the potential to be a genuinely powerful communication vehicle, but in our experience from countless intranets, they seem to frequently miss the mark. Here are a few observations...
View Article8 ways to get employees to comment on the CEO's blog
Whenever I talk about leaders' blogs on intranets, the same issue inevitably arises. It goes like this: "My CEO/president/senior executive is blogging on the intranet, but employees won't leave any...
View ArticleSocial media behind the firewall powers Intranet 2.0
Most companies think publicity when they think social media. Usually their thoughts go straight to Facebook or Twitter, and the focus is on external audiences. Which begs the question, why ignore those...
View ArticleHumanizing companies: when technology facilitates recognition and praise
M. has worked for the same company for circa 4 decades! A lifetime devoted to one organization, witnessing its ups and downs, watching its history unfold as turbulently as that of her country. For her...
View ArticleWill 2012 be the end of email? - Sharon O'Dea
2012 begins with a slew of predictions that this year will see the back of email. Back in November, multibillionaire foetus Mark Zuckerberg declared “email is dead”. It must be true, I read it on...
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