Enterprise social media engages employees. I’ve mentioned that a time or two on this blog. But it also has the power to recognize and encourage those particularly special employees I call “emergent leaders.” Never heard of ‘em. What are emergent leaders? This term is not yet a common one, so...
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You can’t throw enterprise social tools at any company and expect them to stick. Certain critical pieces have to be in place in order for the technology and the tactics to boost employee engagement, recruit and retain employees, break down knowledge silos and more for a business. At the top...
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When you signed up for your first Facebook account back in the early 2000s, you were probably curious. You wanted to learn more about this new “social media” platform and see if it might be fun and useful to you. After a few weeks, you were hooked. Facebook made reconnecting...
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Last week, I covered three fundamental ways enterprise social media is valuable to adopters at every level of your company. To round out the topic, I’m sharing three more. Winning over stakeholders and decision makers is impossible if you aren’t speaking their language. Tapping into what your audience will get...
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As an ESM advocate, you may find yourself singing the praises of internal social media strategies for a number of audiences who are tentative about this “new” way of communicating, sharing information and working. It’s difficult to be heard if you aren’t speaking to your listener’s values. What these different...
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As an honorary director of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum, I am fortunate to be able to attend IBF’s members-only meetings and am often asked, “what actually happens at these meetings?” Below is my post from their most recent meeting. In a word, these meetings are communication, collaboration and intranet-nerd nirvana....
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