“Social is more than a trend, it is a revolution that is changing the way we work and collaborate," Chatter Product Marketing Director Dave King told me recently. I admit. I wasn't necessarily sold on the idea. The business case for replicating popular social networking functionality...
Friending. Tweeting. Now, Pinning? It is hard to ignore Pinterest, growing at a record-setting pace to become the third most visited social site in the world this year and valued at over $7 billion. Individuals can share recipes and marketers can promote products on Pinterest,...
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...
Something that you need to optimize from your employees is Time and attendance. Without your employee's engagement then work just won't be done and your business will suffer. If you doubt the value of employee engagement, it’s not hard to become a believer. On Elizabeth...
[Update: Making this post a game!] Post a comment with one potential use of gamification at your company. Top 3 ideas (those getting the most likes) will be featured in a follow up post - clearly a fast track to extreme fame and fortune -...
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...
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...
Employee engagement is more than a buzzword in human resources departments. As a growing body of evidence shows, and the folks at Gallup put so well, “engaged employees are more productive. They are more profitable, more customer-focused, safer, and more likely to withstand temptations to...
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...
As an Enterprise Social Media 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. Communicating with a mobile workforce is absolutely key for...