Posted on January 26, 2017 4:23 pm by Shel Holtz | Employee Engagement | The Workplace Experience | Internal | Mobile | Research
A lot of employee advocacy programs rely on apps that deliver content for employees to share. It’s a reasonable premise: These apps make it easy for employee ambassadors to find and share content they think their online communities will find interesting.
There’s a problem with this premise, however. If the app itself isn’t engaging, employees won’t make a habit of opening it.
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Posted on January 24, 2017 9:22 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Internal | Trust
Employee engagement—that state when employees are motivated and able to give their best every day, committed to their employer’s goals and values—is woefully misunderstood. In response to low engagement scores, companies have invested millions of dollars in programs that may improve job satisfaction but have nothing to do with engagement. In some organizations, employees respond positively to engagement surveys even if they’re not…
Posted on January 13, 2017 3:42 am by Shel Holtz | Employee Engagement | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Management | The Workplace Experience | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Wearables | Books | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Marketing | Measurement | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Research | Social Media | Transparency | Trust | Twitter | Video
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AlertsEmployee engagement webinar—January 26, I’ll share 10 innovative and unexpected tactics communicators can employ immediately to build engagement. I’ll also talk about how engagement fits in a broader employee communication strategy designed to deliver bottom-line…
Posted on December 2, 2016 1:46 pm by Shel Holtz | Employee Engagement | Chatbots | The Workplace Experience | Content | Instagram | Advertising | Audio | Brands | Business | Channels | Crisis Communication | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Location-based Services | Marketing | Measurement | Media | Mobile | Politics | PR | SNCR | Social Media | Social networks | Trust | Twitter
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AlertsWriting for Mobile—As part of a client project, I have been researching the living daylights out of best practices, empirical studies, and real-world experiences when it comes to writing for mobile devices (mainly…
Posted on November 30, 2016 4:19 pm by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Brands | Crisis Communication | Social Media | Social networks
Trolls are not a new problem, but their impact has soared in recent months. Much of the increase in troll activity corresponds to the normalization of the alt-right (aka racist/nationalist) movement that paralleled Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Reddit is feeling the heat. The collaborative news site heralded as “the front page of the Internet” and a bastion of “authentic conversations” has been overrun by nationalist…
Posted on October 7, 2016 2:12 pm by Shel Holtz | Employee Engagement | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | The Workplace Experience | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Audio | Brands | Business | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Social Media | Twitter | Video
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NewsFacebook wants to provide free Internet access—Facebook’s Free Basics app has already been deployed in some third-world regions—and killed off in India after being subjected to regulatory scrutiny. But the company is looking to roll it…
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