Posted on March 28, 2013 12:35 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal
A Wall Street Journal blog report published yesterday claims that, in just under half of organzations, the lowest performing employees are also the most engaged. The article, by Lauren Weber, prompted responses like this one from NBC’s Martha C. White: “These findings fly in the face of conventional wisdom that those who contribute more to their employer’s success are the most engaged with…
Posted on March 27, 2013 11:08 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal | Research
One of employee communications’ key goals is to ensure employees understand the company’s business strategy. At every level, employees should be able to align their work to the strategy and take greater personal responsibility for their own contributions to its success.
If a study of 20 companies from the University of Technology in Sydney is any indicator, it isn’t working. What’s worse, the results of the…
Posted on March 11, 2013 7:53 am by Shel Holtz | Facebook | Internal | Intranets | Social Media | Social networks
Marketers distressed over the declining number of brand page posts that appear in the news feeds of people who have liked their page have another option to expand their reach. It’s just not an option most of them have considered.
Changes made last year to Facebook’s EdgeRank algorithm led to a falloff in average reach. One study, by GroupM, found that brand pages…
Posted on March 8, 2013 9:03 am by Shel Holtz | Healthcare | Brands | Business | Internal | Marketing | Social Media | Social networks
This week’s wrap features some particularly intriguing items, all drawn from a wider selection I collect on my link blog at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com. That’s also where I find the stories I’ll cover on my podcast. I’d be honored if you’d give my co-host and me a listen at For Immediate Release.
Data scientists have…
Posted on March 7, 2013 8:08 am by Shel Holtz | Internal | Intranets
Yesterday’s Internal Communications Best Practices Summit—- held at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center—was jam-packed with great ideas from organizations like SAS, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Cintas, to name a few. I curated tweets and images from the summit using Storify so you can benefit from some of the best ideas speakers shared:
[View the story “Best Practices in Internal Communications…Posted on March 6, 2013 8:54 am by Shel Holtz | Internal
During my presentation yesterday on employee ambassador programs, several people asked if I was planning to address ambassador programs for internal purposes.
I wasn’t. Like most people, when I think of ambassador programs, I think of tapping into the population of engaged employees to turbocharge marketing, increase engagement with customers and bolster the company’s reputation.
In my hotel room last night, I searched for…
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