Holtz Communications + Technology

Whenever I raise the issue of leader blogs on intranets, the same issue inevitably arises, as it did during a workshop I conducted a week or so ago on social intranets and again at an intranet conference in New York earlier this week. It goes like this:

My CEO/president/senior executive is blogging on the intranet but employees aren’t leaving any comments. He/she…

During a recent talk on content curation, I showed a page from American Electric Power’s intranet that included news about the company from external sources. Several in the audience wondered how the communicators at AEP curated that content, so I asked Internal Communications Director William Amurgis for a quick rundown. Instead, he replied with an email that was good enough to be a…

I’m speaking later this month at the Social Intranet Summit—keynoting it, in fact—and I’m thrilled to be able to ofer a discount code so you can get in for a lower price.

Register using the promo code SISVSHEL and you’ll get a 20% discount. The price is $599, but it’ll cost you about $120 less than that.

That’s a great deal to hear the lineup of great speakers the folks…

One of the senior leaders at an office where I once worked ordered solitaire removed from the staff computers.

When I smoked, one of my smoking triggers was a long phone call. When it became clear, after five minutes or so, that this was wasn’t ending anytime soon, I automatically reached for my pack of smokes. I quit smoking twenty years ago,…

Cross-posted from Stop Blocking.

There are great companies, and there are all the rest.

The great companies are places where people want to work, and hence make the list of the top 100 companies to work for. Great companies also tend to be forward-looking. At the Altimeter Group—the analyst firm founded by Groundswell co-author Charlene Li—“Advanced” companies are at far end of the spectrum of efforts to…

Shame on CBS Radio News.

On its June 23 6 p.m. (EDT) top-of-the-hour newscast, CBS reported on the results of a study that indicate Facebook and other social networking sites are costing companies lost worker productivity.

I dashed home to find the source of the report. What I found was a month-old study that focused on all manner of workplace distractions. In…