Posted on June 23, 2011 4:01 pm by Shel Holtz | Internal | Social Media
Employees talking about their companies within their social graphs is a source of considerable consternation among business leaders. What if make an inaccurate claim? Say something contrary to our official position? Misrepresent a product? Violate a regulation?
Make no mistake: People are being asked about their employers within their social communities, whether that’s Facebook, LinkedIn or some niche network. One company where I…
Posted on June 3, 2011 11:00 am by Shel Holtz | Internal | Social Media
One of the things companies have a hard time getting right is employee recognition. The business landscape is littered with examples of disingenuous recognition programs. I especially liked this one, which David Spark noted in a post on condescending morale boosting efforts:
In an attempt to get people to work overtime, yet not feel like they’re being taken advantage of, Publicis instituted…
Posted on May 20, 2011 4:03 am by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | Internal
Content curation is the source of a lot of buzz these days, with nearly all the conversation focused on ways to become a trusted guide to useful content about targeted topics. There’s an equally interesting role for content curation as an internal communications activity. Here are five curation approaches that can help employees.
Company positions and statementsMost organizations’s official statements and positions on issues…
Posted on March 9, 2011 4:38 am by Shel Holtz | Internal
Last July, I wrote about several organizations that adopted innovative approaches to internal conferences designed to actively engage participants. Having attended more than my share of conferences that featured lecturer after lecturer, with employee-attendees sitting still and taking notes, then going back to the office where they’d have no context for applying what they heard (or what they were able to…
Posted on March 2, 2011 5:38 am by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | Internal
After not too long a wait since submitting my request, I got an invitation to set up a Storify account. Storify bills itself as “a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos.” It is, in fact, a content curation tool. You set up a story on any theme you like, then find just about any kind of…
Posted on February 28, 2011 6:54 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal
One of the problems with research studies is the tendency of some leaders to see the headline and skip the actual study, especially when the sound bite version of the study’s conclusion supports the leader’s views.
So it was with dismay that I read about a study conducted by the University of Nottingham’s School of Economics. The sound bite to which a lot of leaders…
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