Posted on April 27, 2017 5:04 pm by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | Internal | Media | PR
Beginning around 2011, content curation was a hot topic. There was no end of workshops and keynotes and blog posts and books. Today, you can talk about curation and hear a pin drop.
Curation is alive and well even if it seems quaint compared to Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, voice tech, and some of the other technologies that have pushed it…
Posted on March 31, 2017 3:09 pm by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Sharing and Collaborating | Content | Instagram | Advertising | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Ethics | Facebook | Internal | Marketing | Measurement | Media | Podcasting | Politics | PR | Publishing | Social Media | Trust | Twitter
Lots to catch up on after skipping last week’s Wrap due to travel. I’ll try to keep everything brief so I can cover a lot without going overboard on length. I extract items for the Wrap from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to my weekly email briefing.
Twitter removes @replies from…
Posted on February 7, 2017 9:20 am by Shel Holtz | Internal | Politics
What was it like on the Budweiser brewery floor the day after the Super Bowl?
Did Audi workers eye one with suspicion, wondering where they stood on the equal pay issue?
Corporate activism is on the rise. Consider just a few examples:
- Business coalitions are rising up in Southern states to oppose legislation that…
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.
Coming back…
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 December 23, 2016 4:36 pm by Shel Holtz | Internal
When staffers at the Internet Society took to their personal social media accounts to voice their support for the Society’s position on handing off oversight of the Internet’s domain name to ICANN, they weren’t pitching anything. The Society wasn’t selling anything, nor did it enroll employees in trying to help pitch anything. These were highly engaged employees who took it upon themselves to help…
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