Posted on May 25, 2016 1:29 pm by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Internal | Technology
“I have some senior managers questioning the need to retain dedicated internal communications specialists. Why not just get others in the Marketing team to chip in to support, they suggest.”
That was the message I got from a corporate communications manager in mid-May. It wasn’t the first time I have heard this sentiment. Or the second. Not even the third. The fact is, the…
Posted on May 24, 2016 9:23 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Internal
Conventional wisdom has led companies to spend countless billions of dollars in an effort to turn supervisors into communicators.
The conventional wisdom is that the relationship between employees and their supervisors is the key to engagement. Bolstering the argument that the relationship is vital is research from Gallup—the organization that, for all practical purposes, invented the concept of employee engagement—that found about half of…
Posted on May 20, 2016 8:10 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | The Workplace Experience | Content | Visual Communication | Books | Brands | Business | Ethics | Facebook | Intranets | Media | Mobile | PR | QR Codes | Social Media | Twitter
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. As always, I collect material from which I select Wrap stories (as well as stories…
Posted on May 2, 2016 2:34 pm by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | The Workplace Experience | Content | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | For Immediate Release | Media | PR | Video | Writing and Editing
This is cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network.
Special thanks to FIR tech correspondent Dan York for stepping in last week to handle hosting chores while Shel was present for the birth of a granddaughter! Shel is back this week with panelists Philippe Borremans, currently director of strategy for PR Media, an H+K Strategies Affiliate, based in Casablanca, Morocco; David Spark,…
Posted on April 22, 2016 5:11 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | The Workplace Experience | Content | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Marketing | Media | PR | Social Media | Transparency | Trust | Video
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. As always, I collect material from which I select Wrap stories (as well as stories…
Posted on April 11, 2016 6:13 pm by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Brands | Business | For Immediate Release | Internal | Intranets | Media | Mobile | PR | Video
This is cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network.
Today’s panel includes internal communications consultant and speaker Steve Crescenzo; ROI Communications CEO Barbara Fagan-Smith; and Frost Bank’s Vice President of Employee Communications, Culture, and People Development, Sheri Rosen.
Our topics included…
- For the first time, Edelman has issued a report that dissects data from the Trust Barometer to find out how much employees trust their…
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