Letting Go – Embracing Imperfection
This post originally appears on Allison Maguire’s LinkedIn. Have you ever written an email that was received by someone in a way you did not intend? I’d wager that scenario only had to play out a couple of times before you modified your behavior, reading and re-reading your messaging to ensure it conveyed the message you […]
Don’t Let Your Inbox Rule Your Vacation
We’ve all dreaded an inbox of emails after a long vacation—or even just the weekend. Today, with enterprise social networks gaining adoption in small businesses and large corporations, it’s likely some of these emails are notifications from your enterprise social network, such as Yammer or Chatter. So, how do you make your enterprise social network best […]
Back To The Basics: The Intranet Is Not Dead
“Anyone that says intranets are dead, or can be replaced by enterprise social network alternatives, is ignoring the basic needs that an intranet fulfills…all of which our study showed were important to employees.” –Andy Jankowski Did we statistically prove the case for a social intranet? YES! As a guest speaker at the IABC World Conference in San […]
Teeing Off: The Front Nine of Internal Communication
The Course of Corporate Internal Communication Picture a large corporation. A corporation doesn’t like the game of golf. Sure- their associates, executives, and clients probably golf, but the corporation itself prefers their activity– the pursuit of progress and success– to move at the same pace I like my sports: momentum at a swift, more […]
Driving Yammer Adoption, One Business Team At A Time
This post originally appears on Microsoft Office Blogs. When I first read Gartner’s prediction that,” Through 2015, 80 percent of social business efforts will fail to achieve the intended benefits due to an overemphasis on technology and inadequate leadership involvement*,” I laughed and then, I cried. For the last five years, my company, Enterprise Strategies […]
Making Your (Digital) Mark Inside Your Company
People constantly want to know how to get ahead in their careers–how to earn more than the next person, how to advance to a key management role, how to get in front of a dream client or account. Too often, people incorrectly use social tools externally or internally to try and stay on top. Tony […]
Gamification: It’s Elementary
When I look back at my elementary school days, one thing gives me immediate anxiety: math board races. For third graders, it only takes a few runs through a multiplication table for teachers to notice disengagement. Much to the chagrin of my passive self, teachers would often give the hardworking class a “treat” of having […]
The Missing Part Of Your Enterprise Social Network: Executive Support
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy C-Suite executives can put their stamp of approval on the implementation of enterprise social networks. They can praise the importance of usage and collaborative knowledge sharing in their monthly departmental meetings. They can even set a required amount of posts and shares. However, […]
Are Yammer, Chatter and others in Trouble?
It is no secret that I am huge proponent of, and believer in the power of, Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs). Being the Founder of a company that helps organizations implement and drive usage of various types of ESNs (e.g., Yammer, Chatter, etc.), I am also very careful to be technology neutral. We have to be […]
Why Enterprise Social Network Pilots Don’t Take Flight
What is the initial thought any leader or core team has when discussing the possibilities of an enterprise social network? “Let’s do a pilot first.” Several arguments can be made in support of doing pilots inside organizations: offering colleagues a chance to experiment with features and functionality observing how tools can be adapted into current workflows evaluating overall performance to determine if […]