New Research on Intranet Video Communication
Many thanks to my friends at the Intranet Benchmarking Forum for sponsoring this research – and congratulations on your 10 year anniversary today! Press Release: June 13, 2012, New York, NY As the amount of information and number of channels in our organizations proliferate, internal communicators face an ever-increasing challenge getting effective messages to organizationally and geographically dispersed […]
Could Video Messages Kill the Internal Memo?
Memos … they are synonymous with business as much as the cubicle and rush-hour commute. Let’s be honest—they can be extremely boring and most employees completely ignore them. (If anyone offers Cliff Notes services for corporate memos, let us know.) Internal communication … does not have to involve long, tedious documents that employees dread reading […]
Why Video is Integral to Internal Communication
Why would companies want to add video, yet another form of internal communication, to the mix? To keep the frantic pace of social business, employees already juggle all types of communication – e-mails, text messages, online chats, and phone calls, not to mention face-to-face meetings. It’s quite simple. Video offers a compelling visual connection that […]
4 Tips for Great Content Curation (a.k.a. Being Ken Burns)
The role of the corporate communicator has not changed. It is still his or her job to provide employees with information that supports their work and their company. How corporate communicators carry out this role has changed drastically. When it all shakes out, the options of creation and curation emerge. Here is a look at […]
Intranet Managers: Your Company’s Culture Setters and Change Agents
Intranet managers have the unique ability of touching the lives, hearts and minds of every employee in our organizations. Yet, all too often, their power and potential as culture setters and change agents goes unrecognized. The following is a snippet from one of my speaking engagements on the perceived versus actual value of intranet managers. […]
The Evolving Roll of Video to Internally Communicate
Historically, video has been carried out by full-time, dedicated teams within large companies. Only CEOs and other executives were deemed worthy of this formal, structured limelight, often delivering uninspired interviews or announcements about organizational changes. Better videos might have featured historic moments in company history or highlights from an event, but even these weren’t really […]
How Enterprise Social Media is Valuable to Your Company Part 1
As an Enterprise Social Media advocate, you may find yourself singing the praises of internal social media strategies for a number of audiences who are tentative about this “new” way of communicating, sharing information and working. Communicating with a mobile workforce is absolutely key for managing employees whilst out and about which is why the […]
White Paper: Social Intranets & Employee Engagement
Staff morale is closely linked with company productivity and performance, yet HR and Corporate Communications managers often have limited tools to impact morale. This free white paper explains how a social intranet can offer a lasting, meaningful improvement in employee engagement. Download a free copy of the white paper: Social Intranets & Employee Engagement Our sincere thanks to Ephraim Freed and […]