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Social HR, Self Service Style [INFOGRAPHIC]
One of the most important steps to putting social HR in its place is to take a look at the employee lifecycle and determining your best opportunities for integration within an HR portal. Doing so drives self-service, relevancy to...
Making Social Recognition S.M.A.R.T in 2013
My friends at TemboSocial sent me their most recent infographic on social recognition and it prompted me to take a few minutes to dive a little deeper into their recent whitepaper on why social recognition matters. Below are some highlights from...
The Best of 2012′s Social Media White Papers
Are you addicted to white papers, just as I am? Well, my friends at Awareness, Inc. have put together an epic list of the top 10 social media whitepapers of 2012. Enjoy the white paper goodness. And try to tweet every once in a while so...
The Game of Employee Engagement Includes Enablement [Infographic]
Source: 3 cost-effective ways to boost employee engagement, from the March 2012 issue of CeridianVoice. With 71 percent of employees “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” at the end of 2011, according to Gallup, most companies can only dream of a...
No More Silos....Just Social Business
From: Holistic Social Relationships, Breaking Down Social Media Silos and Enabling a Coordinated Brand Voice, Astute SolutionsA holistic approach to social listening and engagement can transform your business into a social...
The Importance of Being Known
I admire people who are able to easily separate their work and personal lives. Many people are able to go to work and then go home without mixing the two. I am not one of them. As a professional, as a blogger and as a mother, my work and personal...
What Does Your Employer Branding Fishbowl Look Like?
Every company has two distinct brands, its employer brand and its consumer brand. With the rise of social networking, your company, how you run it and your culture has become a fishbowl — everything you do is on display for all to see. And...
Why the Super Bowl’s Social Media Command Center Scores a Winning Touchdown
An exclusive, in-depth look into the Super Bowl’s first ever social media command center, the folks who ran it, and how the convergence of technology and people created the ultimate online Super Bowl experience. Me with Taulbee Jackson, CEO of...
Engaged Employees Love Their Work, But Love Their Lives Even More
It’s been a loooonnng day…I've spent 9+ hours working on the computer for my work job and here it is.. nearing 1AM and I'm still on the computer but now writing a blog post. My eyes are going cross-eyed and my finger tips are raw from tap-tap-...
The State of Social Media Marketing
Top Areas For Social Marketing Investment and Biggest Social Marketing Challenges in 2012 From Awareness, Inc Creators of the Social Marketing Hub The definitive social marketing industry report. In December 2011 Awareness surveyed over 320...
The Ethos of the Internet and a Culture of Innovation
Source: In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our PantsThe Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it’s a philosophy that has begun to...
A Social Workplace Starts with Culture and Engagement
Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure of appearing on Digital 411, an internet technology radio show. During the show, I discussed the impact that social technologies can have on HR transformation and employee engagement. There was so much...
Is a Social Intranet Your Company’s Holy Grail or Holy Mess?
If there is one thing that became pointedly clear during my attending and speaking at the J. Boye Intranet conference last week, it's that we are all experiencing different aspects of what it means to become a world-class corporate (social)...
Knowledge Management: Creating a Social Intranet Where Employees Can Learn
This is Part II in the "Learn, Plan and Do" series that explores the use of social technologies to take your intranet to the next level, to create a social intranet. But hopefully you will find that it goes even further.. to not only...
Creating a Social Intranet where Employees can Learn, Plan and Do
This post is the introduction to a new three part "Learn, Plan and Do" series that explores the use of social technologies to take your intranet to the next level, to create a social intranet. But hopefully you will find that it goes even further.....
Will the Real You Please Stand Up?
An exploration of authenticity in social media and in real life.In one of my recent social media gatherings, a group of us reflected on what it's like to eventually meet each other in person. Someone mentioned that they find it interesting when they...
Extensive List of over 40 e2.0 Micro-Blogging Case Studies and Resources
Micro-blogging is the social media buzzword that gets some serious mojo going for those of you passionate about social networking for the enterprise (myself included). There are a plethora of tools available, and if you want a quick snapshot,...
Extensive List of over 30 Enterprise 2.0 Case Studies and Reports
This list is referenced in my post: A Socially Networked Company Makes for a More Human Workforce (via The Social Workplace)It’s only natural that everyone wants to know what everyone else is doing. Building an effective enterprise social...
A Socially Networked Company Makes for a More Human Workforce
I love how social media has made our world just a little smaller -- bringing people together across the globe who might not have met otherwise. For business, one of the biggest and most under-realized advantages to integrating social...
Listen Up, Location-based Services... Chicks are Influencers Too!
If you haven't seen the flurry of conversations the past two days, let me be the one to tell you that Forrester has just released a very insightful report on the use of Location-based Services (LBS). Specifically, the use of applications such...
