Social Comms

ESNs, etc.

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Millennials! Generation K is coming! Whatevs, I can’t even.

Communications, Rants, Social Comms

People are not ‘distracted from relationships by their phones’ – they are developing relationships through space and time using technology that suits them. Stop telling people to get off their phones when at the same time you expect 100% availability coz ‘flexible working in the digital workplace’.

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Making the business case for an ESN — Virpi Oinonen at IntraTeam Event Copenhagen

Social Comms

Virpi Oinonen @Virpi is famous for her business cartoons and is an enterprise social network evangelist and consultant.

Virpi has two up-coming ESN workshops, one in Dublin, and one in Birmingham UK.

Employee engagement is a side effect of good use of an enterprise social network. The priority is to have a purpose for your ESN, it should help the organisation achieve objectives and solve problems.

We need to find out what hurts, and see if social communication can help.

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Luis Suarez at IntraTeam Event Copenhagen 2016 – Wirearchy

Social Comms

This is a live blog. I’m at the IntraTeam conference and this is one of the first sessions.


Luis Suarez – @elsua elsua.net Previously of IBM, as you know, now independent.

Has been without email for eight years.

Leadership in a connected enterprise, from hierarchy to wirearchy

Nothing new – wirearchy has been around for 17 years, says Luis.

Destroy the idea that ‘knowledge is power’.

‘Knowledge sharing is power’.

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Twitter is dying

Social Comms

No it isn’t. Slowing growth isn’t the same as dying.

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What I advise my clients about social media

Communications, Social Comms

My always-up-to-date guide to social media marketing, mostly focused on B2B, rather than to consumers.

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Simply SMiLE table expert sessions

Social Comms

The London ‘Social Media in the Large Enterprise’ conference will be held again on the 25th of September. Part of the agenda is all about networking and discussion. Here are the subjects.

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Get 33% off SMiLE conference

Communications, Social Comms

Get a third off the ticket price for the Social Media in the Large Enterprise conference in late September.

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Internal social comms conference to SMILE about

Intranet, Raves, Social Comms

I’ve got my own table at September’s social media conference, but don’t let that put you off – check the topics and see who else you can talk with.

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How to measure the success of enterprise social networks

Social Comms

We heard a good deal about ESNs (Enterprise Social Networks) at the Simply SMILE conference; some of us talked about how best to monitor and measure success.

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Stop viewing your intranet as a single channel

Communications, Intranet, Social Comms

The intranet isn’t an amorphous channel, it’s a city of sectors, communities, highways and byways. We should diversify our comms and stop simply publishing a single news story.

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Table-talk lessons from the IABC UK’s ‘Gift of Comms’

Charitable Musings, Communications, Popular, Raves, Social Comms

The ‘Gift of Comms’ was the IABC UK’s first charity focused comms event. Read the succinct lessons I learnt.

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Trust and social media

Popular, Social Comms

Social media is a huge timewaster in the workplace? Not according to Kevan Hall of Global Integration (specialists in workplace efficiency for complex organisations).

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The future is not social…

Popular, Rants, Social Comms

Taking a stand against the thoughtless assumption that everyone and every business needs to be digitally social, Jenni Wheller has some counterpoints to consider.

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Twitterverse

Raves, Social Comms

Brian and Jess have released a galaxy sized poster of the ever-expanding Twitterverse. Take more than one small step within…

Jakob says social media has hit the intranet

Design, Intranet, Minutiae, Social Comms

You might guess from my previous intranet posts that I’m reflecting on the use of social media behind the firewall, within the intranet. Jakob Nielsen’s latest report comes a good time for me then, and there’s plenty for all of us to read and ruminate on.

While the focus of social media and Web 2.0 stuff might be wikis, blog comments, Twitter and social profiles, Jakob reminds us that getting stuff done isn’t about installing the latest tools on our infrastructure:

…organizations are successful with social media and collaboration technologies only when the tools are designed to solve an identified business need.
Jakob Nielsen

It all comes back to what problem are you trying to solve? What process would you like to improve?

If, like me, you’re a Twitter addict then all solutions seem to revolve around micro-blogging and status updates. When all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail… So Jakob reminds us that we must have a business need before we embark on a project to socialise the company, and I might remind myself that until I know what we want to achieve, I can’t go shopping for tools.

I very much suggest you read Jakob’s single web page and explore the links:

  • Social Networking on Intranets

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How do I justify the cost of Yammer to my boss?

Communications, Raves, Social Comms

I love Twitter, so I’m bound to like Yammer, which is like a private Twitter service used by companies. But people are terrified of Social Media and there is a financial cost to Yammer, so…

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