I’ve had a lot of interesting discussions lately around employee collaboration and one of the topics I’ve been having conversations around is employee engagement. Now before I go into more detail I want to stress that engagement in this case doesn’t refer to activity on
There are a lot of great and valuable resources that talk about why collaboration is important (customer, partner, and employee) and why it’s valuable to organizations. While these conversations are still important to have I think we’ve reached a time when we need to start
I think at this point it’s safe to say that I’ve worked with, researched, and communicated with hundreds of companies around how they are leveraging emergent tools and strategies to impact their business. A few weeks ago I asked if we need a chief collaboration officer which
Chess Media Group has teamed up with Avectra to bring a series of educational resources around Social CRM for associations. We’re really excited to be working with Avectra on this because associations are the original social networking communities; tightly knit groups formed to carry on
Gartner has an interesting graphic they created which I stumbled upon after reading a CMSWire article. The image helps explain the email paradox which is email is not the best method for information sharing and distribution yet it’s not going to go away. The image compares email
This week I’m at the CITE (Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise) conference in San Francisco where I’ve been able to have some interesting conversations with collaboration and IT leaders at various organizations around the world. I always learn something new from these events and
UPDATED 4/20/12 Every Friday, I’ll be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes aspects from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. If you are vendor and would like to participate, please contact
Many of the examples and case studies we are seeing today around emergent collaboration involve companies with thousands of employees around the world. But, this doesn’t mean emergent collaboration tools and strategies are only for the enterprise. In fact, nothing could be father from the
It’s no secret that I’m an advocate for the voice of the employee and for the necessity of emergent collaboration in the workplace. I don’t like it when my friends or acquaintances (or anyone else for that matter) tell me that they don’t like their
UPDATED 2/24 Every Friday, I’ll be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes aspects from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. If you are vendor and would like to participate, please contact
