Category: Employee Communication

  • Call to action to stop blocking

    Two years ago, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz started a campaign called Stop Blocking as a means of drawing attention to a practice by some organizations to prevent access by employees to wide swathes of content on websites, blogs and…

  • Twitter’s value in the workplace

    FT columnist Lucy Kellaway had an amusing-to-read story recently about business executives using Twitter and asks whether those Twittering executives reveal too much. […] I think [Twitter] is potentially the best communication tool there is; the trouble is that most…

  • The risk of reputation destruction

    It’s a bit of a macabre topic, one that wouldn’t readily spring to your mind: the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, which came into effect in the UK a year ago, aims to ensure organizations are held to account…

  • Two practical lessons about Twitter

    There’s a literal boat-load of activity going on where Twitter is the common factor. One example: I posted earlier about Twitter hashtag overload. Time now for something a lot more positive. I’ve picked two things that are well worth giving…

  • Survey highlights employee expectations from social networking in the European workplace

    A new survey on social networking in the workplace, released today by AT&T, shows strong evidence that enabling employees to use social networking tools as part of everyday working life leads to an increase in employee efficiency. “Enterprise 2.0,” a…