Category: Employee Communication

  • Shaking the trees at Microsoft

    Much talk in the past 24 hours over another key employee leaving Microsoft and going to Google. While most focus is on that, I found this commentary on Mini-Microsoft of more interest, discussing the broader effects in the Microsoft organization…

  • Microsoft’s opportunity post-Scoble

    Some of the blogosphere commentary following Robert Scoble’s news that he is leaving Microsoft to join Podtech in July is on who will be the next Scoble at Microsoft. If such a question refers to someone taking on the same…

  • Building the business case for podcasting

    Eric Schwartzman has posted an excellent commentary of his address at the Syndicate conference in New York on how to build the business case for podcasting. It’s a topic I’m increasingly being asked about, too, in conversations and discussions with organizations in…

  • New intranet report includes social media

    Melcrum Publishing has just published a research report entitled ‘Transforming Your Intranet.’ I got an email about it yesterday and my first thought was: yet another expensive report about intranets with the same old late-90s view about them and the…

  • Social media drives greater employee engagement

    Here’s a terrific case study from Swedish/US communication consultants and training firm Gronstedt Group on the role social media plays in helping the sales team at US educational publisher Prentice-Hall improve their sales performance. The case study describes how the firm…