Category: Workplace

  • Defining employee engagement

    Does anyone agree what employee engagement is? asks David Ferrabee. It’s a very good question. ‘Employee engagement’ is a phrase that appears frequently in media articles and blogs, yet it seems to me that people tend to use the phrase…

  • The silence of the Blackberry

    The Blackberry outage that left North American users of the ubiquitous wireless handheld email device in the dark for much of Wednesday didn’t prevent plenty of people communicating. Communicating about the loss of service, that is, via blog posts, Twitter,…

  • Content tagging and sharing now really delicious

    I’m probably a typical web user. Whenever I see a website page or a blog post that has something interesting, I’ll bookmark it in Firefox (or add it to favorites in Internet Explorer). That’s the traditional way of keeping track…

  • From the ‘would it were true’ department

    An April Fool’s Day joke, but imagine if it were true – “Internal Communicator” is world’s most-desired job, survey finds Internal comms beats rock star and footballer to top spot. According to a new study released today by research company,…

  • Software personality disorders

    I had a big chuckle reading “Is your app an ass-kisser,” in which Kathy Sierra asks: If your app was an employee, what kind of employee would it be? When it’s employee performance review time, how would you rate it?…