Social Business, Social Enterprise News, Analysis

Things certainly got heated during yesterday's Tweet Jam! So, what did our experts have to say about gamification and challenges surrounding employee engagement? Read part two of our Tweet Jam Recap to find out.

For this week’s mobile app of the week, we look at our final employee engagement app with the mobile version of the enterprise social network, Yammer.

If you attended yesterday's #SocBizChat about employee engagement, you know it was a lively event. There was much debate about what employee engagement is, what it entails, what makes it work, how to measure it and what can keep it from flourishing.

Windows 8 support has been included in a couple of updates for the Novell ZENworks Mobile Management (BYOD) and application virtualization suites.

The time is upon us! We're just a little under an hour away from this month's Google Hangout. We'll be talking about Social Engagement Standards -- how can businesses establish the value of social engagement? Is it even possible?

More than 90% of companies now have at least one staff member with “social media” as part of their job description. Nearly 60% have at least four employees who use social media professionally. Those takeaways in a new report on the State of Corporate Social Media, from the Useful Social Media group, give some idea of social media’s penetration into company culture. 

"Any company trying to compete … must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.” -- Jack Welch

Google has announced another small step forward with Google Analytics, this time with the redesign of its Social Reports that enables users to track conversations and activity that is developing around content on Google’s Social Data Hub Partners.

It's that time again -- we're just a little over an hour away from this month's Tweet Jam and it is promising once again to be a lively one. This month we will be talking Employee Engagement -- What is it? What are the tools and processes used to drive it? What are the challenges to creating an engaged workforce?

Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can view the full calendar here.)

Are you seeing the phrase "employee engagement" a lot lately? Boy, I am. Along with "collaboration technologies" and "internal communities," the focus of a large number of articles and monographs online appears to be how to enable the people in your company to feel more a part of the work they do and how to enable that. So why is it that many of these same colleagues read these same articles and come away ambivalent about the efforts?

Windows 8 was a bold move for Microsoft. And whether you are a regular Microsoft or iOS user, businesses looking to build a line of business mobile applications should consider Windows 8 a front runner, specifically if its touch application would augment what you want to do.

 It's no fun micromanaging people. We'd all like to think people can be responsible for their own duties. Working collaboratively in teams, however, has the potential of breaking down. This is where tools like LiquidPlanner come in, to help itemize and track critical workflow details for project teams.

How does technology impact employee engagement? We posed this question to Workshare Co-founder and CTO, Barry Hadfield to see what he'd have to say in light of some of its recent releases.

I was super happy to see my article from last week, on the crossover between UX and APIs, get such a good response (including tweets from Alan Cooper and Jared Spool). There were one or two tweets from people who were not fully familiar with the topic and wanted to learn and understand more about the space. Ask and you shall receive. Each article listed below is a bit different and will help you understand different nuances, possibilities and actual corporate strategy shifts driven by API design.