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If you are building out a digital experience, chances are you have two fat challenges. One is technology — a lot of technology that doesn’t always work together the way you think it should and hoped it would. The other is content. You need good quality content that is relevant.
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We spend our lives trying to make sense of the world around us. We do that by looking for patterns and tropes. This is why we see a man on the moon and Jesus in toast. This is what a narrative is.
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Narratives matter to brands. How you construct and convey your narrative has a profound effect on how people assign meaning and value to your products, and, of course, the likelihood that they will buy them.
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Last week my son set himself to the task of building a computer. He’d heard that kids did this, and he wanted a powerful gaming computer and his (evil) mother had told him that the price of the computer he wanted was (way) too high.
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Jostle is adding a secure file sharing and viewing component to its existing cloud-based intranet solution to provide a higher level of "robustness, security and functionality," Jostle ’s CEO Brad Palmer said.
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Creativity and intelligence depend on making connections between disparate bits of information. If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting Deb Lavoy in person, her articles are a close second to seeing what this looks like in action.
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How a bold but simple act of respect helped turn one organization around. Employee engagement matters. 2014 sent us a barrage of “5 Ways to Boost Employee Engagement” and “7 Things Great Leaders Do” posts, and many of them had some good nuggets. We get it. You get it.
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It is a medium that connects, conveys and spreads a social network. It has moments of brilliance, hours of banality, and wondrous conversations sometimes slide into noxious platitudes.
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A platform is essentially an Erector set with very poor instructions. Sure -- go ahead and build a motorized crane. If you a. know what a crane is and should do and b. know what parts need to be assembled in what order to do it.
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. -- Michael Jordan A silo is something that divides us from others. It is a set of people that is disconnected from other parts of the organization. A functioning organization has a purpose and a mission to achieve.
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Are intranets becoming obsolete? No way, say officials at Jostle, the 20-employee operation that offers what it calls turnkey intranet software in the cloud. Some industry estimates cite employee intranet engagement at less than 50 percent. Jostle, however, claims some clients report 85 percent of its employees use the
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There’s a problem here, and it's not (only) one of culture or technology -- it's one of profound impedance mismatch between old and new paradigms of business. That is to say it's like taking a Firewire connector and trying to plug it into a video cable.
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Business adoption of social tools may be subject to debate. What is not, is its adoption of digital. Employees’ sense of their workplace, workmates and tools for getting work done is increasingly digital. This is true independently of how social a company is or is not.
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We've been seeking enterprise 2.0 and social business for several years now with some notable success, but still quite a lot of “vague” and some level of fatigue.
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