Written by Sharon Florentine, Senior Writer, CIO.com While communicating with customers, vendors and end-users is certainly key to business success, your internal communication strategy is just as critical. Here’s how to boost your signal. Communicating effectively with customers, vendors, end-users, potential hires and job-seeking candidates is critical to your continued success. But don’t overlook your
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Newsletters remain a cornerstone of internal communication in healthcare organizations. Striking the balance between the need to deliver accurate information, updates and must-read content with the need to provide a voice of staff, volunteers, and partners in your newsletter can be difficult. Writing, creating and getting approval on each piece of content is time consuming
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As healthcare organizations, systems and networks focus on providing a continuum of care in primary care services, acute in-patient care and post-hospital care, new partnerships and relationships are formed. The internal communication function is critical to the successful management, adoption and integration of these partnerships, ensuring consistent and clear communication internally across all partner organizations
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Written by Shona Lepis, Marketing Director at Vignette. Engaging employees, creating brand ambassadors and driving change & business results through effective internal communications Please join us at the ALI Strategic Internal Branding Conference, Wednesday, October 26 – Thursday, October 27 in New York City. Vignette’s Managing Director, Gregg Apirian, will be leading a session on:
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This is written by Jennifer Zanfordino from Monaco Lange. At the start of 2016 one of our clients re-launched their wellness program. They had spent the previous months exhaustively searching for the right backend vendor to support their goals, and were determined to exceed the mediocre participation they had in the previous wellness program.
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Written by Chuck Gose in ICology. Employee advocacy is a popular topic in internal communication circles. And rightfully so. It makes a lot of business and marketing sense for companies to encourage employees to use their own social networks to share company news and information. All kinds of data point to the notion that we’re
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Change the landscape of your Internal Communication with metrics from your key digital channels – intranet, email, social and video. As an internal communicator you know the value of measurement. However, less than 50%* of senior internal communications managers believe their team have the digital and technological skills needed. Measuring communications across your channels doesn’t
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Is our strange fascination for mobile games and augmented reality something we are authentically pursuing as disciplined consumers — or are we actually being consumed? We like to think we’re disciplined consumers but if we don’t find time to unplug and look around, we may wake up and realize we’ve become victims of an extremely addictive and
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Earlier this year we surveyed internal communications professionals working in the healthcare industry. Almost 60% responded that lack of staff for new initiatives is one of the biggest challenges they face. This lack of resources is underpinned by a larger problem facing internal communicators in all industries. Newsweaver recently published the interim results of a
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Written by Stacy Wilson, President of Eloquor Consulting, Inc. I first started hearing communicators talk about “a culture of communication” more than 10 years ago. I had one client in particular who was really interested in the concept and could articulate the potential effectively. We understand the connection between good communication and the bottom line. We know that
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