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How Employee Experience Can Help Increase Employee Engagement

By Amanda McClay, Tribe, Inc. Employee experience is getting a lot of attention in the internal communications world lately. One reason may be that we continue to see studies indicating lower employee engagement, which means less motivated employees, lower retention rates and poor company performance. Companies are struggling for an answer and don’t know where

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Why You Should Attend The Intranet And Digital Workplace Summit

By Jason Oshita, HospitalPortal.net      Hi Everyone, For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Jason, the Client Engagement Manager here at HospitalPortal.net. We typically reserve these blog posts for informational topics with specific content. However, for this blog post, I wanted to do something a little different. Last week, I attended the 6th annual

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employee engagement

5 Ways to Recognize the Employees Who Do the Real Work of the Company

Written by Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin, Tribe Inc. Giving visibility to leadership is important. People want to see the faces and know the humans behind the titles at the top of the org chart. But it can be even more powerful to give visibility to the people in the rest of the organization. Unwittingly, internal communications

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internal communications

10 Ways to Reach Your Non-Desk Employees

By Andreas Slotosch, Beekeeper. Many companies struggle with keeping non-desk employees in the loop and aligned with the organization. They aren’t regularly a part of the company’s internal communication circle. This can turn into a big problem as non-desk workers become less engaged, which results in costly turnover. Thankfully, it’s easier than ever to reach

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work place

These Two Words Will Boost Your Employee Engagement

Written by Pi Wen Looi, Principal, Novacrea. Our employee survey results consistently show that one of the things employees crave most is acknowledgement and appreciation. The simplest way to acknowledge employees’ contributions is to say thank you, yet this is often overlooked. The following sample employee comments are common feedback we see in our surveys:

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Let’s Sidecar: A Responsive Approach to Responsive Design

By: Zaid White, Senior Art Director, CHIEF. “Let’s Sidecar” —Admittedly, this is a phrase I have failed miserably at installing into our everyday jargon to describe how designers and developers work together, especially when responsive design is taking shape.  And even though we toss the phrase around as more of a joke now to describe

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HR engagement

Cultivate Engagement

Written by Mark Tarallo, Senior Editor, ASIS International. Each day, pollsters at the Gallup company monitor the upticks and downticks of America’s pulse. They track large-scale indicators like the country’s unemployment rate, the citizenry’s economic confidence, and the president’s approval rating. But among these tracked statistics at Gallup.com Daily lies a less publicized marker: what

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digital government

Using Digital to Turn Mission into Realities

Written by Francesca El-Attrash Ukaejiofo, Granicus. A true digital transformation starts by looking inward and identifying our missions in government – whether it’s updating citizens of road closures or better promoting a foster care program. We have the tools (cloud computing, social and mobile technology) and the talent to improve the citizen experience. But how

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health care intranet

The Top Compliance Challenges For Hospitals in 2016 and How An Intranet Can Help Overcome Them

Written by Giuliana LaMantia, HospitalPortal.net The Joint Commission released the top CMS requirements that posed the biggest challenge for hospitals, ASCs, LTCs, etc. to remain compliant with in 2016. Many of these challenges can be mitigated with the use of a standardized, internal communication system. We took a look at the top challenges for hospitals,

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