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Written by: Priya Bates, ABC, MC, CMP, President, Inner Strength Communication Inc. “Communication professionals want more respect and have been talking about getting their rightful seat at the (decision-making) table for most of my career. Over 20 years as an Internal Communication professional, I’ve learned that you don’t automatically get the seat, you have to
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SharePoint was originally created as a collaboration tool. It wasn’t intended to be a content management system, or a social media tool. These elements came later. SharePoint – along with it’s related Microsoft tools – is in a constant state of evolution; especially lately. How organizations use SharePoint for collaboration also has evolved as
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Originally posted by Beth Cobert. The results of the 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) are in and they show that employees across the Federal Government are more engaged in their workplaces and more satisfied with their jobs than they were a year ago. While there is still plenty of room for improvement, there are
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Written by: Ann Melinger, CEO, Brilliant Ink Picture this – you’re waiting in line for a new thrill ride at your favorite theme park. A self-proclaimed adrenaline junky, your excitement builds with each warning sign you see as the line inches along – “DO NOT RIDE if you are pregnant or prone to motion sickness.”
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Written by: Chuck Gose, Founder & Host, ICology Referencing a past conference I attended, one of the presenters, Melissa Balkon, had a wonderful session about building a meaningful brand. Her presentation was focused on the external brand BUT there were a lot of great takeaways for those looking to define their company’s internal brand. First
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By Darcie Piechowski, the Social Media & Innovation Fellow for the IBM Center for the Business of Government The immediate access to citizen feedback rendered possible by our digital world presents new and faster means for government organizations to improve their services. While the government recognizes the importance of obtaining public feedback and is beginning
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By Caitlin Newark, Novetta Nexus The degree of interest in applications involving “cognitive fingerprints” has taken off in recent years, spearheaded in large part by government-sponsored research initiatives such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Active Authentication program, which has facilitated the exploration of numerous novel, multimodal behavioral and cognitive biometric authentication systems by
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By Michael Blumenthal There’s an old project management adage, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. This is certainly true for deploying Office 365 and more specifically, SharePoint Online, for an organization. Planning involves more than just answering the technical questions needed to sync a company’s Active Directory to Office 365. Planning for
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Originally posted on Compliance Center by Ilyssa Levins and Debra Michaels Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to boost a team’s creativity is to unshackle them from constraints. But innovation expert Adam Richardson, in his Harvard Business Review blog post entitled “Boosting Creativity Through Constraints” counters this perspective and uniquely asserts that the best
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By Stacy Wilson, ABC Eloquor Consulting, Inc. It was just four weeks before their scheduled launch and our client’s project lead hadn’t made any progress on wrangling thousands of pieces of content for a new HR site on their digital workplace. How would they be ready for launch? It’s a classic example of why you
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