When you can’t meet face-to-face

On Friday, Forbes.com featured a write-up of an interview with Patrick Lencioni, a leadership consultant and author of several books on the subject. The article focuses on the degree to which technology can be relied upon to manage virtual teams and offers useful advice for organizations and managers alike. Lencioni takes an interesting approach when [...]

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Marketwire announces 10/22 internal communications audio conference

Earlier this evening, Marketwire announced an upcoming PR University audio conference tackling the use of social media and Web 2.0 in internal communications. If you have a communications department willing to foot the $299 bill (for an unlimited number of attendees), it might be worth checking out. The conference, which will take place on October [...]

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A solution in search of a problem

Up until recently, I was pretty convinced that the integration of social media into every organization’s internal communications plan was inevitable. No, not just inevitable. Necessary. I still think, to a certain degree, it is. But last week, my view was put to the test by a legend in the field of internal communications. I [...]

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Losing control

In my last post, I shared a video segment of an interview with David Pogue of the New York Times. In it, he cited “loss of control” as a primary reason companies hesitate before jumping onto the social media bandwagon. According to Jon Iwata, SVP Marketing & Communications at IBM, companies can address most of [...]

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A change would do you good

Ah… change. We’ve heard a lot about change lately. It’s a word that is used interchangeably with progress and at the same time causes even competent leaders to raise an eyebrow in skepticism or perhaps just plain fear. Depending on your role and your organization’s structure and attitude toward change, incorporating social media into a stale, but probably [...]

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