What is our concept of “news”?

Last week I chaired ALI’s Internal Communications for Health Care conference in Philadelphia. There were a number of very interesting conversations had there, some of which I’ll discuss here in a few posts. While they involved health care communicators,...

Creating a digital workplace with what you have

Last week in Chicago I was honored to chair ALI’s conference on SharePoint for Internal Communication. The lively group of about 70 communicators, IT professionals and professionals in other related fields participated in a session I led about digital workplace....

Create great news in your SharePoint intranet

As the debate about intranet news rages on, I thought I’d enter the fray with a new post for SharePoint Pro Magazine: Create great news in your SharePoint intranet If you balance curated news with social streams, I think you’ll meet user needs optimally....

Technology as a lever for driving engagement

“Engagement is hard for us,” whined a client. “Our people are spread out, many don’t sit in front of computers and our managers don’t have the resources they need to communicate effectively.” Boo hoo for you. You are just like...

Intranet news isn’t just from Corporate Communication

When I presented a session at last month’s IntraTeam intranet conference in Copenhagen, I made one big assumption: organizational news is not just the domain of the corporate communicator I’ve believed this for a long time. What I didn’t account for...