Getting intranet/portal governance right

Been talking with clients a lot lately about intranet and portal governance. While some start off with questions about “what” it is, all of them want to understand “how” to create good governance. We have been working furiously on preparing a...

Finding the underlying truth

How do you know when you’ve uncovered an underlying truth? Do you settle on the initial finding? Or do you dig deeper? I’ve been working with a healthcare client lately to assess and improve their internal communication program. In interviews, conference...

How connected we are

I just finished presenting a webinar with NewsGator. Before the Q&A was done I had several e-mails from attendees and several new Twitter followers. I thought about blogging about the content, but one of the new Twitter followers has already done that on his blog....

Discipline and documentation

I spent a day and a half this week with a client on intranet/portal governance. They are excited – that’s right “excited” – about getting more disciplined and documenting processes and accountabilities. They talked about formalizing currently...

Policy and code of conduct for social tech

As I was presenting today at the Communitelligence conference on social technology, I realized I’ve never actually blogged about policy and code of conduct for social technology. It’s something we help our clients with often and there are some key...