With many organizations including enterprise social networks or internal social media in their strategies to engage employees it becomes imperative to actively listen to conversations and mine sentiments to craft suitable and timely interventions. Especially, after a sensitive event or a key business decision that impacts most employees there is always going to be conversations […]
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Can Your Organization Do Without Internal Communications?
Do read my guest post  on Rachel Miller’s blog – Dairy of an Internal Communicator and share your thoughts. Interested to hear what you think. Rachel Miller  is a UK based Internal Communication and Social Media strategist and the author of Share This. She tweets at @AllthingsIC.
Internal Social Networks – Are They A Waste of Time?
Many organizations are jumping on the internal social network bandwagon and trying to mirror a lot of what Facebook offers to its users. With opportunities to share, partner, identify and create solutions that benefit the organization the internal social network seems like the best thing ever that happened to internal communications. Or is it? Having […]
Feedback and Lessons for Internal Communications
Like many of you I have in the last few weeks engaged with a few product and service organizations to address issues of service lapses and product defects. A couple of experiences turned out to be very positive while others made me wonder about the state of ownership and commitment from such organizations. In the […]
Struggling to Build Your Internal Communication Team’s Presence?
Internal communicators are experts and specialists who collaborate with leaders and human resources to help achieve a shared understanding of organizational goals, connect and recognize employees. However to be accepted as leaders the team is often called up to prove its worth and value. How you build your team’s presence is crucial for their success. […]
The joy of partnering with a leader blogger who ‘gets’ it
As an internal communication professional nothing can come close to working for an internal client who just ‘gets’ it! I wanted to write this post to share insights from an ongoing partnership that I am beginning to enjoy. Also, share some ideas to make your internal leader’s blog leap ahead. Two reasons that make it […]
Sharing India with the world
Aware and Connected. This is exactly how I felt earlier this month as I shared perspectives on social media and internal communication from India with a set of global communicators who attended my session at the 2011 World International Association of Business Communicatiors Conference held at San Diego, US. The IABC World Conference brings 1,400 […]
Empowering Non Profits with Social Media and Communication
NASSCOM Foundation invited me to speak on ‘Leveling Web 2.0 for social causes’ at their Connect IT forum at Bangalore today. The other panelists in my session were Sachin Malhan, CEO, Inclusive Planet (who did a great job of moderating the session) and Anu Unnikrishnan, Marketing Consultant, for Jaago Re a popular campaign by Tata […]
Seeking an Internal Communication Role? Plan Your Change
Seeking a role in internal communication and not sure how to go about the interview process? In this blog I am sharing pertinent themes and relevant questions that you should ask and seek answers for while planning your move and interviewing for a role in internal communication. I an earlier post I had written on potential […]
Revolution 2.0 and Implications for Internal Communications
Over the past few weeks the world watched as people movements toppled regimes across the Arab world. I have been intrigued by the way leaderless bands of people joined hands to form a cohesive force that overthrew a dictator in Tunisia and freed Egypt from a ruler who stayed in the saddle for 30 long […]