Category Archives: Concepts

General thoughts, musings and theory about social media and how it may impact organizations.

Relationship Aggregation

Welcome to E Quint Consulting. If you’re new here, you may want to find out what E Quint does or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am coming to the realization that one of the problems with social networks (the online kind that is) is that the focus seems to be in the […]

Inside-Out: Opening the Enterprise

A while back I wrote a post about how organizations should use social media monitoring content to feed its internal conversations. Let’s call that “outside-in”, or bringing outside information into the organization.
Now I want to look at “inside-out”. The idea for this post was spawned by the Tim O’Reilly keynote at Web 2.0 Expo NY in […]

Making the Case for Enterprise 2.0: Employee Engagement

If you listen to the choir, using social tools inside the enterprise (commonly referred to as “enterprise 2.0”) is the greatest thing since the toaster. The problem is that there is scant documentation to back up the claim. Yes there are cases available, for example here and here, that provide anecdotal evidence of the power […]

Effective Employee Communication = Real Money

The Watson Wyatt Worldwide 2007/2008 Communication ROI Study highlights the fact that organizations that make the effort to have excellent employee communication programs realize real bottom line value.
Their key findings include:

Companies with the most effective employee communication programs provided a 91 percent total return to shareholders (TRS) from 2002 to 2006, compared with 62 percent for firms […]

Freedom to Think and Act

I have long subscribed to the notion that the success of the so-called “enterprise 2.0” movement will come from changes in culture and behavior moreso than from advances in technology. One of the biggest changes that needs to happen is for organizational leaders to let lose the reigns and allow employees freely think and interact. […]

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