How to become a better manager by building trust?

One of the key success factors for implementing an enterprise social network, collaboration platform or social intranet is the support from the executive management.  Whilst you might have found a (financial) sponsor for your project, it does not always translate into actual use of the […]

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Corporate website trend: From text to active content

Summary: Moving ‚from text to active content‘ is the second corporate website trend we identified. This post is part of a series of blog posts in which we look at trends for corporate websites. Most corporate websites do not lack content but often it is […]

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Corporate website trend: From static to real-time information

Summary: Moving ‚from static to real-time information‘ is the first corporate website trend we identified. This post is part of a series of blog posts in which we look at trends for corporate websites. Whilst static content will probably always be the biggest share of […]

What to consider for a relaunch of your corporate website

There comes a time when every company needs to think about its corporate website. ‚STOP‘, I hear you say. ‚Isn’t this 2014 we live in? Corporate websites are so 90s!‘ I agree. Looking at corporate websites of many large companies you could easily get the […]

Alumni relations in a connected world

[ I originally published this post on the Dachis Group blog in 2012. ] Let me ask you a question: are you still in touch with a company where you worked previously? I assume most of you are, but who you are in touch with: HR? External […]

The evolution of business

[ I originally published this post on the Dachis Group blog in 2012. ] The social business movement appears to be in full swing. Over the past weeks, I have read time and time again that 2012 will be the year of social business (Business Computing World, SXSW, We […]

From traditional business to social business

When businesses ask for a social media strategy, what they are often really asking for is: Get me a presence on Facebook, Twitter and the like. The mantra of cultural and organisational change that is required in the social web seems to ring hollow. To be fair, […]

How an organization turned its internal communications upside-down

[ I originally published this post on the Headshift blog in 2009. ] Recently I had the opportunity to present one of our case studies at the Social Media for Business Meetup Group in NYC. It was the inaugural meetup, which I am co-organizing together with Daniel […]