Maddie and I put together a quick survey about social media and leadership a few weeks ago, and in no time at all we got 505 people to complete the survey (thanks to all of you who helped spread the word!). I've been rev ...
I'm making my way through McKinsey's study about adoption of social technologies in the workplace. The study suggests we can find a 20% increase in proeductivity if we adopt these technologies (particularly in large orga ...
Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen are two of my favorite people. They are consultants and speakers (like me), and they work around issues of diversity, HR, organization development (also like me). But that's not why I li ...
Mark Shaefer has a nice post about a recent "social media measurement smackdown" he participated in during a social media conference. He was pushing back against a prevailing notion that you can't measure social media. H ...
Check out this great interview with Andrew McAfee of MIT's Center for Digital Business on how to talk to CEOs about social media. He's got some great tips (like why you shouldn't use the word "social"...interesting), but ...
Edelman's Annual "Trust Barometer" report is out. Maddie broke the news on SocialFishing, pointing out that trust in CEOs dropped precipitously (50% last year; 38% this year), where trust in the "regular employee" was up ...
Maddie posted last week about the survey currently being administered by the nonprofit, Civlination, for online community managers. Civilination is about stopping online hostility and bullying so everyone's voice can ...
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw real anger expressed in a blog dialogue in the association community, but that's what we have right now in the midst of a multi-blog exchange that all started with Jo ...
Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant published their first book this week. W00t! It's called Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web. They gave me an advance copy and even put ...
In case any of you didn't realize it, I do a regular monthly blog post on the world famous Socialfishing blog. The title of my column is "the social organization," and I write about the intersection of soci ...
