Measuring employee engagement and happiness: Should you be building an app for that?

When talking about measuring employee engagement, happiness or satisfaction at work many people resort to quarterly, biannual or annual surveys. Don’t get me wrong. These type of surveys can be great and very insightful when done well. However, one of the key weaknesses many of them suffer from is that they lack follow up and [...]

Social business is not just social media, it takes real transformation – Interview with Brad W Martin and Vala Afshar of Enterasys

Brad W Martin

Today’s interview is with Vala Afshar and Brad W. Martin of Enterays who have recently written a book called The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence, which charts Enterasys‘ transformation into a truly social business. This interview follows on from my recent interview with Neville Hobson in Lessons from ten years of blogging and eight years [...]

Lessons from ten years of blogging and eight years of podcasting – Interview with Neville Hobson

Neville Hobson

Today’s interview is with Neville Hobson, an entrepreneurial communications professional who has been blogging since 2002 and podcasting since 2005. This interview came about after Neville posted on his blog in the middle of December that he started blogging ten years ago. Following that post, I was thrilled when he agreed to be interviewed for [...]

Solve customer and business problems faster through collaboration – Interview with Jacob Morgan

Jacob-Morgan The Collaborative Organisation

Today’s interview is with Jacob Morgan, the Principal & Co-Founder of Chess Media Group, a management consulting and strategic advisory firm focused on collaboration. He has also authored of The Collaborative Organization, a best-selling book on collaboration strategy. Increasing collaboration within organisations using social tools like Chatter, Yammer and Jive etc is increasingly becoming an [...]

CRM, social media, social business and the future – Interview with Jon Ferrara of Nimble

John Ferrara Nimble

Recently, I spoke to David Meerman Scott in Inbound marketing is about instant communications and creating content – Interview with David Meerman Scott. To follow that and as a result of my attendance at that conference, I met Richard Young (@richard_y), the Director of EMEA at Nimble. He arranged for me to speak to Jon [...]

From innovation to marketing to culture, is your approach young brain or old brain?

Tim Drake Young Brain TEDxBrighton

Today’s post is a reflection on a talk that I heard whilst at an event last week that, I believe, applies to all organisations, their people and their ability to evolve, innovate and stay ahead in these changing times. On Friday of last week, I attended TEDxBrighton, where the speakers were sharing ideas on the [...]

Customer service in the future will be a company wide mentality and not a department – Interview with Dave Carroll of United Breaks Guitars

Dave Carroll United Breaks Guitars

Following on from my recent interview, True customer engagement is not based on click throughs or contests – Interview with Wendy Lea, CEO of Get Satisfaction, today I am pleased to present to you an interview I recently did with Dave Carroll, a singer songwriter and the maker of the famous United Breaks Guitars video [...]

True customer engagement is not based on click throughs or contests – Interview with Wendy Lea, CEO of Get Satisfaction

Wendy Lea Get Satisfaction

Following on from my recent interview, Build relationships with your customers that matter – Interview with Chris Brogan on The Impact Equation, today I am pleased to present to you an interview I did with Wendy Lea, CEO of Get Satisfaction, the leading customer engagement platform that helps companies build better relationships with their customers [...]

Retailers and their customers – what’s now and what’s next – Interview with Ian McGarrigle of the World Retail Congress

Ian McGarrigle World Retail Congress

Following on from my recent interview, #PositivelySocial and why customer service in social media is a failure – Interview with Frank Eliason, today I’m very excited to share with you an interview that I recently conducted with Ian McGarrigle, Chairman of the World Retail Congress about the upcoming conference in London on 19th-21st September where [...]

Sponsored Video: You have to create a social business today – Burberry

Note: This post has been sponsored by Salesforce, but all narrative and opinion is my own. There has been a lot of talk recently about what it is to be a Social Business or Enterprise. Amongst all of the talk there are a lot of different opinions of what it is and it isn’t. It [...]

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