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Is technology killing employee communications?

Communications Conversations

Consider the following: Three out of four (75 percent) employees report wasting time to keep up with the constant dings, pings, chats and more. Two-thirds of employees (66 percent) report losing between 30 minutes and 1 hour every day from pressure to keep up, costing over three billion dollars in annual profits from wasted time alone.

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How executives are using LinkedIn publishing to drive organizational PR goals

Communications Conversations

Conducting a content audit, identifying your content resources (I blogged about that last week). And, one of those strategies that’s flying under the radar is brands using executives and their LinkedIn profiles to advance PR goals and organizational priorities. Sure, not all CEOs are active on LinkedIn. Developing content.

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Why Spanx’s Sara Blakely might be the best CEO on LinkedIn

Communications Conversations

LinkedIn followers, btw). Nope, Sara Blakely , the founder and CEO of Spanx is the best CEO on LinkedIn. She doesn’t have the largest “following” on LinkedIn (378,000+), but Sara’s last ten posts averaged: 67,451 likes. It’s free or corporate jargon. Not Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.

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Why aren’t more company leaders publishing on LinkedIn?

Communications Conversations

The other day, I was browsing through LinkedIn (something I do at least once a day, for various reasons). Person starts publishing on LinkedIn out of curiousity. Until, they are basically blogging on LinkedIn, as I like to call it. After all, that’s what blogs are for, right? It’s a familiar story.

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Employee Evangelists: Your Secret Social PR Weapon in a Crisis

Waxing UnLyrical

Social media has redefined crisis response in three important ways: outlet options, messaging speed and employee engagement. But the most important change to crisis response has been under-reported and underutilized—the power of employee evangelists. Employee evangelists are made, not born. Guest Post by Laurel Kennedy.

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Rethinking how to introduce a new CEO to employees

Communications Conversations

And, it got me thinking: Introducing a new CEO to the rank-and-file employees is a big job. And typically it rests of the shoulders of corporate communications and PR teams. And that’s a problem–specifically for us, as communicators–for three big reasons: 1–Employees want to be led. It’s easier.

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State of Social Q4 2014: LinkedIn is the real MVP

Shift Communications

With unemployment nearing all-time lows, how is LinkedIn faring? LinkedIn’s performance was stronger than ever to close out Q4 2014, with some astounding numbers. First, user growth has been stable: LinkedIn now has 347 million monthly active users, surpassing Twitter and Instagram. Are job seekers still using the site?