Enabling BYOD
Challenges Associated with BYOD There are many intuitive advantages to enabling a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) culture inside your organization – increased productivity, lowered costs, and improved employee acceptance. While these benefits are appealing, there are many serious challenges associated with deploying a secure BYOD environment, including loss of control, potential loss of data, and lack of consistent policy enforcement. The challenges associated with BYOD can force an organization to rigorously evaluate its security...
read moreWhy Your Enterprise Social Platform Is Not a Solution for Video
With the rapid growth of enterprise social platforms on the corporate intranet, more and more companies are discovering the value of having employees and executives collaborate and share information in real time using intranet solutions that function like Facebook. Microsoft Yammer, Jive, Salesforce Chatter, IBM Connections, Newsgator, and Socialcast, are all solutions playing in this new market. Like Facebook all of these platforms allow users to upload and share video. Most however are simple file uploads, much like an attachment, the original source video file remains in it's original format and this will become a major headache for IT departments and Communication departments, as complaints from employees come pouring in because they can't play the file on their device or because the video streaming experience is less than optimal. For example, if an employee uploads and shares a Windows Media Video file (.wmv) it will play on windows desktops, but not on Macs (without downloading and installing windows media player which Mac users are loathe to do), nor will it work on Android or iOS devices. It's the wild west and will quickly become unmanageable.
read more5 Reasons Internal Communications Needs Video
Video is More Interesting Anyone can send out a newsletter or email, but video captures people’s attention. How many dozens of newsletters go unread? How many memos get skimmed, but don’t receive the attention they might require? LOTS! You can communicate the same thing in a video that a memo or newsletter might explain. Detail company policies, feature your latest product or service, maybe even highlight the work of an individual or group. The difference is people will watch and pay attention to the video. Communication from the...
read moreWho is Using Video Collaboration in Business Settings?
The top two departments involved in video collaboration represent traditional stakeholders in video collaboration. IT typically represents an operational overlay for many video efforts, such as setting up group meetings and training programs. In the executive suite, video collaboration technologies have long been used to connect remote leaders tasked with key strategic decisions.
read moreFour Categories of Employee Engagement
Engaged employees are distinguished by an enhanced concern for the future of the company, principally demonstrated by the employee’s willingness to expend discretionary effort. They characteristically have a strong emotional attachment to the company that employs them, which translates into tangible positive business outcomes, such as higher retention rates, productivity and reduced absenteeism. Engagement can be broken down into four categories: Emotional Attachment, Involvement, Commitment, and Productivity.
read moreBenefits of Video Employee Generated Content
Why Video EGC is Valuable When video EGC is created and distributed in real-time, town hall meetings and other events, become vehicles for knowledge sharing, expertise building, and are effectively transformed into an immersive virtual culture which builds teams across borders. Insiders continuously report that employees are more engaged through peer and manager EGC than executive produced content . The intangible benefits of video EGC include a deeper consideration of the nature and value of the individual employee’s work, an...
read moreImproving Engagement with Employee Generated Content
In real terms, employee engagement corresponds to higher retention, improved customer service, individual performance, unit productivity, and enterprise-level financial performance.
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