The Content Economy by Oscar Berg: Authentic concerns about soci. InShare0 This is the first in a series of blog posts where I will address authentic concerns about social media that I have encountered.
Here comes the first one: "What would it look like if everybody would say what's on their minds? " It's quite ironic (or scary) that this concern was expressed by a CEO of a small communication agency (regarding the suggestion to start using an internal micro-blogging platform so that employees located at different offices could get to know each other better and help each other out whenever needed). So, how do you answer such a question? This is how my answer would look like. Social media allows people to meet virtually, in public spaces, where anyone can listen in to and, if they want to, join a conversation. Numerous studies have concluded that the kind of informal meetings that occur spontaneously by the water cooler, or in the corridor, are the most effective ways to exchange knowledge, ideas, news, experiences, and so forth. Can innovation thrive in the culture of U.S. public health systems.
Amazon, despite its critics, has been an innovator in the private sector.
The business press and the communications teams in the private sector work hard to show that innovation mingles in the air like oxygen at successful businesses. The theory goes, innovation breeds success, which creates profits, which spurs new products and services and wealth, which of course is good for the economy and thus all of us. Forbes, for instance, showcases business innovators, like Starbucks and Amazon, by highlighting metrics that the magazine considers to be markers of innovation. According to the Forbes’ Sept. 2, 2013, piece on innovation, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos says he looks for traits in innovators in his company and allows for innovation to occur three ways: But once we start talking about government, talk of innovation gets tossed out the door.
Do any public agencies have capacity to innovate? Government still funds innovation and research and development, particularly in defense and health care. 6 Ways To Build A Better Team. Tim Wright On May 5, 2014 Every company wants increasing employee engagement.
Engaged employees are good at communicating and putting forth extra effort to fulfill expectations. I’ve recently seen articles about student athletes becoming great employees. Therefore, having an athletic mentality can help grow employee engagement. You may not want flag football in your office hallway or field hockey in the foyer. Athlete / Worker Mentality 1: Communication Success in any sport depends on communication. Coach To Worker Mentality: Practice the skill of collaborative conversation. Athlete / Worker Mentality 2: Achievement Rarely does the team that does not want to win, win.
Coach to Worker Mentality: Support and celebrate accomplishment. Athlete / Worker Mentality 3: Loyalty A familiar sports phrase is “no I in ‘team’”. Coach to Worker Mentality: Encourage frequent, pragmatic discussion of loyalty. Athlete / Worker Mentality 4: Resilience The team loses. Athlete / Worker Mentality 5: Confidence. Defining 2 #HR challenges - onboarding & engagement... Recognizing, Supporting, and Attracting Adult Learners with Digital Badges. Recognizing, Supporting, and Attracting Adult Learners with Digital Badges Through the natural capacity to share digital badges through social media and other online tools, higher education institutions will have the opportunity to reach a wider range of students than they otherwise would and show prospective students real-world learning outcomes simultaneously.
Shifting demographics and workplaces create new needs for non-traditional adult learners. Two responses to these changes have been online learning and certificates. The use of digital badges is another response to these needs that is full of potential. Digital badges offer new ways to recognize and support learning.[1] This means that they also offer new ways of attracting students. If badges are to be useful for attracting students, their evidence of learning and accomplishment needs to be compelling. Digital Badges in Higher Education Digital Badges and Learning in Higher Education What learning FUNCTIONS will your badges serve?