Social At Work

Social Media In the Workplace — a complicated tale

Success stories of companies implementing internal social media networks are the exception not the rule. These efforts can be particularly challenging given, for example, traditionally hierarchical organizational structures, inertia, and the…

Ensuring authenticity on internal social media platforms

After our discussion on social media in the workplace, I really do recognize its benefits if done properly. It creates an easy way for employees to engage across offices, time zones, departments etc. Internal social media also…

Thoughts on social media in the workplace — expressed through emoji’s

We were asked to use emoji’s to explain what we think of internal social media platforms within the work place. Here are my thoughts expressed through emoji’s and words.

Does Social media Work…At Work?

The use of social media resources in the workplace is as vexing as it is exciting. On the one hand, the use of social media for external communications, personal use, or marketing purposes opens the door to an array of compliance and logistical nightmares. The instantaneous…

Social Media in the Workplace

I select a happy emoji with the hands-up symbol to describe happiness and excitement of social media in the workplace. I…

Social Media @ Work?

As mentioned in the first class, I am not a heavy user of social media even in my personal life. Even now as a MBA student, I cannot decide whether I can be the “real” me or the “professional kind” of me. There are more and more social media platforms, and the role of social media becomes…

Is There Any Way For Me to “Unsee” That? Pretty Please?

When anyone talks about social media in the workplace, I always cringe. I just can’t help it. I immediately think of my two past employers’ Intranet sites and the random things that people would post there that they had for sale — like jars of apricot jam and doilies —…

Social Media in the Workplace

The emoji that best reflects my views on social media in the workplace is one of skepticism. Mostly, I’m skeptical at what the company hopes to get out the platform, and whether content that is both organic and engaging can truly live on workplace social media. With several of…

Think Before You Post

For my emoji to represent social media in the workplace, I selected “Thinking Face”.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good