If there is one topic out there in the field of Social Business that has been bugging me for a long while, as perhaps one of my strongest pet peeves ever, way even before we first started using the concepts of Social Business and Enterprise 2.0, that would be the one on Employee Engagement. Bad employee relations. Money. MORE >>

Yes, I know, this time around, and contrary to other Jams in the past, IBM conducted this one for IBM employees only. And that is that shift away from Social Business into Open Business. into becoming an Open Business. Always have been, even with Social Business. Is IBM Ready to Become an Open Business? MORE >>

One way that many organisations deal with this is to create social media guidelines but even more important than any guidelines you might right is the internal culture change needed to real to make yours a true social business. And even for those firms that did, many employees claim that they do not know what they are. Tweet This! MORE >>

Of course, I’m talking about Employee Engagement or, in other words, how do you keep your employees motivated to excel at what they already do, driven by their distinctive passions, purpose and meaning? Or how another study finds out how “ One Third of Employers Have Disciplined Employees Using Social Media “? MORE >>

Here’s a slide from Tom Chatfield’s presentation at TED, 7 ways games reward the brain. Yep this is Engagement - it’s what I want to do, and I am enjoying the experience of doing it…both my desire and expectation is being met, and perhaps more. Tom is referring to the engagement Gamers have when playing virtual/video games. MORE >>