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New Rules for Attracting Young Talent Into the Workplace
Friday, November 4
Nice post and infographic from my good friend Edward Ferris at Charlesmore Partners Intenational in the States on Cisco's findings 'that young professionals want an open environment that accommodates social media, device freedom, remote working to accommodate their lifestyle and inspire innovation' and in a third of cases 'sometimes more than salary'! http://executiveinsight.typepad.com/executive_insight/2011/11/new-rules-for-attracting-young-talent-into-the-workplace.html People, People, People
Friday, November 4
What a great day at the HR Forum in London this week! It was so good to be able to share our employee engagement work with so many interested people, get great interaction, hear questions and discuss the challenges and approaches taken with every group who came along to our presentations. A key topic was who should be an organisation’s Employer Brand Ambassadors and how do they add real value? It was generally agreed that, ideally, these people should be from across the organisation and get the brand both intellectually and emotionally. There was some healthy...
University Challenge
Friday, November 4
We’ve been working alongside Southampton Solent University for several years, supporting the BA (Hons) PR and Communication course by providing the students with briefs to respond to as part of a simulated pitch process. In the last couple of weeks, we had the initial session where we met the students, gave some background as to...
The tricky issue of influence
Friday, November 4
Influencer ranking tools have been a hot topic of conversation lately. Last week when Klout, the original influencer-ranking tool, changed its ranking algorithm there was a sharp backlash on social media. What emerged was that some individuals had been adapting their online behaviour to try and ‘game’ their Klout score, and now they were angry...
Strap It On….For Saints Row: The Third
Wednesday, November 2
Spacemen in gorilla suits, cheerleaders with explosive 'apocafists', a strange sadistic cat professor, and a mind-bending myriad of colorful gangs and surreal weaponry. It can only be the hallucinogenic, open-world anarchy that is Saints Row: The Third. And down at Ocean Park we've been bringing all of that chaos to life - online. Fashion Brands Out-Gunned by Vertical Search Sites
Tuesday, November 1
Keri is a shopaholic, and she’s pretty sure that when it comes to tracking down the ‘must have’ fashion items of this Fall, there aren’t many brand websites that can live with the specialist search engines. Movember has arrived
Tuesday, November 1
Movember has arrived and a soon to be hairy band of brothers are growing ‘tasches in support of cancer research. We’ll post the final results, of course, but show your support for Danny, Al, Martin, Tom, both Nicks and both Richs, George, and Gemma and I – the Mo-Sistas – by donating at our Mo-Space... Social Media in Financial Services – making the case
Monday, October 31
We’ve been invited to take part in a conference tomorrow that looks at the opportunities facing financial services companies in social media. Julius Duncan will be chairing and speaking about the business case for social. You can follow the discussion on Twitter #smfs11. Headstream has worked with a number of financial services companies over the... Happy Halloween!
Monday, October 31
As it’s Halloween we used the opportunity to carve some jack-o-lanterns over the weekend to send to some people along with our thoughts about why social media needn’t be scary. We find that many people still don’t quite know where to start with social, and are worried about making the business case, or prioritising activity...