Category Archives: how you work

Microsoft announced today that the Yammer brand is being retired as the product evolves to become part of the Viva employee experience suite. In this post, I talk about why that’s a great thing.

How to think about Viva Connections, Company Communicator, and Yammer as a comms professional.

I’m going to describe a situation where I felt like Pepper Potts, surprising Iron Man when he delivered that great line “let’s face it, this isn’t the worst thing you’ve caught me doing.” But before I get to that story… I haven’t talked enough about what questions you SHOULD be asking. I’ve covered models forContinue reading “What are you trying to do?”

If you’ve read some of the other articles on this site, you may know that I established it primarily to change the nature of the “which tool when” conversation from one focused on tools to one focused on principles that we can apply across present and future tools. It’s my belief that people don’t needContinue reading “Collaboration Loops: More on Making the Leap”

Working Out Loud, or #WOL on Twitter , is more than a description of how we can work together as a team. It’s a philosophy for managing a career, and a core principle of an increasing number of organizations. It’s a movement. While transparency may be one of the reasons that we want to collaborate differently, Working Out Loud is theContinue reading “Working Out Loud: the How of Transparency”

We love our email inboxes. Email is so ubiquitous, and so simple, and therein lies the secret to its success and power. However, that simplicity comes at a cost, and so we also hate our email inboxes. We’re constantly triaging and managing every message, whether it’s high-priority fire drill from the boss or just aContinue reading “Compartments: Everything in its place”