SAS Knowledge & Insight

Look at how progressive companies will recruit, share information, engagement employees, design of the office environment. Underpinning all these ideas is new technology.

"Companies have long divided consumers into segments. They should do the same with potential -- and current -- workers."

Love Lego, love stance on getting jiggy with social media

How major brands and organisations are finding new ways of categorising and engaging young talent

Spot on summary of recent Gartner report that supports out approach to social employee engagement (social business)

Universum's Spring 2012 Talent Attraction Barometer Some interesting stats - 37% are measuring "quality of hire" and engagement 31% are monitoring cost-per-hire 17% still don't measure the effectiveness of their employer branding

new ways to recognize employees proliferate in the workplace. Take, for example, Work.com, a service that uses social technologies to transform the way companies recognize and reward their employees.

37 ways of using Yammer effectively

I believe this perfectly summarises why Yammer is the perfect companion to email systems and intranets in medium to large companies. Lively community of practices and idea generation are only two of the many positives of using Yammer. We should really consider it as a tool to support internal comms.

"As with any new Facebook feature, one of the main questions that comes to mind is what Graph Search means for brands and marketers. One of the sources of information that Graph Search uses are brand 'likes', e.g. shops my friends like. This will encourage brands to make more engaging pages and get as many fans as possible, aiming to come up first in people's searches (sort of a Google SEO strategy)  However,  just because you like a brand, that does not mean that you engage with them or have bought / will buy their products."

How you can embed social technology and behaviour into the entire HR process and employee lifecycle

Video interview with Angela Ahrendts on how Burberry uses social media etc for its employees

findings from a recent survey on use of social media platforms in large organisations with recommendations