The Profile Wars (Part 1): What’s In Your Wallet?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

During the March 2012 CloudForce event in San Francisco, Salesforce.com announced its newly integrated services from Salesforce Rypple, delivering social goal, performance and feedback capabilities integrated with Salesforce Chatter and CRM just six weeks after completing the acquisition of Rypple. In the many write-ups on the announcement, I saw a heavy focus on the functional capabilities enabled by this [...]

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Trends in Social Talent: Web Event Recap

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

In March, I had the honor of kicking off the first episode of the Social Talent Show, a bi-monthly virtual event sponsored by TalentCulture, UpMo and #TChat (@Twitter). In this inaugural show I framed Social Talent as the ”Next Wave of Awesomeness”, and had a healthy conversation/debate with Rob Garcia of UpMo and Meghan Biro of TalentCulture on why you should care about these emerging trends, the [...]

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Accelerate Social Learning with Next Generation Unified Communications

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

The rapid pace of change in business today requires learning agility, and formal learning programs cannot keep pace.  Today’s advances in Unified Communications enrich and enable social learning, transforming how people collaborate, communicate, learn and share knowledge. In today’s networked economy, connecting people to the information they need, and doing this when, where and how it’s needed, [...]

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Thriving in the Future of Work

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

The world is changing, and so, too, is the way we work. From how we attract and onboard new talent into our organizations, to how we view and measure individual and team performance, to ensuring ongoing engagement and inspiration for better business results. Traditional work practices and business structures are evolving at an unparalleled rate [...]

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Virtual Conference: Converging Workforce Intelligence with Social Analytics

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

Join me Thursday, March 1, at 11am eastern, as I present:“People Insights 2.0: Opportunity at the Confluence of Workforce Intelligence and Social Analytics,” sponsored by HR.com and the Institute of Human Resources (IHR) Community for Social Media and Employee Communication. Session Description: The use of enterprise social networking platforms is on the rise as organizations look [...]

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Getting to Workforce Planning 2.0 with Social Network Analysis (Updated 4/12/12)

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

(4/12/12 Update:  You can now download the full article from the bottom of this post) Subscribers to IHRIM’s Workforce Solutions Review will find the December 2011/January 2012 issue dedicated to Strategic Workforce Planning.  Be sure to check out this article on leveraging insights derived from social network analysis (SNA) to get more from your workforce planning initiatives.  An [...]

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Gamification: It’s About Strategy, Not Luck

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

In a recently published report on enterprise gamification, my colleague explores the latest trends in the use of gamification to drive behaviors and effect desired outcomes. I found it inspiring that in this report, one in five early adopters of gamification are HR executives, pointing to the early but strong interest in the benefits derived from people [...]

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Join me Dec. 8 on Episode 128 of HR Happy Hour: The Consumerization of HR

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

Join me this week as I join as a guest speaker on Steve Boese’s HR Happy Hour blogtalk radio show. Sponsored by Aquire Call in 646-378-1086 Follow the conversation on Twitter – hashtag #HRHappyHour Listen live on the show page here, on the call in listener line above, or use the widget player embedded in the the HRHappyHour home page. Episode [...]

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