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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WorkSimple Brings New Focus on Social Goals and Engagement

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

In a market where the term “social” is applied to just about any form of collaboration, where the ability to make comments on web transactions and send email is often (and misleadingly) marketed as social feedback, it can be challenging to find those solutions that truly  reimagine people processes in the context of social technologies, [...]

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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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HR: Are You Ready for Mobile Diversity?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

More and more mobile devices are showing up at work, whether sanctioned by IT or not. iPhones and iPads, Androids, Blackberries, … today’s workers bring with them the tools with which they are most comfortable in order to get work done. Have you embraced the usage of personal devices in the workplace (a “bring your [...]

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NextGen Approaches for the Next Generation Workforce

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

A common topic of conversation with my clients and vendors is that of the multi-generational workforce and its impacts on HCM.  I published a detailed review of this subject late last year in Workforce Solutions Review, but I have provided a brief recap of that article below to facilitate continued conversations.  I want to hear from [...]

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