Seeing what people are saying about your organization on social media provides a window into your audience’s perceptions. However, those perceptions might be skewed just as much as if the window you’re looking through is clouded or cracked.
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Meaningful Measurement without Huge Investment
Some simple ways to meaningfully measure communication without devoting too much time or money.
Measuring the engagement “sweet spot”
There seems to be little overlap in how engagement is measured for employees and how leadership experts describe engaged leaders. This article proposes integrating leadership engagement concepts into employee engagement research.
Matching audit tools to the information you need
How to carry out a communication audit depending on your organization’s need and budget, starting with observational metrics before qualitative and quantitative research.
Measuring the Right Change Issues
With so many change initiatives currently underway, it’s important to measure how they’re being received. But don’t fall into the trap of measuring just what management wants to measure as executives may not be focused on the right issues to expedite the changes they’re hoping to achieve.
Sarah Fitzgerald
August 17, 2009 Angela contributed to my thinking on a digital media strategy for the Association. Her robust input, facts…
Audience-Free Measurement: High-Quality Metrics without Surveys
Many communication measures can be captured and tracked without having to spend any money or taking too much time, including content analysis, reading grade level analysis, and mining more data out of past surveys.
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Employees’ trusted role in building reputation
Trust and credibility shouldn’t be the only factors determining which sources of information we use. Just because we believe what someone tells us doesn’t mean we want them to do the telling.