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Bob Woodward: World Doesn't See America As 'The Grown-up Nation' Anymore
Bob Woodward thinks the world doesn't hold the United States in very high regard anymore.
Appearing on the syndicated "Chris Matthews Show" this weekend, the Washington Post's most recognizable journalist said, "I'm not sure the United States has been looked at as the grown-up nation for a long time...You travel around the world a little bit, and, and there's, there's not even tough love for the United States" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BOB WOODWARD, WASHINGTON POST: But on your question about grown-up, I'm not sure the United States has been looked at as the grown-up nation for a long time. I think, I think there's a lot of negativity out there.
You travel around the world a little bit, and, and there's, there's not even tough love for the United States.
In the circles someone like Woodward travels in, is there ever a high regard for America?
Was there respect for this country amongst his peers when he was reporting on Watergate almost 40 years ago?
It really is nothing new that America's journalists hold her in such disregard. They've been doing it for decades.
But not all of them. The Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page wasn't necessarily willing to sell America short alongside Woodward:
CLARENCE PAGE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: And yet look how calm Wall Street has been. I mean, there, it's, there's a sense on Wall Street that there are a lot of theatrics going on here, but that the United States is not going to default.
Maybe one of the greatest measures of the respect the world has for a nation is their willingness to invest in its debt.
With all the financial distress and calamities that have befallen the globe in recent years, America's Treasury paper continues to be the universal safe haven of choice:
Above is a five year chart of our 10-year Treasury note. The vertical axis is interest rate, the horizontal one years.
For those unfamiliar, bonds and notes trade in an inverse relationship to interest rates. This means the lower the rate, the higher the price.
As is plainly evident, since the financial world turned on its ear in 2007, international investors have continually poured more and more money into our debt.
Contrary to Woodward's world view, this means that people with real money - maybe not the folks he hangs out with - do indeed see America as the grown-up.
If they didn't, they'd be piling out of our debt with both hands.
On the other hand, assuming the great-unwashed around the world aren't pleased with America, wasn't the election of Barack Obama going to change all that?
Didn't folks like Matthews and Woodward claim the junior senator from Illinois was going to radically improve our nation's level of respect across the globe?
Not at all surprisingly, this didn't come up during this discussion of the world not seeing America as the grown-up nation anymore.
Must be because that's George W. Bush's fault despite him being out of office for two and a half years.
Forgive me for even mentioning it.
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OK Bob, how about giving us
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:01am.
OK Bob, how about giving us an example of a 'grown up' nation..........and since you ARE an American, where do YOU fit in this category???
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Really Bob?
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:04am.
What is the world going to do without the USA? As far as worldwide grownups is conserned, the Obama Admin is the most inept in generations. Mostly because the CIC is way above his pay grade.
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The Thomas Friedman Elitist Method
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:24am.
Say crap like this and the liberals ooh and ah over your "worldly sophistication".
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You mean all that bowing...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:34am.
...and a$$ kissing that Barry Soetero Hussein Obama did with 2nd and 3rd world despots hasn't paid off? I'm Shocked!
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Submitted by Indie Dude on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 2:23am.
How does one man, or one group of Libs sum up the feelings for billions of people around the world about America? Really Mr. Woodward?
This kind of "journalism" lacks credibility. Only the numb would buy into what Mr. Woodward is saying.
These Libs, each day they are exposed in the new media (N.B.), the more we see just how stupid these people really are.
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In Fairness Bob Woodward Is Absolutly Right.
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 2:57am.
Faced with an example of American like Bob Wodward would you believe he came from a mature contry. I also don't think that Bob Woodward would catch on when they explained to him that any mature country would execute a journalist who pulled what he did in Watergate.
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Well he's right on one account
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 4:29am.
Woody here I think inadvertently makes a point but not so much American society for the most part.
We have a child in man's clothing as a president. A bunch of liberal lackies that work for this child who act less mature than him or even a common fifth grader. The people that this child president associates himself with believe in solving their problems through bullying, violence, and screaming.
Oh and the Americans that voted for this child refuse to grow up and get a job, or at least a real job, are less "grown up." The blindness adulation they give this child is all the evidence anyone needs at this point. So thanks Woody for getting us conservatives to think even if you choose to generalize our country without provocation.
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Woodward is clueless
Submitted by NL207 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 4:37am.
He sees foreigners erecting statues glorifying Ronald Reagan. He sees that foreigners hold America in little regard. He concludes America is not a mature country.
Woodward's logic escapes me. Perhaps he would do well to ask of Obama's Presidency has anything to do with America's poor reputation overseas.
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Yeah and he sees
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 8:48am.
that the country of Georgia has named one of their main freeways after who?
You guessed it "George W. Bush."
So he knows more than he's leading on but you're on the money about his warped logic, clueless for sure;)
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Obama's Ambassador to GB didn't deign to attend
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 9:21am.
I'm still chapped over that one.
If anything is to blame for our "loss of esteem" worldwide it is the Obama administration's abysmal bungling of our foreign policy.
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I wonder if that was a slap
Submitted by Gat New York on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 9:54am.
I wonder if that was a slap at Obama. It depends on what he means by "long time."
I agree that within 6 months after Obama came to office the world view of the USA changed dramatically and we are not respected. Allies have come to the conclusion that under Obama the USA cannot be relied on at all.
I never got a sense that Woodward was an unapologetic tool of the left wing like that no-talent second-fiddle partner he once had - Carl Bernstein.
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Woodward is a liar and probably a racist!
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:04am.
We've been told by our State Department and the MSM that President Obama has restored international respect for the United States of America.
They've told us that through intelligent , science-based/fact-based policies, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has mended the frayed ties with our allies, reached out to the Third Word, and improved relations with the Islamic world.
Obama has repaired our "brand" -- so severely damaged by the Cowboy Bush-43 -- as he leads us into a new age of global Hope & Change.
So, Woodward is obviously wrong, and his dismissal of the President's great accomplishments is biased and probably racist.
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Bet this makes Obama's hemorrhoids flair
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:33am.
Notice who published the story, certainly NOT an American news agency
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Spread the news
Submitted by Franksam on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 6:06am.
Perhaps his comments will discourage the poor fools from all over the world who want to not only live here, but want to be American. You would think that immigrants would know how poorly minorities are treated here, and stay as far away as possible.
Bob deserves a mature environment, like a nursing home.
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Gotta really object to this plot
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 6:44am.
In late 2010 and 2011, the Fed bought a lot of our Treasury debt http://dailyreckoning.com/files/2010/11/DRUS11-15-10-1.gif. You cannot rely on this being market stability when for the last year the Fed has bought a huge percentage of our debt.
Look at which group (liberals and conservatives) behave as grown-ups in the US. By far, the more mature behavior is from the conservatives.
The rest of the world (Europe especially) are a bunch of children. Who cares who they think are adults. You look at the emerging countries, like Poland. They like and admire Americans until BHO sold them down the river on missile defense as his "legacy".
Dennis Prager
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Say it ain't so, Bob!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 6:56am.
I thought The One was going to restore our standing in the world!
I wonder why it hasn't happened....
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Submitted by adamsmith on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 7:50am.
Just another America Hater from the Left. I thought Comrade Obamalinsky was going to make us loved by the world again, after Cowboy George made them all hate us. Under Bush we had allies in Israel, the UK, Poland, Czech Republic, and I don't know whom else he has tossed under the bus. Our enemies laugh at how stupid he is, weakening the country that elected him. I think you could rightfully conclude that the Left lives in their own little imaginary world.
When Bush was in office unemployment was around 4%( basically full employment) the entire eight years, we had 54 straight quarters of economic growth after his leadership got us moving forward from the Stock Market collapse under Clintoon, and businesses did not fear the government for their survival. AND Bush was a Progressive Republican who spent way too damn much trying to keep the Left happy. I can only imagine having a President who is business friendly and Pro American. We'd be unstoppable with a guy or gal like that.Right about now I have Archie and Edith Bunker's voices singing "Those were the Days" in my head. America has been upside down since Gore failed to concede. The Commies have been on fire ever since....
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...And Bob Woodward is an expert because?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 8:49am.
Who cares what the rest of the "world" thinks?
Without this country and its freedoms, Bob and the rest of the world would not be communicating via computers, cell phones, and all the other communication gadgets out there.
Without this country perhaps Bob and certainly millions of other people would not be as healthy as they are due to medical advancements made in this country.
Basically without the existence of this country, most of the world might be "governed by Nazi's and the Communists.
So Bob, WHO CARES what the rest of the world thinks? Without the U.S.A. life would be very unpleasant for the inhabitants of this world.
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Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 9:11am.
I don't have a lot of respect for other nations, so why would I care what they think of us? They may not lime us but they are certainly quick to take our money or our military protection to cover their a$$es. Only when that ends would I consider worrying about their opinions.
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Some truth there....
Submitted by Slyrr on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 10:34am.
It's hard to say he's wrong when he says American isn't the grown-up anymore. Could that be because....
a) The current occupant of the White House is a snivelling, arrogant man-child with no real world experience?
b) The current party running the show (Democrats) are all a bunch of aging hippies who never grew up?
c) The media are nothing but a bunch of lying turkeys, gobbling back and forth at each other and doing nothing worthwhile?
d) Hollywood (the primary image makers in America) is dominated by hedonistic perverts, given over to drugs, booze, whoredoms, vulgarity and the indulgence of their personal pleasures?
If we want to be grown-ups again in America, we must act like grown-ups. We must stop living like children, and more importantly, we must STOP electing childish people to positions of power.
'Shake thyself from the dust; arise and sit down in dignity O, Jerusalem. Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, o captive daughter of Zion.' - Isaiah 52:2
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not to worry Bob....
Submitted by Paarl on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:03am.
I havent thought of the Washington Post as a grown up fount of journalism f0r decades but as a mouthpiece of the left wing establishment..
Paarl of Rhodesia
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Woodward is to 'woody'
Submitted by firstname.lastname@example.com on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:20am.
As obama id to "d***"
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Submitted by retrocon on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:20am.
i don't care whether the world loves us or hates us...
As long as they respect our power, strength, and...
Oh, Obama is still in office?
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I love how these guys work...
Submitted by krendler on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:21am.
The tactic is: Attempt to give a negative opinion about the country or conservatives more credibility or import by packaging that opinion - not as YOUR opinion - but rather as the opinion of people "around the world."
Is that so, Bob? And how many people from around the world did you actually talk to about this? And what was their political orientation?
My guess is he talked or corresponded with some liberal pal in the UK and the guy bashed the U.S. Woodward liked what he heard and proceeds to talk like he's some big world traveler, just returning to the U.S. after taking the pulse of the rest of the planet.
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Tired, old-looking, he should know
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:56am.
Isn't tough love for kids--so if we don't get it, ergo...
Oh, never mind. Another gray eminence heard from.
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Wow -- Only took 2 1/2 years !
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 12:04pm.
Wow -- Only took 2 1/2 years !
(;~/ gary
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Gee and why might the world not view the US as grownups?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 2:09pm.
Could it be that we spend when we don't have? Or perhaps, it's the admin demonizing those they don't agree with and crying when someone doesn't agree with the administration?
You know, like: "You're a racist", "You're a TeaBagger", "You're a right wing extremist", "You are putting a pistol to the American peoples' heads for not wanting to spend what you don't have".
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The world doesn't see us as a
Submitted by AngryInOhio on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 5:23pm.
The world doesn't see us as a "grown up nation" because we don't have a grown up in the White House.
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I imagine Woodhead's travels
Submitted by Dan Diego on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 5:57pm.
I imagine Woodhead's travels are similar to Joe Wilson's fact finding trips. Hang out at high priced exclusive hotels, suck down drinks on the expense acct., talk with like minded elitists and seek the answers you want to "report".
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"...there's not even tough
Submitted by celator on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 7:24pm.
"...there's not even tough love for the United States"
This is a good example of the yellow journalism crap Woodward has been pushing his entire life. (remember his "interview with the dead former CIA director Bill Casey?). How does he know this? Where's the solid data? There's NO love for the US anywhere in the world? Nobody?
Probably not in the lefty radical literary salons in NYC and Washington.
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The world doesn't even think in those terms, Woody
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 7:29pm.
Bob Woodward is another Lefty bien-pensant, far above us riff raff. If he traveled in the lower spheres we nobodies travel in, he would find that most of the world still dreams of someday living in the USA. You'll not hear such folks talking about nations as "grown-up" or "infantile." Life for them is serious business, and America is one of the few places where a serious person can still prosper -- though Obama and Woodward and their high-flying acts are doing their best to change that.
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Woodward: Another anit-American Liberal
Submitted by rono on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:45pm.
What's new here? This guy hates this country, just like Barry and the DNC. I wish he'd just leave and move to Canada. He'd be happier and so would we.
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M. Sereno, R. Gaeta, "Generalized Probabilistic Flooding in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 2055-2062, December, 2011.
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I think this is a great idea and more restaurants in Danvill should participate...Less waste in our overloaded landfills.....And while were on the subject of food scrap recycling, I think it stinks that the people of Danville voted down the recycling of food scraps into our green recycling bins....Our we so lazy that it's too much trouble to do this. I hope we get a second chance to participate in household food scrap recycling in the future..We need to do all we can to insure our childrens children have a clean earth to live in...The less we dump in the land fill the better....
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You got it right - it stinks. Thats why after two weeks the little bucket they provided went into the recycle bin.
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The Mark Rothko Art Center opened on Wednesday 24 April in Daugavpils, Latvia, the birthplace of the late artist, whose work shattered auction records for contemporary art in 2012. His family has donated a small collection of original works by Rothko, which are on display.
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Hi. Some of you may know me as Destiny or Des. I was part of the Graphics League a little while back and was quite active in this section. I remember being champ at one stage (lol) and won't ever forgot some of the talent that we had around here. Well, It's great to see TC trying his best to get the graphics section active once again. He's doing a really good job. Some of banners are impressive and are inspired by TC, from what I can see. The tutorial from TC was a great idea and has improved the skill of some designers on here. Although, I would love to see people start to explore more when it comes to design and put their own style to their work. I feel as though your work should represent your own vision by trying to make it your own. There are some talented designers from what I have seen and I feel as though you will grow if in terms of 'design' if this section is active from now on.
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"Northern Pass stands alone as the only project in New England that requires no customer subsidy and will bring clean, low-cost hydro power along with direct and substantial economic benefits to New Hampshire," he said.
Conservation Law Foundation staff attorney Christophe Courchesne said TDI New England's proposal "dispels many of the misleading arguments Northern Pass has made for avoiding taking the project underground that would make it much more acceptable to communities."
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A Social Workplace Starts with Culture and Engagement
Posted on November 18th 2011
Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure of appearing on Digital 411, an internet technology radio show. During the show, I discussed the impact that social technologies can have on HR transformation and employee engagement. There was so much interest in this topic that I didn't have time to respond to all of the questions asked. Here are the questions that sparked the conversation along with my responses.
In your Social Knows: Employee Engagement statistics, you indicate that 52% of organizations using Web 2.0 achieved Best-in-class performance and an 18% increase in engagement. Help us contextualize and understand stats around achieving higher employee engagement using Web 2.0? What does that mean and what are some of the most significant tools being used?
Using a social network won't change anything unless it's a part of a set of tools serving a more global approach aimed at improving culture, performance, communication and productivity.
- Collaboration sites: Sharepoint
- Internal twitter and threaded conversations: Yammer, Socialcast
- Video sharing: YouTube
- Mobility and Access: extranets, mobile access
- Intranet enhancements: RSS feeds, social tagging, social sharing, employee profiles, content bookmarking
In your experience, what does a fully engaged employee look like, feel and experience, in comparison what a disengaged employee looks and feels like?
According to Gallup there are three types of employees:
Actively Disengaged – employees who aren't just unhappy but want everyone else to know that they are. These are the employees who are bored and frustrated, make sarcastic jokes and speak poorly about the company and its leaders.
Not Engaged or Passively Engaged – employees who are checked out. Sleeping walking through their day and don't actively contribute to new ideas or thoughts. These employees feel underutilized, spend work time taking care of personal needs, do just enough to get by or to not get in trouble, and are present for the "paycheck." Believe it or not, 72% of US workers are not engaged in their work. Defined as essentially sleep walking throughout their day. (Gallup)
Actively disengaged and passively-engaged employees take more sick days, take more time than necessary to complete projects … bottom line… cost the company more money.
Engaged - [Note: on the show, I teased that an engaged employee was about 5 feet tall, wore 5 inch heels... Sound like someone you know?!] employees who work with a passion, are involved. Drive innovation and move the organization forward.
- Commit to company, work group, and role. –
- Are proud of their company and what the company does, are clear about the desired outcomes of their role,
- speaks positively about the company when interacting with others.
- Takes personal satisfaction in the quality of their work
- Use their talents everyday:
- demonstrate consistent levels of high performance,
- Broaden what they do and build on it,
- participates in training opportunities.
- Stretch themselves beyond their comfort zone
- Show natural innovation and drive for efficiency –
- suggests cost-saving measure to their manager or
- seeks ways to streamline processes and introduces these ideas rather than waiting for someone else to do so
- Intentionally build supportive relationships –
- offer to serve as a mentor to another employee or
- volunteers to ease the workload of another employee
- Other traits:
- Emotionally commit to what they do and
- Work with high energy and enthusiasm.
- Find work can sometimes be stressful but also rewarding and fun
What are the dangers of a disengaged workforce?
- Employee morale
- Broken culture
- Loss of productivity
- Performance objectives not met and business goals suffer overall
What are the benefits for an employee and the enterprise to have an engaged or fully engaged workforce?
In a word: Many. But here are just a few benefits:
- Affiliation – When an employee feels connected to the organization and to each other they better understand their role and the impact they have within the company.
- Collaboration and Productivity – More than 66% of those managers who reported that they were motivated at work also claimed high productivity levels
- Company performance - Companies with high levels of employee engagement improved 19.2% in operating income while companies with low levels of employee engagement declined 32.7% (Towers Watson)
In your opinion and work, is employee engagement the next hot topic on which people are hopping on the band wagon to discuss and address?
Personally, I think employee engagement has always been a hot topic. The difference is that social technologies brings a much clearer and visual correlation between the level of employee engagement and organizational performance. From an HR standpoint, employee engagement also means enhancing employee satisfaction, increasing productivity, reducing redundancies, and driving unnecessary cost out of the business.
It's also important to remember that you can't FORCE engagement. You can make tools available to employees so that they can choose to be more engaged, but ultimately, the decision is up to the employee.
How can employers address issue of employee expectations in an effort to move towards developing or enhancing employee engagement?
Organizations need to keep up with the times and with the emerging workforce. New hires fresh from college are individuals who have always had the immediacy that internet and even social tools brings to them.
64% of all employers recruit from social platforms and 81% of college seniors look for jobs on them. Because we use social tools externally and sell ourselves as innovative companies to candidates, we are setting an expectation that social and interactive platforms are available tools internally. As companies, we tend to fall short on providing the same services to our employees as we do our customers.
So what can we do?
- Identify what comprises the employee life cycle for your organization and apply a social layer around those base camps to create a social, yet task-based employee experience
- Improve internal communications (frequency, transparency, cross-functionally and vertically down through functions)
- Accelerate training programs across a variety of management and technical areas
- Upgrade the performance management system with a sharper focus on developing objectives and improving documentation to support the evaluation process
- Phase out managers who, simply put, had been there too long or were wrong for the job.
The biggest challenge is to balance the demographics within your organization. Making new tools available to the emerging workforce while still maintaining (or gradually transitioning out) traditional tools that your existing workforce is using.
From your perspective, what kind of social media activity indicates engaged employees, and what are some of the other ways in which employee engagement can be measured or evaluated?
Social technology within an organization is all about informal interaction and engagement. Employees can communicate with each other throughout the day and at any time. Social technologies makes it easier to express ideas and knowledge, to make them visible and, ideally, viral.
You have to keep in mind that it's also a biased indicator of an engaged employee. Some employees will actively participate while there are others who won't. There are lots of employees devoted to their company, who are conscientious and committed but whose personalities prevent them from being overt in what they say and do. Their engagement is more discreet. Don't use social media activity as your single metric for employee engagement.
True engagement doesn't focus on activity, it focuses on how the employee feels.
Does the employee feel inspired when they get to work, do they feel connected to the rest of the organization and do they feel fulfilled with the work they are doing
What are some of the ways we can measure employee engagement?
Formal employee opinion surveys are a popular way to measure employee engagement. But some of the issues associated with EOS are:
- They are event driven by a yearly initiative
- Survey's don't really measure engagement, they only show outcome
- Little or no followup
- Results reported to executive team
Some other ways you can measure employee engagement:
- Read Benchmarking reports to identify strengths and weaknesses relative to your peers and map employee engagement to business performance.
- Perform pulse checks and develop a clear communication plan to prove efficacy of actions plans
- LISTEN to the conversation – pay attention to online chatter and listen to what potential, present and past employees are saying about your company
- Develop an Employee Engagement Score – Measure employee loyalty. Telus is a great example of a company that does this. They have something called the "likelihood to recommend" score which helps them understand how their employees feel about the company.
What's next for 2012?
If you think back, 2009 was all about Web 2.0, 2010 was about social media, 2011 was about social media in the workplace. Today, we need to focus on being social in the workplace.
But in order to do this, we need to shift our focus from creating siloed social platforms (e.g., a collaboration site here, an internal Twitter there) to transforming how we lead our organizations and communicate with our employees from a holistic standpoint. That is, consider the overall experience and using social tools to enable employees to improve their work and personal lives.
Effective integration of social tools means analyzing employee behavior and intersecting that with organizational needs, and revolutionizing traditional workplace programs such as:
- talent acquisition (how we find and hire new employees),
- talent management (how we maintain employees),
- performance management (how we recognize employees) and
- learning and development (how we grow our employees)
In general, it's innovative and encouraging to see so many companies tackling collaboration and productivity through the use of social technologies. But a connected enterprise doesn't automatically create an engaged workforce.
It's easy to create a collaboration portal, but it's much more difficult to make engagement a way of life in your organization.
PS: You can listen to the archived podcast of my Digital411 appearance on Talktainmentradio.com.
As companies expect collaboration, employees will be able to document their engagement by who and how they interact via company social media. If interaction is one of several evaluation criteria, employees will respond. People like Rob Cross at the Univ. of Virginia have been promoting for years the value of organizational network analysis. Engaged employees will use the new tools. Building relationships has always been important; now we have new tools.


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Britain's first gas-fired power- station that captures 90 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions is to be built by Powerfuel Plc, a mining and energy company, and Calix Ltd., an Australian cement manufacturer, the Financial Times reported.
The 10-megawatt demonstration plant, which should be operating within 12 months, will be located near Doncaster, northern England, the newspaper said.
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text: Curiosity's tracks captured in photo from above Science 07 September 12 by Adam Mann Tweet NASA/JPL/University of Arizona The above image shows a beautiful example of two spectacular robots at work: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 's HiRISE camera captured the Curiosity rover's fresh tracks on Mars.Curiosity started moving on 22 August, albeit very slowly, and is now only about a football pitch or so from its touchdown point at Bradbury Landing. The rover first got its wheels dirty roving over to several scour marks left by the landing capsule's rocket plumes, investigating the regolith and determining that it was probably made of a dark volcanic rock called basalt. The rover is headed to an area named Glenelg, which lies east of the landing area.Nasa engineers don't have a specific target date to reach this new area, as Curiosity has now stopped for about a week to undergo detailed testing of its robotic arm. The large arm has three tools for acquiring samples, including a drill and a scoop, and two science instruments: a camera for looking up close at the Martian soil and an X-ray spectrometer to determine its composition. Scientists are now looking for a good "sample playground" where they can test all these capabilities, scooping a bit of soil and analysing it in detail.In the meantime, HiRISE has provided several other incredible images from space of the Curiosity landing site, including its first colour photo of the rover's parachute crumpled on the ground.Another colour image shows the impact site of Curiosity's descent stage, now in colour. This is the final resting place of the hovering UFO-like platform that delivered the rover to the ground using the sky crane maneuver. The blue colour was added to enhance the contrast and bring out the blast area. Source: Wired.com Edited by Ian Steadman Comments Read more on Space Everything to do with space technology, exploration travel and cosmological research and discovery Technology Pyramid and human 'beehives' designed for Mars dwellers Science 'Let's fire penetration probes at Mars' says startup Technology This satellite offers military-grade imagery to the masses Science Get Hello Kitty to deliver a message from space Science How to walk on a comet without falling off Science 10 questions about Nasa's 'impossible' space drive answered Latest on wired.co.uk


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I believe we are researching for the same Rupp's. I am searching for information on Catherine, John and Verona's daughter and any descendants and ancestors. I am doing research for my sister's brother-in-law.
We are moving to the Monroe area in June. I'm willing to share any information I have.
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