Month: August 2006

  • Send Skype a birthday card

    Skype, the internet phone service, celebrates its third year in business on Tuesday 29 August. The company has organized a birthday greetings contest where the author of the best birthday card will get a cool prize. But if you’re a…

  • The CIPR ostrich

    The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) proclaims it is “the eyes, ears and voice of the public relations industry” in the UK. I think that’s rather worrying. It seems to me that those eyes, ears and voice are deeply…

  • Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 25-Aug-06

    Addicted maybe, but users say BlackBerries improve life Announcing TechCrunch UK Apple recall on laptop batteries BBC Blogger joins Guardian as head of blogging Defra uses wiki as consultative tool Economist on the strange death of newspapers Five Ways to…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #166: August 24, 2006

    Content summary: With guest co-host Heidi Miller; Northwest Airlines employee communication kerfuffle; Donna Papacosta asks is podcasting creeping into the business mainstream; business communicators in Second Life; Shel reports on the low state of employee communication and intranets; sex and…

  • How to recognize the digital native

    One theme Shel and I have discussed quite a few times on the FIR podcast is the different behaviours younger people exhibit in how they communicate compared to the traditional behaviours in the workplace. We have a terrific example –…