Month: January 2009

  • Taking AddThis for a spin

    At the end of this post, you’ll notice a little image saying ‘share.’ If you move your mouse over it, it will expand and display the logos of a few place that you see here where you can share the…

  • Answering two questions

    A friend asked me two questions yesterday, about business communication-related issues in the coming year. Both came in direct messages via Twitter. Apart from everything else Twitter is, it’s also a tool that keeps you refreshingly focused on brevity and…

  • Your blog is your CV

    We call it a CV in the UK but it’s a good start to Robert Scoble’s 18+ tips in If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network. 1. Your blog is your resume. You need one and it…

  • Finding the enterprise RSS trigger

    Marshall Kirkpatrick writes a very interesting post at ReadWriteWeb entitled “RIP Enterprise RSS.” The essence of his argument is that demand for RSS simply never arose and that the market is over. I’m in the UK and largely agree with…

  • First report of Costa Rica quake on Twitter

    Last Thursday January 8, an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck Costa Rica in Central America. My wife Laura and I have a strong interest in Costa Rica as we have family there and, indeed, lived there during…