Year: 2012

  • Exploring the intersection

    Over the next four weeks or so, I have the good fortune to be involved with some great people and organizations in discussing a wide range of topics related to that intersection of business, communication and technology that is so…

  • Make your LinkedIn story a compelling one

    I spent a few hours this weekend on updating my profile on LinkedIn, the business social networking site. Most of my content changing went on the profile summary which is the first and sometimes only information about you a potential…

  • Tuning out the politics on Facebook

    Since joining Facebook in April 2007, one thing I like using it for is keeping in touch, sometimes connecting, with many American friends, colleagues and acquaintances. They’re typically a lively crowd, lots of commentary and opinion on topics of mutual…

  • Apple, Samsung and pots and kettles

    Apple’s lawyers had their day in the US last week in winning the Apple vs Samsung lawsuit over infringement of Apple’s software and design patents regarding the iPhone that saw Samsung ordered to pay Apple a billion dollars in damages.…

  • FIR Interview: Brian McNely on Instagram as a medium for image-power

    FIR Interview: Brian McNely on Instagram as a medium for image-power

    Brian J. McNely, an assistant professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program at the University of Kentucky, posted a pre-publication draft of a study he conducted on the use of Instagram to build an organization’s “image-power.” The methodology…