Month: March 2013

  • FIR Book Review: Civility in the Digital Age by Andrea Weckerle

    Andrea Weckerle was an FIR Interview guest in January 2010, discussing CiviliNation, the organization she co-founded to promote civil behaviour online. Now, as part of that effort, she has written Civility in the Digital Age, a review of the issues…

  • The demise of two RSS readers marks the passing of an era

    Yesterday, Google announced the sunsetting of eight products and services in a move they described as a second spring of cleaning. The one that is making headlines across the social web is Google Reader, the browser-based tool that aggregates and…

  • Papal perspectives from a citizen-reporter priest

    The eyes of many throughout the world are focused on the Vatican in Rome at the moment, as one hundred and fifteen members of the College of Cardinals deliberate in a papal conclave behind closed and locked doors to choose…

  • Make your website actually work

    When was the last time you checked your website to ensure that it’s effectively supporting your business goals? In this age of social communication that’s rapidly evolving as tools and channels like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Vine become part of…

  • Humour in Adobe’s Cloud

    Buzzwords, precision in analytics and measuring ROI are topics featuring in a trio of humorous online videos that software maker Adobe has been using to raise awareness of key aspects of its Marketing Cloud product and drive traffic to its…