Category: Business
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Edelman ramping up social media expertise
First it was Phil Gomes last August. Then it was Guillaume du Gardier in October. And then Steve Rubel this month (starting today, in fact). All three communicators, bloggers I know and major influencers in social media and PR, were…
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Four steps to overcome collaboration obstacles
A thoughtful feature in the Financial Times discusses the question of why in-house collaboration in organizations is so difficult, with the consequent impact on effective working. The article highlights some accepted theories about this, including these: [The first theory] is…
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The time is right for Naked Conversations
Robert Scoble reports a big upward blip in sales of Naked Conversations, the business book on blogging he co-authored with Shel Israel: I was talking with Richard Edelman yesterday (his blog is here) and he told me he bought about…
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AJAX patent absurdity
News that the US Patent Office has granted a patent to a software developer that gives him the rights to charge license fees for any application development that uses AJAX has not been well received by developers and others with…
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Big winners of iTunes promo
Alex Ostrovsky is one lucky fellow. He was the purchaser and downloader of the billionth song from Apple’s iTunes online store and has won the Apple promotion which ended yesterday. Drool over his prizes: One 20-inch iMac Ten 60Gb iPods…