Category: Communication

  • Realities of the digital landscape illustrated in Eurocom survey

    Realities of the digital landscape illustrated in Eurocom survey

    One of the startling metrics in a global survey on how technology businesses use social media is one that shows one in five technology industry executives  – that’s 20 percent of those surveyed – saying that a job candidate’s social…

  • The Economist is asking how readers like to read the publication

    I’m a subscriber and +The Economist is the only publication where I get the print version each week and also read it digitally: online on the website, via the Android app on any of my mobile devices, and listening to…

  • Twitter hashtags: spam magnets

    One of the most useful engagement tools for a conference is a Twitter hashtag. This little device, where a word is connected to the hash symbol (#) – known as a pound sign in the US – is a useful…

  • 16 business podcasts worth listening to

    As a podcaster, I listen to quite a few other communication-related business podcasts. Finding good ones (always a rather subjective term) isn’t easy, though. I’ve previously lamented the lack of really compelling business audio other than radio that I can…

  • Public Relations redefined

    The search for a new way of defining what ‘public relations’ means has come to a conclusion after a lengthy public consultation process, a short list of three candidates from which to choose a winner, and the final public vote.…