Category: Communication

  • Better understanding Gartner’s hype cycles

    Over the years, IT industry analysts Gartner have published annual ‘hype cycle‘ reports that assess where specific technologies are going in the coming years. What’s hot and what’s not, in other words. Take the latest one on emerging technologies, for…

  • Links essential to trust of your online news source

    Say all you want about citizen journalism, fast-breaking news on Twitter that is way faster than the mainstream media, etc – when it comes to one online news source above all that you trust, that source for me is the…

  • Discreet tweets with the Dell Streak

    I sat in a darkened basement conference room at the Royal Aeronautical Society in Mayfair yesterday morning, listening to some terrific presentations and insights at the Echo Research ‘Fit for the Future 2010’ summit. Of the more than 100 people…

  • The rich learning experience that is social media

    If you’ve been business blogging for some time, or involved in social media for business since 2005 or thereabouts, you probably know about Kryptonite. The case of the Kryptonite bike lock and how it could be cracked open with a…

  • TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop: a tough choice

    Ever since TweetDeck appeared on the Twitter scene in 2008, I’ve been a user and a big fan. Since then, it’s been the primary way I interact with Twitter on my computer desktop. Even though I don’t use many of…