Category: Communication

  • Boris no longer the joker in the pack

    Who gets the last laugh? asks Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, in a summary yesterday of the campaign and result of the 2008 election for London mayor. As everyone now knows, Boris Johnson won the contest and officially takes…

  • Web 2.0 from the communicator’s viewpoint

      When I lead workshops, seminars and other professional development events that address social media and organizational communication, I always ask who’s heard of the term ‘Web 2.0.’ Usually, a reasonable number have, often as much as 20 percent of…

  • A nice little earner from mobile roaming

    Channel 4 broadcast a hard-hitting report on Monday by its Dispatches investigative reporting team on the UK mobile phone business. Allegations of sharp practices by mobile phone retailers (an outfit called Phones4U came under especially severe criticism), denial of responsibility…

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica goes social

    Like most bloggers I know, I tend to link to information resources online when I’m writing about a particular topic. One reason is simply that linking to an explanation of something provides a reader of your content with an opportunity…

  • Is business podcasting dead?

    Maybe the question is better phrased as: has the desire to learn how to produce podcasts for business died? I’m wondering this because two public events about podcasting I’d been due to speak at during the next month have been…