Category: Communication
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Think of the small screen as a new canvas
Reviewing some of the reporting and commentary from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, it’s clear to see that this is heaven for gadget geeks. I wish I were there! New mobile devices abound, either launching very soon…
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Quit smoking with Twitter
Or more precisely, with Qwitter, a neat idea from TobaccoFreeFlorida, an advocacy group in that US state dedicated to raising awareness of health and other issues related to smoking. Note I didn’t say this group is anti smoking. It is,…
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Carl Icahn coming soon
Billionaire financier Carl Icahn is about to start blogging on corporate governance. Well, at least a site is up with a single post on January 31 saying "Blog coming soon." An RSS feed is ready, along with an email subscription…
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Banning ‘coterminous stakeholder engagement’
Any idea what that phrase means? It’s a good example of the type of jargon that you still encounter in much of the business world. But it’s not only the business world that’s awash with pompous words and phrases that…
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DreamHost loyalty stretching a bit thin
I’d planned to do a bit of blog admin this morning including upgrading all my WordPress blogs to the latest version 2.3.3, released earlier this week. Plans scuppered, though, by a long service outage at DreamHost, the company I use…