Category: Communication

  • Does the government really want to hear what you think about climate change?

    An interesting discovery: Phil Woolas, the Minister for Climate Change – I never knew we had someone with this portfolio – writes a blog called Bali Diary. He started it in mid November. Woolas works at the Department for Environment,…

  • Making up the rules as we go along

    This week’s Economist has a thoughtful leader story on the etiquette of telecommunications. The leader writer talks us through the evolving forms of communication since the 19th century as a parable of manners from Victorian dentists to modern airlines. That…

  • T-Mobile banning Twitter makes no business sense

    If you don’t understand it, don’t allow it. That could be the thinking behind why mobile operator T-Mobile has begun blocking Twitter usage in the US, and opening up a customer service debacle, not to mention a public relations one.…

  • Shades of grey

    Chip Griffin has a terrific post on Media Bullseye urging us to throw out the social media rulebook: Far too many of my colleagues who share a passion for the social media space treat this new media world more as…

  • Dopplr out of private beta

    Dopplr is a travel information service I’ve been trying out for the past few months in their private beta, courtesy of an invitation from Dan York. I like it a lot as it enables me to do this: Dopplr is…