Category: Communication

  • Don’t just ban Facebook, provide guidance

    More businesses are restricting employees’ access to Facebook due to concerns about productivity and security. CNET News quotes research by security company Sophos which says that 43 percent of workers polled said their employer blocks Facebook access completely. There’s been…

  • Facebook critique stretches credulity

     First it was Second Life that came under a microscope of criticism from the mainstream media questioning its business value. Now it’s the turn of social networking site Facebook. If a report from Australia is to be believed, Facebook costs…

  • Skype outage and restoring confidence

    Even if you aren’t a user of Skype, the internet telephone service, you probably won’t have missed seeing or hearing about the total service outage during Thursday and Friday last week. Service came back up over the weekend and today…

  • Speaking at upcoming events

    I updated my list of speaking engagements as there’s quite a lot going on in September into October. I’ll be at these public events: Podcamp UK. Birmingham, England, September 1-2. The UK’s first podcamp. Running an unconference session on business…

  • Useful but user unfriendly

    One of the things I really like about DreamHost, the US company which hosts my sites including this blog, is the frequent and clear communication on what’s happening with their service. They have a status blog, but what I find…