Category: Communication

  • Communicators meeting in Second Life

    For communicators who are looking to understand more about Second Life, here’s an opportunity – the first meeting of Second Life Business Communicators will take place in Second Life on Tuesday 22 August at 4pm PDT (that’s 11pm GMT): Please…

  • Communication and IT: Still an uneasy alliance

    Dee Rambeau presents a depressing workplace scenario that, in my experience, was all too common ten to twelve years ago as everyone began discovering the web as a business tool. The scenario is broadly to do with who makes decisions…

  • Speedo shows what podcasting can do for marketing

    For a good example of how an organization listens to informal feedback to help them quickly understand the potential benefits of a new-media tool like podcasting, take a look at what swimwear brand Speedo is now doing. Six weeks ago,…

  • It’s not good to Google in any language

    Do you Google? Everyone does, but Google would prefer that you didn’t use their trademarked name as a verb: Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra “don’t be evil”, has fired off a series of legal letters to media…

  • The Iranian president’s blog and devious intent

    When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenijad started a blog last week, it didn’t get an awful lot of meaningful attention in the English-speaking blogosphere. Perhaps it should have, if only to say that here we have the first blog in the…