Category: Communication

  • Multi lingua francas

    Three separate but possibly related things about language and culture. BL Ochman writes about an English-language dilemma: In WebProWorld’s Google forum today, (registration required) the publisher of an Irish travel site wonders whether Google penalizes for spellings in Oxford English…

  • The next wave at work

    A report in the Financial Times on social media in the workplace highlights some terrific examples from companies who talk about the benefits to be gained from deploying blogs, wikis and RSS. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: […] More than 450 DrKW…

  • Everyone has the exclusive

    At a press event for Saab’s new Aero X concept car: A Norwegian paper drags the car away to [a gas station] and the reporter gets incredibly upset when we join him. He says he’s got exclusive rights to the…

  • A promising future for intranets and social media

    “Make communications more exciting” is how I would summarize the sentiment of all who participated in the two Melcrum workshops on intranets and social media that I co-presented in London last week and in Manchester the week before. Indeed, that…

  • Extraordinary nobodies

    Catching up with email unread since last Wednesday (having been away), I start with one from Eric Eggertson which helps me get up to speed with the extraordinary tale of the nobodies. And what a tale! Starting from a rude…