Category: Communication

  • Spinning Vista and grassroots resentment

    So Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Vista will be delayed in its public release for consumers, not coming out until early 2007 instead of the expected later in 2006. Not surprisingly, this news has already attracted wide commentary in mainstream…

  • Social bookmarking for the enterprise

    Tagging and social bookmarking – two phrases much in vogue today as the means with which individuals can track information online and connect it with their own and other people’s interests. A new venture called Cogenz looks as though it…

  • L’Oreal snaps up British icon

    Now this is an interesting business acquisition, announced today: High Street beauty products retailer Body Shop has agreed to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal in a deal worth £652m. The offer of 300p a share from the…

  • Communication measurement 101

    I was reading some of the excellent commentaries posted in the new IABC Communication Commons series of blogs which launched last month. One gem in particular caught my attention – Connecting inputs to outcomes, a common-sense and concise view of…

  • Getting my interactive kettle online

    I had dinner last night with an old friend who’s in town for a few days on a business visit. Much of our conversation centered on social media, technology and the results of some of the developments we’re likely to…