Category: Communication

  • Changing gears with IBM

    Changing gears with IBM

      I’ve been thinking a lot about social business lately. About what it is – broadly, focused on people (behaviours, mindsets) and organizations (culture, vision, leadership) – and about what it isn’t (an extension of, or level up from, social…

  • Ad-blockers: naughty or nice?

    Ad-blockers: naughty or nice?

    The issue of ad-blocking, and its impact on sustainable revenue, has been simmering for quite a while says guest author Justin Maxwell, founder and CEO of microdonations and micropayments platform tibit, who suggests one way of addressing the problem head…

  • Open Live Writer: a successor to Windows Live Writer

    Open Live Writer: a successor to Windows Live Writer

    One of the most useful software programs to come out of Microsoft in the past decade is Windows Live Writer, what I consider to be the best offline blogging editor for Windows. WLW first appeared in 2006, but since the…

  • Small is the new big with the Raspberry Pi Zero

    Small is the new big with the Raspberry Pi Zero

    Do you remember the days when computer magazines came with cover disks? And then with CDs that progressed to DVDs? All with must-have utilities and often free programs that were part and parcel of the PC enthusiast experience from the…

  • How to solve the ad blocking question

    If you run ad blocking software on your computer or mobile device, you’re either preventing the appearance of obtrusive, annoying ads that sometimes block content and add code that slows down the loading of the site you’re visiting, especially on…