Category: Employee Communication

  • How transparent is wearable technology within the enterprise?

    In July, I took part in a public debate at the House of Commons about ethics in PR and wearable technology. Organized by The Debating Group and sponsored by the CIPR, the debate served a highly useful purpose of bringing…

  • Igloo Software joins FIR as our latest sponsor

    Please join us in welcoming Igloo Software as the latest FIR Podcast Network sponsor. Igloo, which offers a web-based platform for collaborating at work, will join Ragan Communications and CustomScoop as sponsors of The Hobson and Holtz Report. Through the…

  • Redefining today’s communicator in Norway

    When I look at the landscape of the communication profession around Europe, I see similar issues that concern communicators, most notably how strategic are communicators (and the profession itself), abiding by codes of conduct and practicing ethical behaviour, and being…

  • Re-Defining Today’s Communicator

    Re-Defining Today’s Communicator

    Two weeks into 2014 and much of the talk about what’s hot and what’s not for communicators is about technology. Of the many, many tech topics that appear on trends and predictions lists, there are three that I believe warrant…

  • The social networking workplace conundrum

    A conversation yesterday with someone whose employer blocks access to Facebook and other sites on the social web highlights a real conundrum with such bans, as Scott Adams perceptively illustrates in yesterday’s Dilbert comic strip. Many employers cite time-wasting as…