Category: Social Media
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My week in media
A meme started doing the rounds among some mainstream media types last August on what some people do and read online. I hadn’t seen it until a post by Drew Benvie included me among those he tagged. So in the…
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Communicating for leadership
Three useful resources about leadership communication: The December 2007 edition of the IABC Cafe2Go podcast includes an interview I did with Jay Coleman, chair of IABC’s Excellence in Communication (EXCEL) Award. Topics discussed include a leader’s communication role, some of…
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Political influencing just had a major shift
In the blogosphere, you’ll always hear talk about how people who write blogs or otherwise use social media can wield some influence in affecting the opinions of others. There is plenty of evidence to indicate that social media does have…
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Does the government really want to hear what you think about climate change?
An interesting discovery: Phil Woolas, the Minister for Climate Change – I never knew we had someone with this portfolio – writes a blog called Bali Diary. He started it in mid November. Woolas works at the Department for Environment,…
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Making up the rules as we go along
This week’s Economist has a thoughtful leader story on the etiquette of telecommunications. The leader writer talks us through the evolving forms of communication since the 19th century as a parable of manners from Victorian dentists to modern airlines. That…