Category: Technology

  • FIR Interview – Pia de Gysser, CIO, Agria: September 5, 2006

    In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Neville enjoyed a 14-minute conversation with Pia de Gysser, CIO at Agria Insurance, an animal and crop insurer based in Stockholm, Sweden, recorded at the IBC Euroforum conference “The Web of…

  • Send Skype a birthday card

    Skype, the internet phone service, celebrates its third year in business on Tuesday 29 August. The company has organized a birthday greetings contest where the author of the best birthday card will get a cool prize. But if you’re a…

  • Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 25-Aug-06

    Addicted maybe, but users say BlackBerries improve life Announcing TechCrunch UK Apple recall on laptop batteries BBC Blogger joins Guardian as head of blogging Defra uses wiki as consultative tool Economist on the strange death of newspapers Five Ways to…

  • How to recognize the digital native

    One theme Shel and I have discussed quite a few times on the FIR podcast is the different behaviours younger people exhibit in how they communicate compared to the traditional behaviours in the workplace. We have a terrific example –…

  • Communication and IT: Still an uneasy alliance

    Dee Rambeau presents a depressing workplace scenario that, in my experience, was all too common ten to twelve years ago as everyone began discovering the web as a business tool. The scenario is broadly to do with who makes decisions…