Category: Workplace

  • On the death of a mainstream medium

    It’s an astonishing end to a newspaper that published its first edition in 1843 and grew to become the biggest-circulation English-language weekly newspaper in the world, with a readership averaging close to 7.5 million in 2010. That newspaper is the…

  • No-fuss perspectives: Social Media @ Work

    Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable. Block out 15 minutes of your time to watch a story, a corporate video with a difference. Watch it full screen in high definition and turn up the sound a little. Ready?…

  • Social Media @ Work premieres June 17

    In March, I interviewed David Ferrabee, Managing Director of change management consultancy Able and How, and Robin Block, Director of Red Sky Vision, in an FIR Interview podcast about an innovative new video the pair were working on that addresses…

  • The trouble with Dell’s Vostro V130

    For the past four months, I’ve been enjoying my time with a Dell Vostro V130 laptop computer as a participant in Dell’s #tradesecrets marketing campaign for the machine that Dell ran during the first quarter of this year. This Animoto…

  • Salesforce and Radian6 combination signals social media ecosystem consolidation

    Yesterday’s announcement that Salesforce.com has offered to acquire Radian6 for $326 million strongly suggests that an embryonic social media ecosystem is evolving from a monitoring/analytics tools and services landscape that, broadly speaking, is immature, fragmented and piecemeal and ripe for…