Category: Workplace

  • The rich learning experience that is social media

    If you’ve been business blogging for some time, or involved in social media for business since 2005 or thereabouts, you probably know about Kryptonite. The case of the Kryptonite bike lock and how it could be cracked open with a…

  • Meet the Chief Listening Officer

    One of the things I hear a great deal of when in conversation with businesses about communication is how important it is to listen to what people are saying. I couldn’t agree more – you need to listen before you…

  • IABC/Buck survey offers employee engagement insights

    In June, the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and Buck Consultants published the 2010 IABC Employee Engagement Survey, the results of research on employee engagement strategies, the second year the two organizations have worked together on such research. Let…

  • XP: The OS that won’t die

    Microsoft announced yesterday that a public beta of the forthcoming service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is available for download. In his post yesterday, Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager at Microsoft, said that after only 7…

  • A guide to writing for the world

    Much of what we write these days is for publication electronically in some form. Email, text messages, Twitter, social network walls, blog posts, web pages, you name it, we’re writing it. With so many people writing so much stuff, often…