Category: Workplace

  • Truth and consequences about trust

    On the basis that a picture is worth a thousand words, the chart below speaks loudly and clearly about the decline in trust in businesses that’s practically uniform in almost all the 20 countries included in the Edelman 2009 Trust…

  • Danah Boyd’s dissertation

    Danah Boyd is someone I discovered when I first got seriously involved with social media in 2004. She’s one of only a small handful of academic-focused people I regard as essential to pay attention to who I’ve followed since then.…

  • Answering two questions

    A friend asked me two questions yesterday, about business communication-related issues in the coming year. Both came in direct messages via Twitter. Apart from everything else Twitter is, it’s also a tool that keeps you refreshingly focused on brevity and…

  • Your blog is your CV

    We call it a CV in the UK but it’s a good start to Robert Scoble’s 18+ tips in If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network. 1. Your blog is your resume. You need one and it…

  • Finding the enterprise RSS trigger

    Marshall Kirkpatrick writes a very interesting post at ReadWriteWeb entitled “RIP Enterprise RSS.” The essence of his argument is that demand for RSS simply never arose and that the market is over. I’m in the UK and largely agree with…