Category: Workplace

  • Facebook critique stretches credulity

     First it was Second Life that came under a microscope of criticism from the mainstream media questioning its business value. Now it’s the turn of social networking site Facebook. If a report from Australia is to be believed, Facebook costs…

  • YouSendIt delivers with desktop application

    For sending large files to people, email usually isn’t the best means. In some companies, there are limits to the size of file attachments that make it through corporate firewalls. Some block attachments of certain file types altogether. In any…

  • Sun Microsystems lowers the bar on financial communication

    Yesterday, Sun Microsystems reported their financial results for 2007. A routine communication activity for a publicly-listed company, with a press release, earnings call and presentation for the financial community, employee communication, interviews with journalists, conversations with shareholders, etc. Most definitely…

  • You are the presentation

    PowerPoints are not your presentation, says Bert Decker in a post that gets across a point that anyone who ever needs to communicate with a group of people should bear in mind – you are the presentation and the PowerPoint…

  • Do I get a Dell, a Sony or something else?

    I’ve held out but I now have to face the inevitable – my venerable IBM T30 Thinkpad laptop just doesn’t deliver the goods any more and I have to replace it. It’s been a terrific computer during the past four…