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Think of the new Gmail/Google+ features as part of the identity jigsaw

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16 January 2014

Last week, Google announced the addition of an interesting new feature to Gmail – the ability for people you know on Google+ to email you even if they don’t have your email address. And vice-versa. I first heard about it through seeing posts and reports galore about “how to disable Google’s new Gmail feature,” clearly suggesting that an awful lot of people see this as something really bad and to be avoided. In fact, I’m ok with the idea as…
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“AMP Up Your Social Media” joins the FIR Podcast Network

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15 January 2014

The FIR Podcast Network is pleased to announce the addition of a podcast on social media marketing that will begin in late January 2014. Presenter Glenn Gaudet explains… What is the role of social media in marketing? How do companies take advantage of this fast growing medium? What strategies do leading practitioners use to get results? What do industry insiders see coming up on the radar? How do companies engage stakeholders to be part of their social media marketing efforts?…
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Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Workplace

Re-Defining Today’s Communicator

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14 January 2014

Two weeks into 2014 and much of the talk about what’s hot and what’s not for communicators is about technology. Of the many, many tech topics that appear on trends and predictions lists, there are three that I believe warrant our attention in early 2014 above all others: Mobile: especially usage shifts and trends such as BYOD, the mobile cloud, and the “appification” of the workplace and business generally. Collaborative economy: access to and/or use of an asset – a…
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #738: January 13, 2014

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13 January 2014

In the FIR Podcast Network: ‘AMP Up Your Social Media with Glenn Gaudet’ joining the FIR Podcast Network, Chuck Hester interviewing Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen on ‘Linked Conversations,’ new episode of ‘TV@Work’ is up with Ron Shewchuk interviewing Erik Cullins, Director of Customer Success at ProofHQ; Laura Thomas is Dell’s new chief blogger: we’re interviewing Laura this week; book review of ‘How to get a job in PR’ by Sarah Stimson coming soon; Quick News: Bad weather provides latest…
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Business, Communication, Public Relations, Reputation, Software, Technology, Web, Workplace

Dropbox outage shows the fragility of the cloud

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11 January 2014

Cloud storage and file-hosting service Dropbox suffered a severe service outage this week that began on Friday night and, as I write these words on Saturday evening UK time, is still continuing. If you go to the Dropbox website, you’ll probably get only a screen with the headline ‘Error (500).’ That signifies some kind of server error. I say “probably” because on Twitter, Dropbox said the problem is resolved and the site is back up. I saw people tweeting that…
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