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Business, Communication, Social Media, Society, Trends, Workplace

Social media and a fundamental shift

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30 August 2009

Can social media change the rules of old-world business? Thatâ€™s a question Iâ€™ve been mulling over during the past week or so in thinking about how and where social media fits into an organizationâ€™s business planning as part of the array of communication tools and channels available to everyone today. Yet social media are simply tools and means that people use to connect with other people. They represent different ways of communicating than weâ€™ve been accustomed to, as well as…
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Communication, Employee Communication, Experiences, IABC, Leadership, Professional Development, Trends, Workplace

A conversation with Roger D’Aprix

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29 August 2009

A couple of days ago, I had the great pleasure of engaging in conversation with someone who has been a huge influence over the past twenty years in shaping a great deal of my thinking about organizational communication and employee engagement. That â€˜someoneâ€™ is Roger Dâ€™Aprix, a man who IABC named as â€œone of the most influential thinkers in the communication profession in the last 25 years.â€ We have one coincidence in our professional lives in that we both worked…
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Communication, Mobile, Society

The consequences of texting while driving

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29 August 2009

In the UK, using a mobile phone while driving is illegal. That applies to any use of a mobile device, whether to make/receive a phone call or a text message. A text message? Surely you wouldnâ€™t type texts when youâ€™re driving your car? Would you? Of course not! But if you do â€“ and itâ€™s more likely that you do in the US where there are no national laws against using mobile devices while driving, I hear from many American…
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Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Social Media, Workplace

Call to action to stop blocking

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29 August 2009

Two years ago, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz started a campaign called Stop Blocking as a means of drawing attention to a practice by some organizations to prevent access by employees to wide swathes of content on websites, blogs and other places online. During the past few years, Shel gathered information and published posts on the Stop Blocking blog highlighting what was going on in many workplaces. Companies everywhere are blocking employee access to the Net, fueled by questionable research…
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FIR Interview: Chris Brogan, "Trust Agents" co-author and president, New Marketing Labs

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28 August 2009

Chris Brogan is a well-known name in the social media world through his prolific blogging and speaking, his involvement with organizations like Izea and now with the book he has co-authored, Trust Agents. On the eve of the launch of Trust Agents, blogger Leah Jones questioned Brogan’s trustworthiness after he accepted a consulting assignment from Sony, a client with which he first made contact at the Consumer Electronics Show, which he was visiting as part of a blogger outreach campaign…
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