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Full story: Things that keep communicators up at night
If I were on the corporate, PR and/or internal communication teams involved in any of these current business situations, I’d undoubtedly be burning candles at all ends: As soon as Barclays Bank’s bid for ABN Amro Bank looked likely to be a done deal, out of the woodwork comes a consortium led by Royal Bank […]
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Full story: Second Life community calls Linden Lab to action
One question I often get asked when discussing Second Life from the business perspective is a tricky one: why do companies in Second Life put up with an environment where the infrastructure is continuously flaky? By ‘flaky,’ the meaning is generally related to things like slow connections to the Second Life grid, unexpected problems with […]
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #236: April 30, 2007
Content summary: Update on the “How to do everything with podcasting” book; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; book on tape meets RSS on iPod; blogging on behalf of a client and ghost blogging; study: influencers rely on the internet as a resource; blogger shuts down after Skype denies permission for name use: heavy handed […]
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Full story: Push the distributed communication envelope
Canadian blogger Mark Evans has a thoughtful post about how to communicate better. He talks about the tools – phone, email, SMS, IM, etc – and concludes that face-to-face is the be-all and end-all of communication between people. I don’t disagree, for some of the reasons Mark mentions: […] The ability to read body language, […]
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Full story: Dear God, no!
Yesterday’s Dilbert strip. Amusing yet eerily reflective of what actually does happen in some companies. Scott Adams is wickedly perceptive about organizations.











