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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.
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #235: April 26, 2007
Content summary: Luke Armour’s virtual PR murder mystery; Shel’s Toronto experiences; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; CIPR asks if PR qualifications are a necessity; are we taking too narrow a view about social media?; Gartner predicts 80% of internet users will use virtual worlds; voice coming to Second Life; Blue Cross pet charity launches […]