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Things that keep communicators up at night

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1 May 2007

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 of Scotland with a higher value counter offer that ABN Amro simply has to consider, if only from a regulatory viewpoint. Amid it all come…
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Business, Technology, Virtual Communities

Second Life community calls Linden Lab to action

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1 May 2007

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 the software running on your PC, a poor user experience for many, and of course, the weekly grid downtime every Wednesday for half a day…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #236: April 30, 2007

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1 May 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 and a missed PR opportunity?; Forbes’ organization chart wiki; discussion: the development of media training; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more. [Message from our…
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Communication, crayon, Technology, Virtual Communities, Workplace

Push the distributed communication envelope

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30 April 2007

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, facial expressions, intonation, etc. makes person-to-person communications work and work well. It can also change the tone of a relationship. Think about how a long…
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Blogging, Humour, Workplace

Dear God, no!

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27 April 2007

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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