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Commenting: A matter of perspective

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27 February 2017

One of the great benefits offered by the social web is the open way in which people can connect, not only via the obvious means of social networks but also through engaging in discourse and conversation in the commenting sections of websites, blogs, etc. Open conversation and the sharing of different points of view are foundational activities for many online publications, from mainstream media sites to individual blogs. To many, enabling readers, visitors and communities to comment on articles, reports,…
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Business, Communication, Podcasting, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Small Data Forum, Social Media, Society, Trends

Narrative versus Fact – the ‘asymmetric information warfare’

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15 February 2017

In mid 2016, the first episode of a new business podcast was published that set out to address a timely matter facing all of us today: How do you make Big Data less intimidating, more actionable and thus more valuable? That is the question at the heart of the Small Data Forum, an initiative by LexisNexis Business Insight Solutions to listen, learn, share and educate ourselves and others who grapple with the challenges of the information avalanche. The Small Data Forum…
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Artificial Intelligence, Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Hardware, IBM, Innovation, Marketing, Public Relations, Society, Technology, Trends, Workplace

How to put AI into cognitive perspective

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24 January 2017

Among the big topics that will dominate the news in 2017, a prominent one will undoubtedly be artificial intelligence or AI. It’s a huge topic, one that gathered momentum in 2016 to grab our attention and showcase both opportunity and risk with news and opinion often focused on a dystopian future that has plans to eliminate jobs currently done by human beings and replace them with robots. (Or maybe not.) Wherever you look, there’s so much differing opinion on the impact of AI and…
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Blogging, Hardware, Reputation, Software, Technology, Web, Weblog Tools, Weblogs

How to make your blog a secure and trusted place

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22 January 2017

If you run a self-hosted blog – like WordPress, for instance – now’s the time to enhance your confidence and that of your visitors and community in its security and trust. While this is mostly about data security, it’s also about search engine optimization and search results ranking by Google. I’m talking about enabling https, the secure form of http (hence the ‘s’) that offers important benefits: In its popular deployment on the internet, HTTPS provides authentication of the website and associated web server…
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Artificial Intelligence, Business, Communication, FIR Podcast Network, Podcasting, Politics, Public Relations, Social Networks, Society, Technology, Trends, Web

Topical issues for business communicators right now

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4 January 2017

On Monday January 2, I had a blast being a guest co-presenter on the For Immediate Release (FIR) podcast episode 68 with Shel Holtz, CC Chapman and Dan York. Over the course of a lively 97 minutes – FIR podcasts always go for the long listen – we discussed, debated and opined on topical issues that are on the attention-agenda for many communicators. Here’s the headline list of what we discussed: The incoming press secretary for President-Elect Donald Trump has…
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