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Full story: Send Skype a birthday card
Skype, the internet phone service, celebrates its third year in business on Tuesday 29 August. The company has organized a birthday greetings contest where the author of the best birthday card will get a cool prize. But if you’re a happy Skype user as I am for the past two years, email them at happybirthday at skype dot net and say “happy birthday” for the sheer pleasure of it, not just for the prize! And check out Skype’s thank-you to…
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Full story: Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 25-Aug-06
Addicted maybe, but users say BlackBerries improve life Announcing TechCrunch UK Apple recall on laptop batteries BBC Blogger joins Guardian as head of blogging Defra uses wiki as consultative tool Economist on the strange death of newspapers Five Ways to Be a Better Info Junkie with Topix.net French political party UMP wants its members to blog and podcast How MI6 brought down Richard Tomlinson’s blog Lulu aims to wag the internet ‘long tail’ Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 7 RC1 Music…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #166: August 24, 2006
Content summary: With guest co-host Heidi Miller; Northwest Airlines employee communication kerfuffle; Donna Papacosta asks is podcasting creeping into the business mainstream; business communicators in Second Life; Shel reports on the low state of employee communication and intranets; sex and geek marketing according to Kathy Sierra; Sallie Goetsch wants to know why you’re fans of this and any other podcast; laid-off Pegasus employees’ blog shut down; the music; and more. Show notes for August 24, 2006 Welcome to For Immediate…
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Full story: How to recognize the digital native
One theme Shel and I have discussed quite a few times on the FIR podcast is the different behaviours younger people exhibit in how they communicate compared to the traditional behaviours in the workplace. We have a terrific example – in FIR #133, Shel’s teenage daughter Rachel talks about how she and her friends communicate. It’s nothing like you see in the typical organization where email is the indispensible communication tool. Forget email for this generation. Don’t even think about…











