Business Communication Headline News

Taming Internal Communications Clutter

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:02 PDT

Navigating through internal communication “whitewater” is a growing challenge in today’s business environment. Every day, we face a flood of messages and requests from multiple sources, making it increasingly difficult to manage the overload. As communicators, we need to get the right information to the right audiences at the right time. While [...]

One in Five Bosses Runs Web Checks on Job Hunters

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:02 PDT

One in five employers looks up social networking information on potential applicants, according to a recent survey. Job-hunting site Careerbuilder.com polled 3,100 people and found that companies are increasingly relying on a candidate’s social networking pages to determine whether or not to hire them. View the original here.

How to Write Successfully for the Web

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:02 PDT

Online readers love free information. They scour the Internet daily looking for specific information to solve their problems, help them be successful, live longer or get healthy. You should join the information revolution too! Publish your free, helpful solution-oriented articles to the web. View the original here.

An Introduction to Blogs and Wikis in the Business World

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:02 PDT

Indispensable business collaboration tools and a powerful means of communicating with customers, partners and employees, wikis and blogs have been compared to e-mail in terms of their potential impact on the enterprise. View the original here.

CHIMBY: A Career Advice Search Engine

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:02 PDT

CHIMBY is a vertical search engine that lets you search over 400 career advice sites at once. This engine crawls the sites of career coaches, career blogs and other media sources in order to provide the best answers to your career advice questions. Each source is hand-picked to ensure fresh, relevant results from an exclusive club [...]

Brain Controlled Cell Phones

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:00:02 PDT

A company called NeuroSky Inc, has built a prototype of a system that reads brain waves and uses them to control a mobile phone! They held a demonstration at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2008 in San Francisco last week. View the original here.

The Latest Advances in Collaborative Software, Part I

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:00:01 PDT

Sara Bocaneanu presents a comprehensive tour of the latest technologies to improve business collaboration. She discusses the corporate use of instant messaging, wikis, virtual worlds such as “Second Life”, top-end video conferencing, social bookmarking, and collaborative suites. View the original here.

Choose the Best Search Tool for Your Information Needs

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:00:01 PDT

This is a great guide for selecting the best search tools. View the original here.

A Very Different Way of Looking at the Words You Use

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:00:01 PDT

During recent serendipitous Internet surfing, I discovered Wordle. It’s really quite interesting and revealing if you use it to discover patterns and trends in your communication. To explain, here is the about us from the site: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words [...]

How Your Friends' Friends Can Affect Your Mood

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:00:01 PDT

Recent research shows that our moods are far more strongly influenced by those around us than we tend to think. Not only that, we are also beholden to the moods of friends of friends, and of friends of friends of friends–people three degrees of separation away from us who we have never met, but whose [...]