Reuters: Office, Microsoft Corp.’s collection of programs for business documents and tasks, is fast becoming a software platform unto itself. A growing number of software developers are creating programs that run on top of Office, in the same way that Office and thousands of other applications run on Microsoft Windows. […] It was the vast […]
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Website usability lessons still to learn
Via Boing Boing, I came across an interesting report on how people react to advertising when visiting websites. No prizes for guessing the most hated advertising technique – pop-up ads. The report by Jakob Neilsen shows the 11 most hated advertising techniques. My current ‘favourite’ is in there – sites that automatically start playing voice […]
Euronext moves on London Stock Exchange
Wall Street Journal (paid sub req): Euronext NV has made a preliminary approach to the London Stock Exchange PLC about a possible bid for the London exchange, the companies said Monday. “The approach is at an early stage and therefore does not require a response at this point,” the London Stock Exchange said. In Amsterdam, […]
New cards gapingvoid style
Business cards are essential, as everyone knows. Since my start up in November, I’ve relied on home-produced cards, printed out on my desktop printer using good template card stock from Avery. Not bad. Cheap and cheerful. Yes, but a bit boring. So I’ve ordered some new business cards that will have one of Hugh McLeod’s […]
The final frontier of cellphone-free travel
Last week’s news that in-flight wi-fi is here and plans are in hand to let you make mobile phone calls while flying seems to have displeased lots of people in the US. Engadget reports that less than a week after word surfaced that the US Federal Communications Commision is considering dropping its ban on inflight […]
Interesting developments with Skype
I’m a big fan of the Skype internet phone service, as I’ve written about many times previously (here and here, for instance). I use it a great deal, both for business and personal use. The free service is obviously good from a cost point of view. But it’s the paid service (SkypeOut) that is most […]
Listen to your search results
BBC News: A Scottish firm is looking to attract web surfers with a search engine that reads out results. Called Speegle, it has the look and feel of a normal search engine, with the added feature of being able to read out the results. Scottish speech technology firm CEC Systems launched the site in November. […]
WebProNews re-publishes NevOn content
Through an informal agreement, tech news portal WebProNews has started re-publishing some of my posts on their news site. Here’s the first re-published post. I was more than pleased to make this agreement when WebProNews asked if they could re-publish some of my content. It is an informal arrangement – I am not receiving any […]
Podcasts for communicators to launch in January
Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, the new podcast weblog by Shel Holtz and I: Starting in January, Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz – two communicators who think they have something to say that you might find worth listening to – start their weekly podcasts. Shel’s in Concord, California, and Neville’s in Amsterdam in The Netherlands. […]
The Number One Hot Prediction for 2005
I’ve resisted the temptation so far to make a list of blog-related predictions for 2005. Everyone does lists and I’m sure what I might say wouldn’t be that different from what I see many communicators and others saying. But, catching up with scanning my RSS feeds last night, I read Media Guerrilla’s 2005 Predictions by […]
Top ten reasons for using RSS
I came across a very good post today about the benefits of RSS that neatly complements what I wrote the other day about understanding RSS from the non-tech view. Marnie Webb at Extension 337 writes about the ten reasons why non-profit organizations should use RSS. Valid indeed, and which I think will apply for any […]
Journalists and bloggers can learn from each other
Two very thoughful articles by Steve Outing of PoynterOnline explain in some detail what journalists can learn from bloggers, and vice versa. US focused of course, but every practical point Steve includes in his articles is valid for any blogger in Europe, too. Take a look: What Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers: Blogging isn’t just […]
Thinking time for PeopleSoft employees over Christmas
It’s time for PeopleSoft customers and employees to start thinking about the future and about protecting their own interests, because nobody else is going to be watching out for them, says an eWeek report. Benevolent or paternalistic aren’t words that have ever been seriously associated with Oracle or with its founder and CEO, Larry Ellison. […]
FT highlights example of blogs for internal communication
Today’s Financial Times has a report on corporate blogging that includes an excellent example of a European company using blogs for internal communication: Some companies, uncomfortable with the openness of public blogs, use them as an internal communications tool. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the German investment bank, has set up about 120 internal blogs to promote […]
Season’s Greetings!
Just two days until Christmas Day and time for me to sign off for the holiday. I promised my wife I would not put blogging fingers to keyboard during this time; instead, I would wholly focus on my family. So I will try to keep that commitment. Wishing everyone all the very best for a […]
Statistics matter little to the bereaved
Back in Amsterdam after spending the Christmas break with family and friends in the UK, and my first post is concerned only with the deepening tragedy in Asia following Sunday’s earthquake and resulting tsunamis. This has been widely reported just about everywhere. The best online reporting I’ve seen is on the BBC News site – […]
Rolling out the catch-up recipe
One of the exasperating things about being away and wholly offline for a week is the catch-up required when you get back. This used to mean reviewing the 300+ emails that arrived when you were offline for that time. My recipe for that is quite simple. There’s no way you should spend the time going […]
Gmail invitations
I have 6 Gmail invitations up for grabs. If you’re in the communication business – PR, marketing, employee communication, or related fields – and would like a Gmail account, leave your request here as a comment and I’ll send you an invitation. Just to be wholly clear – please leave your request here: don’t send […]
The tragedy really begins to unfold
Reviewing my various RSS feeds, I’m literally taken aback by the sheer volume of commentaries about the Asia earthquake/tsunamis disaster by bloggers. One feed in particular captured my imagination – first-hand accounts by Evelyn Rodriguez in Crossroads Dispatches. Evelyn was in Thailand on holiday and was caught up (and injured) in the tsunami there. She […]
Blogging: It’s the real thing
A highly-readable and lengthy feature on blogging is in the 10 January issue of Fortune magazine, as part of its look at the 10 technology trends to watch in 2005. Blogging is number 1 on Fortune’s top 10 list: Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they’ve become a force business can’t […]