TAG: communication
"Communications networks increase in value as they add membersâ€â€but by how much? The devil is in the details"
Tags: networks science communication
A breakdown of the different types of networkers: The "agenda", "pitch", "rolodex", "connector", "wanna be my friend?" and "personal relationship".
Tags: networking communication
It's the Conversation Economy, Stupid
As consumer markets fragment, marketers and designers must understand how platforms evolve and influence human behavior
Tags: conversation communication marketing design
"The following are the principles that I use to be a transparent company."
Tags: business communication transparency
"The love affair our culture has with communicating by keyboard has drastically reduced the amount we write by hand, so much so that the New York Times recently reported that the skill, "like an unused muscle," is pretty much dead by . . . High School."
Tags: culture technology communication
Ubicomp, everyware, spimes and clipes
"It all started with language, I guess. We named things, and by naming things we labeled them. Now we're giving the labels electronic voices in the form of tiny transmitters."
Tags: spimes rfid trend future communication
Wave v Particle Model of Messages
"The particle view of messages makes sense in our post-mass-media world where communications are dominated by one-to-one exchanges rather than broadcast blasts from centralized sources."
Tags: marketing communication business viral
"The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought."
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Is Mad. Ave. Ready To Go Naked?
"These brash Brits say they have the cure for what ails the ad business these days. Is Naked Communications a real revolution, or just Brand X in a new box?"
Tags: business advertising marketing communication planning
"Yes, they're efficient and good for business, if business is what you care about. But sitting at a computer when you don't have to is to be cripplingly passive, even if you're playing the bloodiest, most maniacal shooter game ever."
Tags: technology communication culture
In Praise of Radical Transparency
"Perhaps the most interesting of these is the shift from secrecy to transparency."
Tags: transparency identity privacy technology trust blogs communication
Cognitive Seduction and the "peekaboo" law
"Evolution has seen to it that the very act of searching for the hidden object is enjoyable, not just the final 'aha' of recognition--lest you give up the chase."
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Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation?
"Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly."
Tags: communication relationships lifehacks networking conversation
"You only have one reputation, and it’s yours to ruin."
Tags: pr communication culture marketing
Learning from the art of comics
Presentation lessons taken from Scott McCloud's The Art of Comics.
Tags: comics communication design presentation
"At Organic, we are thinking about the “11%� – reaching beyond the traditional opinion makers (the 1%) to speak to what we call the New Influencers – ordinary consumers who are finding their voice online in an assistive or synthesizing role."
Tags: marketing communication influence culture media2.0
The ONE key thing to know about negotiation
"In negotiation, the one thing that really strengthens your position is the ability to walk away from the deal."
Tags: negotiation communication tips lifehacks
Have strong opinions, but hold them weakly "because, otherwise, it undermines your ability to “see� and “hear� evidence that clashes with your opinions."
Tags: business change communication management ideas leadership
"If you believe that tools influence content, and I absolutely do, then the most important thing we can do with all this technology is to try to build tools that encourage meaningful expression."
Tags: technology creativity communication community relationships blogs
Russel Davies: "Blogs blur the line between employees as corporate mouth and employees as people. Blogs work best when they're expressions of real personalities, not when they're written according to corporate guidelines."
Tags: blogs business marketing communication
Creativity is a discipline of learning
"Most recently I have found myself asking if this vocation can move further, and lead us to create good in our world and communities. Can we do things beyond helping companies communicate?"
Tags: creativity design communication marketing
"This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. "
Tags: design icons communication rfid internet technology
"I will yell it from the rooftops, design is communication! Which means: design is writing, design is organization, design is usability, and on and on. Design encompasses much more than you think."
Tags: design communication
"Boss management can stimulate better performance, improve your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand and reap the rewards."
Tags: business communication management productivity
Powazek: Just a Thought: Death to User-Generated Content
"Calling the beautiful, amazing, brilliant things people create online 'user-generated content' is like sliding up to your lady, putting your arm around her and whispering, 'Hey baby, let's have intercourse.'"
Tags: marketing language communication passion internet
"Design is not solely visual. Those who believe it is, make an unconscious decision to confine themselves solely to craft. This limits these individuals from growing and taking on more complex and broad challenges."
Tags: design writing communication
"So how can we restructure value for advertisers and ourselves in the marketplace of conversation?"
Tags: media2.0 advertising business change marketing communication
It's Simple. Design Communicates.
"If you want design to have a strategic role in your organization- find an opportunity where design can be used for real communication and not mere styling."
Tags: design management communication
Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers
"Everyone becomes a programmer without even trying, and that programming can be socialized, shared, distributed, etc."
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How can the design of digital surfaces help engender trust?
"In other words, when we're presenting interfaces of tracks or radio programmes or books that people have a relationship with, how do we represent those relationships and patterns of usage at the surface layer?"
Tags: design communication culture ux usability
Hacking the Human OS: How we learn
" According to Richard E. Mayer, before any message or new idea will be fully understood, a person must go through three learning phases: I like to call them select, construct, and connect."
Tags: brain learning communication posted
From Communication Nation: "Here's a compilation of "how-to" posts from this blog that can help you be more effective in business situations:"
Tags: business howto tips communication posted
"They may not tell you, but clients expectâ€â€even demand things from the creative firms they work with. Learn how to meet and exceed those expectations."
Tags: business communication design process marketing projectmanagement tips posted
when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues
"The RIAA (and other such organizations) have been so successful at getting their media distributed that they have become culture. In turn, this means that they are the building blocks in which communication occurs."
Tags: remix communication copyright media posted
The four toughest talks in business
"All tough conversations put you on the defensive. Your job is to switch to offense and work toward a solution that satisfies both sides. To do this, you must understand four truths of tough talks"
Tags: business communication management posted
"Slawesome lets you send emails with your voice. That rules."
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It's not what it is, it's what it enables
"Let me state the obvious: the real value of blogs and wikis is not the tool itself. It's what the tool enables. Sadly, many advocates overlook this simple fact."
Tags: blogs communication posted technology
"So, the real value of communicative technologies like social software is that they re-enable and enhance our ability to use a time-tested means of information processing, i.e. the conversation, in new and interesting ways!"
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"OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept."
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How to handle an emotional conversation
"If people worked like web browsers (thank god they don’t!) you could just check the “history� button or look at the log files and figure it out. Since people are biological beings (thank god they are!), you need to take a more biological approach."
Tags: management communication emotions posted tips
MySpace: Is 'ghetto' a design choice?
"From a design perspective we have to look at it as a failure, but obviously it's not. Why is that? Why hype ugliness?"
Tags: communication design socialnetworking myspace posted
A look at the different ways people in London, Paris and Madrid use their mobile phones.
Tags: mobile communication europe london madrid paris research culture posted
Stop your presentation before it kills again!
Creating Passionate Users: "Sometimes the best presentation is... no presentation. Ditch the slides completely."
Tags: communication design presentation tips posted
NYTimes: "Alienation is the only intelligent response to a political culture that insults our intelligence."
Tags: nytimes media politics communication posted
Messaging spreads office gossip
One in five people in the UK are using instant messaging at work but the majority of firms are failing to regulate its use.
Tags: research business communication im posted
British men are almost twice as likely to use their mobile phones for talking compared with women, who prefer to text, according to research on Wednesday.
Tags: mobile gender culture communication posted research
The No. 1 Gesture That Sparks Love
There's almost nothing sexier for a man than when a women looks him straight in the eye and holds that gaze.
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Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too?
Plasticbag.org: "A question I think we should be asking is how could we build services that let you decide precisely which groups of people should be able to see, link to, 'trackback' or comment on the work you do in a decentralised, disaggregated way?"
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Far Apart but Intensely Connected
Wired: ""This idea that you could connect and be able to share your totally trivial, day-to-day events with your partner in almost real time -- if not real time -- is probably one of the biggest impacts technology is going to have on long-distance relatio
Tags: relationships technology communication posted
Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel
John Paul II on the internet from the 36th World Communications Day
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Gender Differences in Spoken and Written Communication
"One study that she references found that reviewers could guess the gender of the author of a paper with 75% accuracy."
Tags: culture im communication language gender posted
Email, Scale-Free Networks, and the Mobile Internet
Using e-mail rather than SMS as the messaging medium for mobile phones has made mobile Internet services in Japan more successful than in the West, says an industry expert -- a claim supported by recently discovered mathematical properties of networks.
Tags: communication email innovation mobile posted
A History of Communications 35,000 BC - 1998 AD
Timeline of communication from 35,000 BC to 1998
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