Business, Communication, Technology
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It’s a hot topic, it involves a product many people hate, and it’s from a company that many love to hate.
It’s about Outlook, the ubiquitous Windows application from Microsoft for email, contacts, calendar, etc, a new version of which is coming next year.
Therein lie the issues, say the people behind Fixoutlook.org, centered on Microsoft’s [...]
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A growing story over the weekend concerns Apple CEO Steve Jobs, his state of health and whether or not he’s had a liver transplant.
That’s what a report in the Wall Street Journal says.
What I’ve found especially interesting is a post by John Gruber which looks like the epitome of careful and thoughtful research-backed analysis [...]
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This morning, I picked up a copy of today’s Daily Telegraph, the edition of the paper that includes “The Complete Expenses Files,” a 68-page report detailing the revelations about MPs’ expenses that the paper has been publishing every day for the past month or so.
The first thing that struck me about this large-sized document [...]
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Earlier this week, the government published the details of expenses claimed by Members of Parliament.
Plenty has been talked about during the past few months in relation to MPs’ expenses, not the least of which has been the ongoing scoop by The Daily Telegraph in exposing some truly extraordinary behaviours by our elected representatives (the [...]
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You could see the headline on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph on the newsstand from 50 feet away: The ministers and the money.
Whatever your political stance, it must surely be apparent to anyone that something in Westminster is rotten, and has been for a very long time, regarding the expenses and allowances [...]
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An organization often in the news here in the UK is Phorm, the US-registered company behind some controversial experiments to measure people’s behaviours when they’re online through behavioural targeting.
The latest move by Phorm in an escalating battle to win over opinions is an interesting one – set up a website with a catchy name [...]
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Yesterday was quite a day for Domino’s Pizza’s leadership and the communication team.
It was a day during which the number of people who viewed a nasty video posted to YouTube by two rogue employees approached a million, thousands of others posted comments online, and the company became embroiled in a huge and very fast-moving [...]
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(This post was updated during April 15 as events evolved: scroll down to see additional commentary.)
A public relations disaster of potentially epic proportions is brewing for Domino’s Pizza following the antics of two employees and a video on YouTube.
You can read the gruesome details at Consumerist but, concisely, it happened over the Easter weekend [...]
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Although I’ve largely been offline over the Easter weekend – meaning, not using Twitter or much RSS reading – I have been following developments in the extraordinary tale of No 10’s (former) communication strategist Damian McBride’s emails to LabourList blogger Derek Draper in January.
In concise summary, those emails were to do with ideas for [...]
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It’s a bit of a macabre topic, one that wouldn’t readily spring to your mind: the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, which came into effect in the UK a year ago, aims to ensure organizations are held to account if a fatal accident is caused by “gross failings” by managers.
Organizations convicted of corporate [...]
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