Today is Queen’s Day in The Netherlands (Koninginnedag in Dutch), the day that celebrates the birthday of Queen Juliana, the current Queen’s mother. As this day falls on a Sunday, the day of celebrations – flea markets and street parties everywhere – took place yesterday, the 29th. As has been…
I discovered a neat trick with Skype voicemail – how to convert a phone message from Skype’s proprietary audio format into an MP3 file which you can then use in other applications or share it with others. Skype does not offer a way that you can export a voicemail message…
Melcrum Publishing has just published a research report entitled ‘Transforming Your Intranet.’ I got an email about it yesterday and my first thought was: yet another expensive report about intranets with the same old late-90s view about them and the org-chart approach on how to use them. But then I…
Content summary: FIR Listener Survey update; IABC/Dallas podcast survey; communication conferences; connections and recording equipment; Southwest Airlines starts a blog; Lee Hopkins reports; BBC 2.0; Dan York reports; Waggener Edstrom blogging index; Jonathan Schwartz the first Fortune 500 CEO blogger; crisis communication and blogs; the FIR Schwag Shop opens; David…
AOL/Weblogs has launched a set of eight blogs that will include commentary and opinion about the stock of eight listed US companies – Apple, eBay, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Time-Warner, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo. If you want to read about all the eight companies in one place, the aggregated blog BloggingStocks…
If you want to find out how organizations are using wikis, the 33 wikis project from eastwikkers is a terrific place to start. This wiki includes detailed commentary and analysis on each of the 33 wikis listed. It aggregates that from the daily posts eastwikkers has been running for the…
One follow-up to my post yesterday about the BBC’s plans for re-invention – the broadcaster has posted its complete catalogue online, which includes: Details of 946,614 BBC radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years 503,193 subject categories, from Pig Farming to Pirate Radio 1,182,424 contributors, from Bruce Forsyth to Imelda…
Like quite a few people, I’ve installed Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 that Microsoft released earlier this week as part of broadening out their beta testing programme of the new browser version to as wide an audience as possible. I like it and, compared to the earlier beta, it seems…
