Downsizing is the undisputed global management trend of the moment, says The Economist in a feature in the current edition that discusses what some companies are doing to reduce costs beyond the job cuts that have been making the news recently. The Economist describes what companies like Nortel have been…
FeedDemon – the best desktop RSS feed reader for Windows, in my view – will soon be out in a new version 2.8. As is typical in much software development these days, beta versions of the new release are publicly available for testing or trying out, always with the caveat…
Earlier I posted about the Motrin kerfuffle and the opportunity it presents brand owner McNeil to listen to customers and engage with them. Reading the apology text again that McNeil posted on the Motrin home page (above), there are a few things about it that bother me. First of all,…
Four years ago, an online storm erupted over the best-selling bicycle lock brand in the USA and how anyone could open the lock with a simple ball-point pen. During a 10-day period, a groundswell of commentary and opinion about Kryptonite locks spread from enthusiasts talking on bike forums to the…
Content summary: Plans for show #401 on Thanksgiving Day; Shel on a Media Bullseye panel; Neville reflects on a Windows Live briefing in London from Microsoft; FIR Interview with Chuck Hester coming; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on internet addiction in China, IBM’s Virtual Forbidden City and more; discussion 1:…
The email I received this morning from PayPal was such a genuine-looking one, it almost had me fooled. Except it wasn’t from PayPal at all but instead an attempt at phishing. The first giveaway that it may not be the real deal was that Outlook’s junk mail filter had trapped…
There’s talk that Barack Obama will have to give up doing email once he moves in to the Oval Office. […] The US president-elect is likely to give it up, aides told the New York Times, because transparency laws would open his correspondence to public view. Presidents Bill Clinton and…
People often ask me which PR blogs I read. Saying ‘a lot’ isn’t what they expect to hear but that’s what I do – I read a lot of PR blogs. Or rather, I subscribe to a lot of PR blogs in my RSS reader via an aggregated feed of…
