A strategic approach to planning and implementing social media initiatives has played a significant and measurable role in enabling the CME Group to claim a position that is ahead of the curve when it comes to using social media among financial exchanges. The world’s largest future exchanges and owner of…
Intro: Recording on Sunday Feb 10, Allan Schoenberg interview set for this week, enhancements to FIR Google+ Community page; Quick News: BBC trials trainee communicators’ programme, journalists taking refuge in the world of branded content, systems of engagement ‘will revolutionise technology’ by 2018 says Forrester, site plagiarizes blog posts then…
The humour in this Dilbert cartoon – the boss talking about blogging his thoughts about his business when in reality it will be his employee doing the thinking and the writing – is a simple but good reminder that expressing opinion online is a lot about authenticity. You may have…
The scare in the UK about horsemeat in food products that are supposedly made from beef presents real issues for the brands concerned. The latest news is about Findus UK which makes beef lasagne products. Media reports everywhere are about the discovery that some of those products contain “up to…
It was good to see news last week that EE’s 4G cellular data coverage now extends to nine more towns across the UK. That translates as 4G currently available in 28 towns and cities covering 45 percent of the population, with another 27 towns planned to have 4G by the…
The idea that computers rather than people could make decisions about other people’s intentions in the workplace that I wrote about recently – an IBM security tool can flag “disgruntled employees” – may be the tip of an evolutionary iceberg that spotlights a wider and deeper issue facing developed countries…
Intro: Fix for FIR mobile app updates, Allan Schoenberg interview still planned; Quick News: Companies failing to accommodate shift to mobile, IBM security tool can flag ‘disgruntled employees’, YouTube introducing paid subscriptions, Swedish bloggers commit to posting 50,000 blog posts in 100 days; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Closing the…
Maybe it’s because I’m currently reading 1984 by George Orwell on my Kindle – the first time I’ve read the book since the early 1980s – but this report in The Wall Street Journal that an IBM security tool can flag “disgruntled employees” struck me as a bit, well, Orwellian.…
