1st Rule of Work: Don’t let your boss know that you hate your job
As we mentioned the other day, the way that social media interacts with our professional lives is changing. A turning point neatly articulated by the current media furore surrounding Sarah Baskerville....
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The students are revolting!
Well, having been a student myself for the last three years, I can tell you that the students have always been revolting – anyone who risked entering my kitchen in the first year can attest to this....
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Q&A with Steve Knight: Internal Comms and the State of the Nation
Steve Knight is a journalist, editor and consultant who has been at the forefront of the internal communication sector for more than 20 years. He has edited the Institute of Internal Communications...
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Book Review: The Net Delusion – How Not to Liberate the World by Evgeny Morozov
Not, on the face of things, a book about organisational change, HR or learning, I hear you murmur. True, I’d murmur back, but a book you might gain a lot from reading nonetheless. While Morozov’s...
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Book review: Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
Are you getting your five a day? No, not fruit & veg. Not even superfruits. Emails. That little red light lighting up on your crac … sorry, BlackBerry to help you feel needed, wanted, useful: after...
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I am, therefore I text …
Mark Ronson – who, to parody Private Eye’s impression of High Court Judges, we might describe to the unfamiliar as a producer of popular music discs – isn’t the first man I’d turn to for insights into...
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We’re not all bad, we’re just coded that way
Algorithms nowadays do more than determining which books, DVDs, CDs or whatever you might want at Amazon. While that’s always amusing for me, given my catholic tastes (and no, I don’t like Johnny Cash,...
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Where values meet economics – a field in Wiltshire
Wherever and whenever we interact with others – as colleagues, suppliers or customers, or even as parent and child – our values provide scope for conflict. Depending on the arena in question, the...
View ArticleIt’s l8tr than u think: living with social media
Just the title above might drop a quiet hint about literacy in its old-fashioned sense. That ‘8’ – phonetically speaking – already contains the ‘t’. Sure, he typed casually, part of the joy of language...
View ArticleThe bigger picture extends beyond the screen
I always appreciate getting updates from Mervyn Dinnen’s blog, not least as the most recent – In Praise of Experience During a Time of Social Media Crisis – pointed me at a fascinating brouhaha I’d not...
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