inCommunicado - eric eggertson

Robert French offers business communicators a 12 step program to get over their addiction to Old School communications techniques.
A couple of the steps:

We admit that WOM / social media no longer allows us to have total control over the message.
Admit to yourself, those in your organization, your stakeholders, and to any other interested human […]

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I read a lot about the use of technology for corporate purposes, and I have to agree with some of the blogophobes. I’d like to see less blind faith, and more discussion of some of the ways social media can help organizations achieve their goals.
I still think the new media advocates have the right idea. […]

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Kevin Kelly has a write-up and a good list of the various sites that use the consensus of their participants to identify and rank online information.
Kelly uses sites like this to: "get a fantastic sense of what the web is reading, and an early glimpse of what will reach the MSM in the next day […]

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I don’t have ALL my mail on Gmail, but having it unavailable on and off reminded me that I should switch to POP access, so I have a copy of all mail on my home PC.Tags: gmail, google
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Two years ago, I cared little about weblogs, except for the trendwatching entertainment of seeing their increasing popularity.
Now, I get more news and information from them than from TV.
Next year, who can say?
Jeremy Wright calls MySpace "the new blogosphere."  Steve Rubel points to sites like YouTube, digg, MySpace and Stupidvideos.com as sites with growing audiences […]

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  Will Pate    Originally uploaded by kk+.
Vancouver web development sales guy Will Pate is using his network of friends, associates and pathological geeks to help him look for a new challenge.
Pate has been making good things happen for Raincity Studios, but wants to try something else.
Technorati’s community manager Niall Kennedy […]

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Michael Tippett: Digg.com is an example of how the audience is influencing the news - readers vote on which stories should have most prominence. Their traffic is now bigger than NBC or CNN.
Nancy White:  The online world calls for new competencies. We operate in an electronic world, where our body language and our ability […]

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Technorati CEO David Sifry spoke at Northern Voice today: spam.corporate extortion using network bandwidth and Google Bowling are threats.

Spam – As Cory Doctorow says, all healthy ecosystems have parasites. The good news here is that in the end it all goes back to a web page somewhere, so in a sense it’s accountable. We still […]

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Queen’s University tried out a deception detector, and applied it to speeches by three Canadian political leaders.
The results? Paul Martin uses the most indirect language, Stephen Harper the least indirect, and Jack Layton is slightly more indirect than Harper.
Using the Pennebaker model for detecting deception in text, the computer science students scanned the speeches for […]

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  Tod Maffin Podcasters Meetup Regina 2006    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
I guess there isn’t a burgeoning community of podcasters in Regina, or they didn’t see the promos. Either way, a small group of us got together Tuesday night with technology journalist, futurist and podcaster/blogger Tod Maffin to throw some […]

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Colin McKay - Is Traditional Public Opinion Polling Dying a Slow Death?
Colin McKay - Abramoff, Op-eds, and the "Invisible" Hand of the Free MarketBusiness Week and others reveal payments for editorial mentions of a lobbyist’s clients in op-ed pieces placed by think-tank analysts.
Scott Baradell - Media Orchard Presents: The 10 Worst Spins of 2005
David […]

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