“Companies should not dismiss staff who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo at work as merely time-wasters, a Demos study suggests. Attempts to control employees’ use of such software could damage firms in the long run by…
Career management
Dave Pollard, of the How to Save the World blog, has a new book out, Finding the Sweet Spot: the Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work. Pollard’s blog is on my very small “daily reads” list. He’s a…
I came of age before Gary Gygax’s (PBUH) Dungeons & Dragons fell onto my radar. And I escaped the fad unscathed. My first and only experience with D&D was in intelligence school (I needed remedial, you see) in the Navy,…
Chez Pazienza is a writer, an award-winning television news producer and the creative voice behind Deus Ex Malcontent. During his somewhat illustrious and certainly notorious 16 years in TV news, he’s produced and managed daily content for WSVN and WTVJ…
From Stuart Bruce comes the chilling news that your boss might own your Facebook profile… in some instances. He cites Pinsent-Mason’s Out-Law blog (which I am glad to have discovered). Here’s a snip: “Employers could have grounds to demand ownership…
Yesterday, in show #2 of the Better Desirable Roasted Communications Café Podcast, Lee Hopkins and I talked about virtual project teams . I believe smart independent communicators, meeting each other in the PR/communication Oort cloud, will soon form temporary, virtual…
I’ve signed on again to be a contributor to the Marcom blog, the blog of Robert French, his PR students at Auburn University and a handful of lucky contributors. It’s a terrific initiative that must be getting Robert some serious…
Neville Hobson, Tom Foremski and Mitch Ratcliffe are dispensing advice you should run, not walk, to heed immediately if you work in an organization. The message: Guard your identity and don’t mix it up with your company’s identity. Otherwise, you…
