What’s Next Now

Changes

I plan on retiring this blog.  The original target market was not well-considered.  I have a new project under construction and will link here before I remove this site.

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When a “Social Media Expert” Gets it Wrong

I uncovered this article in Forbes by Mike Schaffner, a blogger and director of information technology for The Valve and Measurement Group of Cameron in Houston.  His article is entitled “The Death of Social Media.”  In it, he moans: “Many of the people that I get as followers on Twitter seem to offer nothing more [...]

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Google is a Time and Place

I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. -Rudyard Kipling The lesson Kipling wrote of is one of the first things they teach you about writing if you attend a college of journalism (and I suppose any other college of writing discipline).  [...]

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A 2010 Take on the Future of Communication

I was quite excited this morning to read an article in the Irish Times in which a British journalism professor almost completely “gets” what the notion of  ”social media” (i.e. people having conversations) actually means to the future of communication. I really have only one quibble, but it’s a big one because Professor Roy Greenslade [...]

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Gist: A Peek at the Future of Business Communication

One of my greatest frustrations today is that I can see most of the pieces that will become part of our business communication future;  I just can’t quite access them conveniently yet.  Knowing what I know makes me very impatient. But I’m also very hopeful, especially when I have the opportunity to see more clearly [...]

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