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April 14, 2006

Companies blocking employees from reading RSS feeds

- a shel of my former self

I dream of a world without prejudice. Wars will be a distant memory. No child will go to bed hungry. A organizations will trust their employees enough to let them subscribe to RSS feeds. In case you hadn’t heard... ›››

Category: General | internal

April 12, 2006

Positive outcomes at the Rubel geek dinner

- a shel of my former self

I’m just back from Steve Rubel‘s geek dinner in San Francisco. Yesterday, I was Skype messaging with Jeremy Pepper, suggesting he drop by since he now works here. “Maybe I will,” he mused. And, indeed, he did. And, as... ›››

Category: General

Positive outcomes at the Rubel geek dinner

- a shel of my former self

I’m just back from Steve Rubel‘s geek dinner in San Francisco. Yesterday, I was Skype messaging with Jeremy Pepper, suggesting he drop by since he now works here. “Maybe I will,” he mused. And, indeed, he did. And, as... ›››

Category: General

April 10, 2006

The Devil and Mr. Rubel

- a shel of my former self

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Category: General

April 07, 2006

The Devil and Mr. Rubel

- a shel of my former self

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Category: General

April 06, 2006

Proud to be a nobody

- a shel of my former self

What risk do you run when you’re snarky to a colleague? In the case of Ragan Communications’ David Murray, the answer is subtle ridicule. What’s more, the target of the snarkiness isn’t the source of the ridicule. Instead, it’s... ›››

Category: Blog | General | internal

IABC ConferenceCast debuts

- a shel of my former self

As reported earlier, Neville Hobson and I are co-hosting and co-producing the official podcast of the 2006 IABC international conference. The podcast—ConferenceCast—debuted today and is available for download, audio stream, and RSS subscription over at the conference blog, In... ›››

Category: General | Podcasting

March 31, 2006

What more could you want when the sun is shining?

- NevilleHobson.com

I arrived in Manchester in north-west England today ahead of my particpation in a one-day workshop for Melcrum I’m co-presenting tomorrow entitled Enhancing your Intranet with New Technology: How to Make the Most of Social Media. This is my... ›››

Category: Events | General | Travel

March 20, 2006

Sparklines: Merging visual data with text

- a shel of my former self

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Problem is, a picture can also take up a lot of space, particularly on a web page. Leave it to Edward Tufte to come up with a solution. Nobody is... ›››

Category: General | Web

March 17, 2006

Judgmental

- a shel of my former self

I’m spending all day today and tomorrow serving as a Blue Ribbon Panel judge for IABC Gold Quill Awards. Gold Quill is IABC’s international program recognizing communication excellence. For two days, we’ll review the entries in a variety of... ›››

Category: General

March 13, 2006

More choice with WordPress widgets

- NevilleHobson.com

Some interesting moves going on with the free WordPress.com hosted blog service in the area of ease of use in design and layout that adds to its attraction as an alternative to TypePad, the hosted service you pay for.... ›››

Category: General | k2 theme | movable type | typepad | wordpress

March 07, 2006

Travelling home

- NevilleHobson.com

Heading off back to Amsterdam today. It’s been a terrific US trip. Shel’s and Michele’s hospitality last week was peerless. The New Communications Forum was outstanding. I met with IABC yesterday: great discussions. Terrific bars and restaurants here in... ›››

Category: General | Travel

March 04, 2006

There are two Shels

- a shel of my former self

For many years, being named Shel had the advantage of uniqueness. “What an unusual name,” people would say. “Is it short for something?” I was never confused with anyone else. Then along comes “Naked Conversations.” Not only is one... ›››

Category: General

March 01, 2006

Microsoft enters classified fray

- a shel of my former self

eBay and Craig’s List have appropriated classified advertising from newspapers. Some believe that Edgeio and similar services that vacuum classified listings from blogs based on ad-specific tags will spell the end for eBay and Craig’s List. Google is taking... ›››

Category: General | Technology

February 26, 2006

It's not too late

- a shel of my former self

The New Communications Forum begins on Wednesday with pre-conference “boot camps,” then kicks into high gear on Thursday, March 2. The lineup of speakers surpasses that of any new media conference I’ve seen, from Lockergnome to Syndicate, and the... ›››

Category: General

February 22, 2006

Dear God, there are too many of us!

- a shel of my former self

I’m doing a session in about an hour at a company that had signs created for all the conference sessions. My session today is titled, “Communicating in a World of Overcommunication.” The signmakers apparently saw it differently. At least,... ›››

Category: General

February 20, 2006

More on Douglas Rushkoff

- IdeaFlow

I still haven't gotten to Douglas Rushkoff's Get Back in the Box: Innovation From the Inside Out. But while working with my other blog project, the Corante Marketing Hub, I came across two interesting posts on Rushkoff by Johnnie... ›››

Category: General | Innovation

February 15, 2006

Poor George

- a shel of my former self

Reading an item from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I was reminded of one of the comments submitted to Jeremy Zawodny’s blog after he blasted a Silicon Valley PR agency for allegedly spamming him. The comment (by “Aimee') read: There are... ›››

Category: External | General

January 20, 2006

But will the offenders care?

- a shel of my former self

I wrote recently about Jim Horton’s proposal for calling out PR practitioners who use spam as a means of content distribution. “Whenever a PR firm spams any PR blogger, we out the firm in our blogs and brand them... ›››

Category: General

January 19, 2006

Sometimes I just hate technology

- a shel of my former self

Why no posts before now, nearly 4 p.m.? Because my technology betrayed me. At times like this, I long for the simpler days when the worst thing about technology was changing a typewriter ribbon. (I’m getting all nostalgic.) Neville,... ›››

Category: General

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