Business Communication Today, 14th Ed.
Chapter 7. Digital Media
"Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school.
"Sweaty palms.
"Kim Brown is an assistant director for Syracuse University's Career Services department.
"Melitta Campbell (photo, left) is a copywriter with 15 years experience of working in a corporate communications environment within a number of international organisations.
Digital shaming has become the newest form of public stocks, ensuring the wrongdoings of individuals are widely known and impossible to erase.
Anyone who has worked with other people in other cultures is aware that emails across borders sometimes have unexpected results or even no result.
After getting fired in October from the high-tech startup where he had worked for more than four years Joshua Filgate, a 27-year-old engineer in Southborough, Mass.
Let's assume you're not stupid or a jerk or weird--that you're not misspelling every other word or ending every thought with "OK?
There are four things that the most successful professionals have in common.
Professor Timothy Coombs talks about the relations between social media and crisis communication.
Writing sensible email messages As we've seen before, getting your inbound email under control will give you a huge productivity boost, but what about all the emails you send?
Geoffrey James (photo, left) offers some advice to avoid "LinkedIn mistakes that will kill your credibility.
While email saves a great deal of time as an alternative to phone calls or meetings, it can still take precious time out of your day.
How can you use Twitter most effectively?
You hear so much about how instantly reachable we all are, how hyperconnected, with our smartphones, laptops, tablets and such.
On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lies can be subtle and counter-intuitive.
In this video Brian Solis interviews Tyler Cyr, Dunkin' Brands' web communications manager, on "how social media helps continue and improve the Dunkin’ experience.
Ian Griffin recently attended a forum where Kim A.
According to TED.
Dave Johnson has good things to say about 9Slides - an online platform that allows users to upload slides and videos for a synchronized online presentation you can show to those who missed your live presentation.
"What if I told you the most important 140 characters you write on Twitter aren’t your actual tweets, but your Twitter bio?
As a business communication instructor, it's important to teach your students how to write specifically for social media and digital communication.
According to Bianca Male and Kim Bhasin (photo, left), "Productivity loss due to email has become such a big issue that one of the world's largest IT companies banned its use for its employees.
Chances are you’ll have at least one video interview using Skype or another Internet-based phone service.
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