Business Communication Essentials, 8th Ed.
Chapter 1. Professional Communication in Today’s Digital, Social, Mobile World
"We've all heard of or experienced ourselves the mental or physical brain freeze that's often described as "choking" under pressure.
"In a single minute there are over 695,000 status updates on Facebook.
"Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves.
A stunning visual motion-graphic presenting 15 keys facts and stats about the evolution of communication technologies and the Internet in the next 4 years.
James Sandin (photo, left) is the founder/CEO of "Speak With EEEs.
No matter how much you love your job, there are times when your work motivation is just going to bottom out.
No matter how much you love your job, there are times when your work motivation is just going to bottom out.
Our daily life is full of unproductive habits and rituals that we execute – whether on a conscious or unconscious level.
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make.
Steven Gaffney, president of the Steven Gaffney Company, is a leading expert on honest, interpersonal communication, influence and leadership .
We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules.
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Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets.
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Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
Adele McAlear discusses the overlooked issue of our online legacies and how to ensure the appropriate preservation of our binary ashes.
Get a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at a new business, Artisan Flavors Ice Cream, and how its owner is exclusively using social media and electronic communication for promotion, including videos (YouTube), podcasts (iTunes), press releases (PRNewswire), maps (Google), photos (Flickr), conversations (Twitter, Facebook), blogs (WordPress), and reviews (Yelp).
Has the textbook you've been using to teach business communication or business writring become obsolete?
This is another official update to the original "Shift Happens" video.
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action, and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.
Courtland Bovee explains that social media isn't a fad.
Because of the social media revolution and electronic communication revolution, what is being taught in a typical business course should be changing.
A video from Creative Commons explaining what the CC license is all about.
This is a Dove Beauty ad showing Photoshop changing a plain girl into a model.
Crowdsourcing" has, virtually overnight, generated huge buzz, enthusiasm, and fear.
Jeff Howe delves into both the positive and negative consequences of this intriguing phenomenon.