Business Communication Essentials, 8th Ed.
Chapter 1. Professional Communication in Today’s Digital, Social, Mobile World
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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?
A video from Creative Commons explaining what the CC license is all about.
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.
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.

If the human brain sees a million images per day and can instantly identify them, why couldn't software do that, too?
This 20-page colorfully illustrated document could be used as an electronic handout.
Recent research by Ben L.
A guide to the things an instructor new to blogging should know.
This 20-page colorfully illustrated document could be used as an electronic handout.