Business Communication Today, 15th Ed.
Chapter 1. Professional Communication in a Digital, Social, Mobile World
"What makes a great public speaker truly great?
According to Alana Burke (photo, left), "I personally experience stress on a very regular basis.
"Sweaty palms.
"Answering a cellphone or shooting off a text message during a business lunch may do more than just give an employee a bad reputation — it could cost them a chance to move up the corporate ladder, new research suggests," writes Chad Brooks (photo, left) in a piece at FoxBusiness.
According to Lee Rainie (photo, left), "For the first time, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has found that cell phone ownership among adults has exceeded 90%.
"Through the years, we've watched technology grow like a child budding into adulthood: It starts out mostly crying and pooping, then crawling, gradually learning to walk, and finally able to run at a speed we all wish we could keep up with.
"Melitta Campbell (photo, left) is a copywriter with 15 years experience of working in a corporate communications environment within a number of international organisations.
Freemake does its own research on how YouTube replaced tv .
There are four things that the most successful professionals have in common.
We live in a busy world.
Professor Timothy Coombs talks about the relations between social media and crisis communication.
A newsletter has gone out with a glaring, and rather embarrassing, error.
Which workplace communication method increased more in the past year - email or social media?
I get tons of emails where the writer tells a story and then ends with, “is that even legal?
BusinessInsider.
Can you read this?
There are quite a number of motivational speakers and self-improvement books out there with a surprisingly simple message: believe that success will come easily to you and it will.
Are you bored .
In the last couple of days I have received cryptic memos at work, undecipherable emails, incomplete invitations, and a handful of odd looks, expressions, and a bizarre, possibly obscene, gesture (from another motorist).
We live and work in an age when there is plenty to fret about for professionals in every field and at every level.
Fear is one of our most basic and essential survival mechanisms, but sometimes it can overwhelm us even when a real threat doesn't exist.
What do you do when you fall off the horse?
"We are made to persist.