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Challenging content, great videos, great photos… do your brain a favour.

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Twitter explained

by Lee Hopkins on October 30, 2008 · 0 comments

in book review, micro-blogging, tools

Luke Razzell has just released a fabbo pdf report [11 pages, 1.9mb] on what Twitter is and the various and diverse ways that it is being used. Recommended reading!

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Reading material

by Lee Hopkins on September 24, 2008 · 3 comments

in book review, customer service, miscellaneous, tools

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. You can even subscribe by email! Thanks for visiting!Over the last few of the talks I’ve given quite a few of the attendees have come up afterwards and asked me what books and publications I would recommend to ‘get up to [...]

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I normally leave politics to my exceptionally able friend and colleague Trevor Cook who focuses on the bigger issues (like StroganoffGate), but last night in bed I read the Costello Memoirs.
Actually, the book was "Not the Costello Memoirs", as told to Walter Slurry.
To give you an example of what sort of tone this gem of [...]

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This is not normally a blog where I launch into political issues, but the current conflict in Georgia keeps welling up in my heart. I know that this conflict is not a ‘new’ thing: I can’t tell you how I know, but I know that several major nation states have been involved in quiet ways [...]

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I’m devouring a fabulous new report from Melcrum on employee engagement practices from a communication perspective.
Entitled Viral communication in the workplace, there’s a shed load of great material in here, and hints, tips and advice from luminaries like Angela Sinickas, Brad Whitworth from Cisco, my friend Carol Kinsey Goman, [...]

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Plantronics bluetooth earpiece - nice work

by Lee Hopkins on August 19, 2008 · 0 comments

in book review, tools

I’ve been giving the Plantronics Explorer 320 bluetooth earpiece a thorough road test the last few weeks and it gets the BetterComms thumbs up!
Lukas Picton at Text100 sent me one to review and I’ve resisted posting about it until I could really put it through its paces.
Now that all of my websites are back [...]

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Carol Kinsey Goman has written another superb article for me and I’ve popped it up on my articles website.
Entitled ‘Thriving on discontinuous change’, here’s a snippet:
IBM’s 2008 Global CEO Study finds that organizations are being bombarded by change, and many are struggling to keep up. Executives see significant change ahead, but the gap between [...]

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