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nonverbal communication

As in all things in life, sometimes the best advice is the stuff that comes from the professionals. Anecdotal evidence from well-meaning friends and colleagues sometimes doesn’t ‘cut it’.

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

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If you are interested in decorating your office with gorgeous images of Adelaide you should check out Robby Cummins’ gorgeous work – http://wxnorth.redbubble.com/works

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Attempts to control employees’ use of such software could damage firms in the long run by limiting the way staff communicate, the think tank ‘Demos’ have said.

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G’day! Thanks for returning! There are three ‘Lee’s you need to take note of in this Business Communication end of the Social Media universe: Lee LeFever and his wife Sachi — creators of the ever-brilliant ‘CommonCraft‘ series of videos that explain Social Media tools and philosophies in such an effective way Lee Potts — creator [...]

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Well, Day One of my two day Melcrum workshop has finished. I’m back at the hotel and after having had a fabulous meal and even having indulged in an hour of tv (an unheard-of luxury for me), it is back to work. Today was fraught with technological meltdowns whose warning rumblings started yesterday evening. Last [...]

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…that in a city where we pride ourselves on being the ‘Boston of the Southern Hemisphere’, a city where technologists and creatives are often born and then move eastwards, we STILL have folks who just don’t ‘get it’. There is a marketing company — let’s call them ‘Aldo Mar’ for want of a better name [...]

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Yesterday I attempted to persuade senior HR folks of the necessity to allow social networking at work. I was presenting at the Adelaide leg of the Australian HR Industry’s annual roadshow, attempting to answer the question ‘Should Social Networking be allowed in the workplace?’ My view is strongly ‘YES!’ and here’s why: We ask of [...]

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"Can you back that up with empirical data?" asked one of the delegates. I was running a Social Media Strategy workshop in Sydney for the PRIA and had been pontificating that early adopters of technology (such as Second Life residents) were also likely to be ‘influencers’ within their communities and social spheres. So I was [...]

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  The rather clever Jasmin Tragas reminded me yesterday that even though it’s a new communication landscape, we bring to it our old, ingrained habits. To wit: I often add pictures to my blog posts; usually these pictures are mashups of retro images and text, but every now and then I use pictures of attractive [...]

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