Information richness
What changed in the last 200 years
Powerful visuals are indeed worth a thousand words... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPt8ElTQMIg&feature=player_embedded]
Information richness
Information richness
Before you twitter
Read this story.
Information richness
The history of the internet
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EME
The myth of multitasking
One study (...) found that workers took an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from interruptions such as phone calls or answering e-mail and return to their original task. Estimated cost to the U.S. economy from loss of productivity: $650 billion annually. [W]e are really talking about
Collaboration: email vs. wiki
And a visual that is worth a thousand words. See also: Wikis in Plain English
Information richness
Less blogs. More books.
So, over the past two years or so, my blog reading has declined. As the average intellectual quality of blog content decreased, and the average person began reading blogs, I decided to find a new source of inspiration, so I turned back to books. When you read what everyone else
Information richness
When readers become viewers
There’s no reason to think that reading and writing are about to become extinct, but some sociologists speculate that reading books for pleasure will one day be the province of a special “reading class,” much as it was before the arrival of mass literacy, in the second half of
Business Communication
Blogs in Plain English
Another great explanation from common craft... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI] See also Wikis in Plain English.
Daft and Lengel
Choosing the right medium for the task: Information richness
The advent and widespread use of e-mail, instant messaging and video conferencing has broadened the menu of available media beyond the letter and the phone call. Communicating effectively therefore requires a choice of the medium that is appropriate to one’s communication objective.Information richness theory provides a guide
Business Communication
Communication tools map
See full discussion at How to Save the World. Related: Current communication ecosystem Wireless addiction
I fire you. Let me count the ways
Voicemail: The company hasn't been doing well. We've had to let some people go, and you've been affected. As of today, you're off the payroll. Letter: One food processing plant in California sent 1,000 workers a letter at home, telling them
Wall Street to get email guidelines
The guidelines represent nearly two years of work by a committee of N.Y.S.E. Regulation and NASD, Wall Street firms and lawyers, as well as contributions by the Securities and Exchange Commission. They are intended to clarify how forms of communication unimaginable when the rules were last revised,