All the best films have a challenge at their heart. In Dunkirk, its Johnny Mills as a British corporal steering his men to safety. In Pulp Fiction, its Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta getting away with accidentally shooting Marvin in the face. One if the biggest challenges facing press offices and communications teams isRead… Read more »
The UK Cabinet Office recently released Social Media Guidance for civil servants. The guidance goes far beyond the level and sophistication of material I’ve seen from many other jurisdictions, offering support and useful advice, not just rules and warnings. It also provides advice to CTOs and CIOs on how to oversome some of the technicalRead… Read more »
Datameer’s new version adds to its already impressive ability to empower enterprise users. Datameer was already a capability that could be used by both advanced data scientists and the average enterprise workforce. Now its capabilities have been enhanced to the point that anyone with a PC can use it. I received a webinar of theRead… Read more »
The WGES DC takes place on June 21, 2012 at the Washington Post Conference Center. The attendees will meet a Veteran Actor of 85 Films, a Scientific Leader of Energy & Environment, Officers Leading some of the Largest Contracts in the World, Representative from the Pentagon, learn about the Hydrogen Superhighway project, innovative energy savingRead… Read more »
Http://LeonardSipes.Com After thirty-two years of speaking to the media and tens of thousands of interviews I’ve come to recognize that the most difficult part of the public affairs profession is communication honesty. It’s an observation and concern shared by many in our profession. It’s simply too tempting for many to bend the truth to theRead… Read more »
Every device we buy these days seems to have a camera on it but it can still be difficult to find great pictures when you need them for a website, brochure, presentation or just about any other type or print or digital media. Well what if I told you that you could tap into moreRead… Read more »
At the end of last month, Tri Tuns went to Cloud Slam ’12 in San Francisco where our CEO, Jason Whitehead, was invited to give a presentation about the newest challenges in cloud adoption: the users. As one might expect at a cloud conference, Cloud Slam ’12 leaned heavily toward the technical and many peopleRead… Read more »
Which risks can be managed using a compliance model vs. which risks need other approaches? Robert Kaplan and Anette Mikes provide a framework in a great Harvard Business Review article. In their HBR article, “Managing Risks: A New Framework,” Kaplan and Mikes say: “risk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that canRead… Read more »
So. Habbo Hotel. Bit of a screw up there somewhere, isn’t there. As Channel 4 exclusively revealed today, there’s trouble at mill, trouble of the nastiness kind. Isn’t there? Firstly, I want to take issue with something that I know right now. Channel 4 telling me that chances are my child is one of theRead… Read more »
When in 6th grade, on the walk home with friends, we would stop at a local store and buy a soda (for 5¢) – I’d often think how nice it would be to have an ice cold bottle of water instead of the sweet soda. With the popularity of bottled water today, was mine anRead… Read more »