In an announcement today, seven news corporations will form a partnership with Yahoo that will include sharing advertising content. The companies involved with the deal include the Hearst Corp.; MediaNews Group; Belo Corp.; E.W. Scripps Co.; Journal Register Co.; Lee read more...

IABC has released an e-mail survey of communicators that found a majority of us feel we get too much e-mail and are spending two hours or more daily dealing with e-mail. It is a great follow-up to my lament last week, Get Control of Your Inbox.

I included a chart showing the sources of e-mail and the respondents feeling about each category. Not surprisingly, we feel we are getting too much external news and professional subscriptions read more...

It has been awhile since I have run a Fun Friday post, but today is Friday and I just stumbled across something fun that is also an interesting example of how one company illustrates their tagline with social media. So, I thought I would share.

GE’s tagline is “Imagination at Work.”

So they created a nifty online tool that can help you to collaborate with others on an idea – to expand your own imagination. Thus, read more...

Okay, I admit it, I have an e-mail problem. I have 1,203 items in my Outlook inbox, 781 in my Yahoo mailbox, and a few starting to stack up in gmail. Oh, not to mention, I have an e-mail address with one of my clients that I am afraid to check.

I don’t know about you, but as a communication professional, and a contractor, I save e-mails obsessively, and rarely go back to weed them out.

The DownloadSquad blog offers the following read more...

I am fascinated by viral video. Videos like the Eepy-Bird Mentos and Diet Coke video are brilliant examples of how viral video can make, or break, a career. But that same video is also an example of how copyright law can be a murky pond of green goop. The video, which was posted at the Eepy-Bird website and powered by read more...