Communication

If you’d like your written and spoken communication to command instant respect and credibility (rather than ridicule and contempt)…
If you’d like people to stand up and listen when you talk (rather than ignore or even mock your ideas)…
If you’d like to be perceived as intelligent and articulate (rather than dull and slow on the uptake)…
Then [...]

Collaboration and communication are an important part of any project or business, and that’s why it’s essential for team members to be able to communicate in whatever way works for them. Tools like Twitter have revolutionized the way people communicate, but these tools aren’t always a natural fit for the needs of a business. Because [...]

LANcet Chat is free software for real-time message exchange over local networks (LANs). With it, you don’t need to install a chat server. All participants can connect any time and they will see each other automatically.
Just run LANcet Chat on every computer and start talking immediately. It allows the sending of private messages. It can [...]

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What happens when you share something with your friends through e-mail or a Web site? Your goal is for them to respond and tell you what they think, and this can happen through an e-mail, a phone call, or any other method for that matter. Yes, this communication can happen in a bunch of detached [...]

Thanks to the advancement of technology, we’re able to communicate with each other in more ways than we can even keep track of. In fact, sometimes we wish it wasn’t so easy for other people to contact us in what seems like hundreds of different ways. Communicating with one person online is pretty straightforward, but [...]

No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, chances are you’re required to deliver visual presentations to your peers, boss, or your customers. Indeed, presentations have become the de facto business communication tool. Yet unlike verbal communication, thinking visually isn’t easy, natural, or commonly taught in schools or business training programs. Fortunately, O’Reilly’s newest [...]

For the past several months I have had the pleasure of improving my communication effectiveness while at the same time reducing my reliance and the massive amount of time I used to spend on email. Tools like Twitter, blogging, and - yes - actively making sure I am using the telephone (remember that thing?) have [...]

We’re used to leading busy lives in the real world, but as time goes on, it seems like our online lives are actually becoming busier than our real lives. So many of us are using a number of different online services to communicate and share media with our friends, and keeping up with all of [...]

Many of us are having more and more of our conversations online, and tools such as Twitter are enabling us to do that. In just a few seconds, we can use Twitter to blast a message out to all of our friends and then receive their replies. This is streamlined communication at its finest, and [...]