#communication (23 links)
- How to benefit from the conversations you have at work economist.com
Demonstrable curiosity about other people’s experiences and ideas can benefit everyone. Asking questions, not cutting people off, pausing to digest what someone has said rather than pouncing on breaks in a discussion to make your own point: these are not enough to qualify someone as a supercommunicator. But in plenty of organisations they would still represent good progress.
Unblah is a little "meeting-buddy"-app that helps you...
* Keep track of how long you've been speaking, * Catch yourself before you talk too much, or too little * Develop a better sense of timing
- Don't waste time correcting misinformation. Instead, try the "bypassing technique" - Big Think bigthink.com
Bypassing means not meeting your misinformed opponent head-on. This is not a clash of arguments or a battle of the studies. You are maneuvering an argument into a different position. It’s a kind of epistemological aikido — using someone’s movements and logic against them.
- Make better documents. - Anil Dash anildash.com
We almost never actually teach people how to use the ordinary tools of business communication in more effective ways. So, I'm gathering some advice that I regularly share with people, in hopes that this helps you get your messages across more effectively.
- Conventional Comments conventionalcomments.org
Comments that are easy to grok and grep
- Interrupters: Linguist says it's the Jewish way jweekly.com
- Russell Davies: The 48 Laws of PowerPoint russelldavies.typepad.com
32. One hour of prep per one minute of talk
- Public speaking for the (formerly) terrified | this is rachelandrew.co.uk rachelandrew.co.uk
- Rands In Repose: How to Run a Meeting randsinrepose.com
There are two useful types of meetings: alignment and creation. Briefly, alignment meetings are tactical communication exchanges that rarely dive into the strategic. These are fine meetings that have a weekly cadence, and while there are lots of ways to screw up these meetings, their tactical repetition often keeps them on the rails. Creation meetings — diving into solving a hard problem — involve, well, more creativity. Each hard problem requires a unique solution, and finding that solution is where creation meetings can go bad.
The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.
- Porthcurno Telegraph Museum porthcurno.org.uk
Adaptive Path using Basecamp, Skype and ConceptShare. Been impressed by the latter, in particular (although there are plenty of other services doing the same thing).
- Best Buy's "Enterprise Twitter" - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Internal microblogging/sharing at Best Buy.
- IMO imo.im
A web-based service that allows users to hold text, voice, and video chats on multiple instant messaging protocols. Currently supported protocols include AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, MySpace, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger.
- How we use IRC at Last.fm | Richard Jones, Esq. metabrew.com
Good to see a bit more info on this. Experimented with irccat after seeing it mentioned at FOWA a couple of years ago but had trouble getting the dynamics right for a multi-project model.
Those of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it.
- Home | Pidgin pidgin.im
A multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas?
- Precedent Communications | Seven principles of communication precedent.co.uk
Modern organisations are finally starting to define themselves by looking inwards, chasing authenticity instead of the latest fleeting trends [...] These seven principles are the creeds of a thoroughly modern approach to corporate communications.
- Bold Moves : Homepage fordboldmoves.com
"A weekly updated video documentary series that takes you inside Ford..." Where's the graceful degradation, eh?