Communication (from Latin "communis", meaning to share) is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior. Communication is defined by de Valenzuela as “any act by which one person gives to or receives from another person information about that person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states.
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The pandemic has changed leadership forever — here's how to be good at it
Well before there was even a whiff of coronavirus, the attributes that were predicted to be the most important for business ...
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Using jargon to sound smart? Science says you’re just insecure
Why, oh, why do people feel the need to spout jargon? Well, according to one specific study, insecurity in the workplace ...
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Start your company culture afresh with these 3 values
These three values — humility, feedback, and intentional focus — have brought my company success. Adopt these values, ...
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5 hot tips for startups to create a strong brand from day one
Postponing developing your brand is not an option, as all conscious and unconscious decisions of your organization will influence ...
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How to make your DevOps dollars go further during a crisis
Ultimately, development efficiency comes from understanding everyone’s core strengths and weaknesses and building around ...
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9 easy Slack tips to make remote more bearable for your team
Did you know Tamar Yehoshua, Slack‘s Chief Product Officer, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session ...
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You're using your company's intranet all wrong
Leaders run a real risk of burning out their employees with too many forms of communication while remote — intranet can ...
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It’s 2020, your team’s mental health and morale should be a priority by now
Working in 2020 hasn't been easy. Here's why your team's mental health and morale should be a priority — more than ever ...
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How Slack employees use Slack
Did you know Tamar Yehoshua, the author of this piece, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on 'Human-centricity: ...
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What beekeeping taught me about digital leadership
Did you know Warren Knight, the author of this piece, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on 'What's ...
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Beautystack’s Sharmadean Reid helps you kickstart a community-focused brand
Beautystack's Sharmadean Reid is on a mission to fix beauty tech and she's opened up about her leadership style, productivity ...
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How Intel helped give the 'world's first' cyborg a voice
When Dr Peter Scott-Morgan was diagnosed with MND, he devised a plan to become a cyborg, through a combination of AI, robotics, ...
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How IoT revolutionized medical care during the pandemic
Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into an unprecedented situation. It even gave birth ...
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5 simple ways to keep your company culture alive while working remotely
While culture might not be high on the list of priorities during a crisis, it's absolutely crucial to ensure that productivity ...
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Getting started with Python APIs
Talking to the internet with Python sounds scary, right? Fortunately, the internet has been in good hands for a long ...
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Are carebots 'empathetic' enough to replace human doctors?
Research shows that doctors who offer empathic and positive messages can reduce a patient’s pain, improve their recovery ...
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Great leaders shoot straight with their teams — especially during a crisis
There's no getting around some hard conversations, especially in an economic crisis. Now more than ever, good leadership ...
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The key to compassionate leadership in the Zoom era
While the circumstances have changed for businesses during the pandemic, the basic tenets of leadership didn’t — so we ...
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To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo
As Google faces at least four major antitrust investigations on two continents, internal documents obtained by The Markup ...
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Here’s what the future of classrooms looks like
With the onset of the pandemic, students, and teachers across the globe suddenly found themselves struggling to adapt to ...
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The 3 Cs of building strong teams in a remote work environment
No matter where you are in your team’s development focus on strong connections, intentional collaborations, and conscious ...
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Why my startup is rejecting the 'new normal'
Rejecting “The New Normal” is the only way forward for companies that want to retain the growth and trust they built ...
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Algorithm reveals which new emoji Twitter users most desire
Researchers from the Haslam College of Business and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are tracking the most requested ...
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Dear Twitter, can we get encrypted DMs already?
We don't need any more signals that enabling end-to-end encryption for DMs is the logical next step for Twitter in the evolution ...
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How to inspire creativity from your remote workers
Creativity is crucial for every company, regardless of the business climate — it fuels innovation and it's a key component ...
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4 effective ways to make your virtual workplace more inclusive
Let’s be honest: pre-pandemic, working from home was a dream. After COVID-19 forced almost everyone to work remotely, we’ve ...
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Some UK bus riders will get Facebook DMs to warn if transport is too busy as lockdown lifts
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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Digital poetry — 5 ways to combine human and computer languages
Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, ...
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Slack announces Slack Connect, its attempt to replace email across businesses
Email is slow, but when it comes to communicating across organizations, it's pretty much the best we've got. Now Slack thinks ...
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Get the fundamentals of DevOps right — then worry about tools
Even though the DevOps methodology has been with us for quite some time now, it’s still the center of heated discussions. ...
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Foolproof tips to communicate better with your remote workforce
Are you struggling to communicate with your colleagues and employees now that most of us are working from home? Here are ...
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5 ways to be a better manager while working remotely
Everyone is adjusting to life during the coronavirus pandemic. For many, working from home is the new normal and poses all ...
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Keeping in touch: How to start a WhatsApp group
WhatsApp is a great way to keep up with friends in a time of quarantine and social distancing. Here's how to set up a group. ...
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How to handle toxic people as an online community manager
Communication surrounds us, and it’s so deeply rooted in our everyday life that we barely make any efforts to initiate ...
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Conway’s Law and DevSecOps: How communication affects security
For DevSecOps, the challenge is to keep communications effective and secure. Machine data will be essential in making this ...
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How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer
It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War to win. In 1957, the Soviet bloc scored a major technological ...
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Communication in the Age of AI
I spent many years working with start-ups and large corporations, and invariably they all spent a large proportion of their ...
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Skills every ambitious tech professional will need in 2020
Tech industry employment is a seller’s market firmly on the side of top talent, but competition for the best jobs remains ...
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Just putting it out there: My emoticon isn't wrong — you are
In this column, “Just putting this out there...,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions ...
