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Using online communication tools at the office has become second nature—it just makes life easier and business more efficient. Need to drop a quick note to a co-worker with a project update? Send it on Slack. Need to discuss a deal with a potenti… Continue reading Convenience and Privacy in Online Business Communications: Can You Have Both?
With workplace collaboration tools like Slack, one of the most popular forms of workplace communications these days (over 10 million people use Slack every day), virtual conference rooms have become very popular.
The post Why Your Business Requires Mor… Continue reading Why Your Business Requires More Than Slack
The recent WhatsApp™ hack is pretty alarming: all the hackers had to do was drop a missed encrypted WhatsApp call to their target and—boom—spyware was installed. The hack didn’t require the user to do anything—even if the … Continue reading Five Things You Should Know About the WhatsApp Hack
Smartphones have become an indispensable part of our lives. We use it to keep in touch with families and friends, to handle our bank transactions, to arrange transportation, even to track our health—so it makes a ton of sense for pharmacies to us… Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Pharmacy-Patient Engagement Works Best With Smartphones
A historically industrial area, Marshall County, West Virginia is accustomed to the occasional industrial emergency. So, when a gas pipeline exploded in June of 2018, people knew exactly what to do. As first responders handled over 37 calls in 3 minute… Continue reading A Culture of Communication: Emergency Response in the Oil and Gas Industry
With the rise of social media, smart home products and IoT, privacy is becoming increasingly hard to define. To what extent are we actually agreeing to give up our privacy in exchange for modern convenience versus having privacy wrested from our grasp?… Continue reading Pre-installed Apps on Android Show Why Privacy is No Longer Guaranteed
As a social network, Facebook is inherently at odds with private, secure communications – its business model is built on harvesting people’s information. And it’s not just that Facebook’s business model is built around what ar… Continue reading Facebook’s Shift to Private Communications Makes No Sense
After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the Department of Energy (DoE) asked the National Petroleum Council (NPC) to provide specific actionable steps to better prepare the oil and natural gas industry’s response to natural disasters. In response, the NPC… Continue reading Incident Response in the Oil and Natural Gas Industry: It’s All About Communications
It’s been forty years since the infamous Three Mile Island accident, an incident made famous bythe confusion and panic it spawned in its wake. But while the incident is remembered for the fear it stoked about nuclear energy, it also set the stage… Continue reading The Nuclear Industry and Communication: Lessons from Three Mile Island
When Mark Zuckerberg announced at the beginning of the month that Facebook will shift its focus to privacy-focused communications, the announcement was rightly met with skepticism. Facebook’s business model, after all, is built around t… Continue reading Facebook and Private Communications: A Matter of Incompatibility