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Glossophobia (or speech anxiety) is simply the fear of public speaking. It is considered the number 1 phobia (in the US and in the world) and ranks alongside fear of flying (aerophobia) and fear of heights (acrophobia). The Wikipedia page on Glossophobia…
This piece of news – from Bangalore Mirror – completely shook me up this morning. It is shocking at many levels. At a basic level, it is about an employee filing a police complaint against 4 of his bosses…not over a personal…
For the sake of gender-sensitivity, here’s the full title: What does the ‘gets’ in ‘He/she gets social media’ mean? I have often heard some people referring to some others as a person who ‘gets’ social media. Some have also told me that,…
Update (Feb.21, 2011): Winner of the giveaway is Mehernosh Shapoorjee @noshtradamus I was one of the 75 winners of the ‘The Now Revolution‘ blogger program. I’m a s-l-o-w reader and even though I buy books by the dozen (almost impulsively), I read…
I spoke about social media engagement in a local group I’m part of, recently – it is a Bangalore-based group of corporate communication and marketing communication professionals and has been in existence for over a decade now. Last Friday, I spoke to…
I had written about the problem of creating our own little worlds via our own little sources of information yesterday. Now, here’s a related observation…may be a problem too. Let me start with an example. You read the technology section of your…
Back in the days when I was a ‘client’ (a corporate communications professional in an organization, for the uninitiated), the day after a big announcement (every announcement was big, to any client) was very important. It would be spent in frenzied scanning…