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Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.

Business Communication Today,
10th Ed.

Excellence in Business Communication,
9th Ed.

Business Communication Essentials,
4th Ed.
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Is Your Business Communication
Textbook Preparing
Students for the Future
or the Past?
Do You Know the
Fallacies about Teaching
Electronic Media?
Does Your Textbook
Cover Business
Communication 2.0?
Video:
A Fundamental Shift in the
Way We Communicate.
(See the New Media
Covered Only by
Bovee and Thill. Are You
Using the Right Text?)
A Letter to Instructors
Video:
Alert! A Paradigm Shift Is
Impacting Business
Communication Courses
Major Study: Thousands of Companies Using Social Media. Will Your Students Be Prepared to Use Social Media on the Job?
Study: 91% Using Social Media.in the Inc. 500-- America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. (Social Media Should Be Part of Your Course. Only Bovee & Thill's Texts Offer Social Media Coverage.)
Teach Your Students How to Use Social Media on the Job. (See sample pages here of Bovee & Thill's coverage you won't find in any competing texts.)
Business Communication Is Changing Due to Social Media (Are Your Students Learning about These Changes from Your Current Text?)
Hundreds of Social Media Examples
Teach Introduction to Business?

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Electronic Media

Mistakes 22 Corporations Make with Online Media–and How to Avoid Them

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Download this PDF file Are you struggling to make sense of the changing media landscape and how to gain competitive advantage? Chances are you are looking to shift your attention from the traditional media that you know, to new media where you have much less experience. While conventional wisdom would suggest that the first to [...]

The Next Step in Revolutionary Electronics

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Accidental discovery of the elusive “memristor” electronic component. It could soon replace both RAM and hard drives with devices 10x smaller. Cell phones might become sensors, protecting planet Earth. Click here to continue…. View the original here.

Do-It-Yourself Magazines, Cheaply Slick

Monday, March 30th, 2009

For anyone who has dreamed of creating his own glossy color magazine dedicated to a hobby like photography or travel, the high cost and hassle of printing has loomed as a big barrier. Traditional printing companies charge thousands of dollars upfront to fire up a press and produce a few hundred copies of a bound [...]

First Electronic Ink Magazine Cover to Be Published

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

The first E-ink cover for a magazine will come out with the September issue of Esquire, according to Editor-in-Chief David Granger. Electronic ink paper is created by coating a surface with millions of tiny microcapsules; they have about the same diameter as a human hair. Each of the microcapsules contains positively charged white particles and [...]

Electronic Tools for Translators in the 21st Century

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The aim of this paper is to present a quick overview of a wide variety of electronic tools for Windows which make the translation process easier and faster and of which translators should have a good command in order to satisfy today’s market demands. Read the original story here If the above link is broken, [...]

Teach Your Students about Electronic Media

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Businesses continue to adopt virtually any technology that promises faster and more effective communication, and the past few years have seen astounding changes in business media habits. Practically overnight, instant messages, blogs, wikis, RSS newsfeeds (now sometimes replacing e-mail), social bookmarking, online resumes, interactive visuals, webpages, and podcasts have moved from the high-tech fringe into [...]

E-Paper? Multimedia Paper? The Future of the Newspaper

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

A popular topic these days, WashingtonPost.com opens a discussion about “The Future of The Newspaper.”  What type of electronic device will people be using to get their news in the future? And a group of Canadian scientists has found a way to produce ‘quality’ color e-paper.  Whereas many newspapers are eyeing the evolution in e-paper [...]

“Electronic Paper” Edging Toward Reality

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Electronic paper

E-Newspapers: Digital Deliverance?

Friday, February 16th, 2007

The Swedish mobile
technology ­engineer
Stig Nordqvist has a vision.
He sees millions of people
accessing up-to-the-
­minute, broadsheet-
quality news on small
handheld devices that can
stay switched on longer
than most people can stay
awake. Think iPod-plus
­connectivity-for
newshounds. When? A lot
sooner than you might
expect.IEEE Spectrum: E-
Newspapers: Digital
Deliverance?

E-Newspapers Are Just Around the Corner

Monday, January 8th, 2007

The newspapers of the future—cheap digital screens that can be rolled up and stuffed into a back pocket have been just around the corner for the last three decades. As early as this year, the future may finally arrive.  Some of the world’s top newspaper publishers are planning to introduce a form of electronic newspaper that [...]