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Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.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

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Nine Ways to Search People on the Internet

Friday, January 29th, 2010

If you are on the Web, I will find you. I know I’m not the only ‘friendly stalker’ out there. If you are looking for a long lost love, forgotten family member or are just curious if your first grade teacher is still alive, here are some tools to help!

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How to Remove Your Most Embarrassing Moments from Google

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

The mighty search engine has allowed us to do so many things. “Mighty” is the operative word, as these same search engines can also curse us all.
If you think about it, any schmuck can find out more about you than you’d like by typing only your first and last name.

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Google Gets Personal with Everyone

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Google has rolled out a dramatic new feature called “Personalized Search.” This new feature impacts all users, even if they are logged out, on the most popular search engine in the world.
Google’s Personalized Search attempts to tailor the search results for a query to each individual based upon the information Google has previously collected for [...]

Google Launches Real-Time Search

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Google announced Monday the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results.
Amit Singhal, Google fellow, introduced the real-time section during an event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. “We are here today to announce Google real-time search,” Singhal said, [...]

The Ultimate Toolkit for Searching the Social Web

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Social media has created an explosion of information online.  People are writing on blogs, tweeting, bookmarking, sharing, commenting, etc.
You no doubt want to tap into this wealth of information and learn what people are saying about you, your business, your competitors and the topics you’re interested in.
The challenge is: how to find, filter and process [...]

Google Users Can Find Data on Themselves with New Dashboard Feature

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Ever wonder what information Google knows about you? With a click or two, now you can find out.
Google released a feature Thursday that lets users see and control data that the web giant has collected about them. Called Google Dashboard, the service provides an online summary of a user’s Google files — Gmail, Google Docs, [...]

Beyond Google: Top Search Alternatives

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Have a question for the Web? For most surfers, that’s a job for Google (GOOG), which claims 64% of online searches. The site has become the go-to reference for hundreds of millions of queries every day.
But there is a growing field of upstart search sites—each with its own bag of tricks. From Microsoft’s (MSFT) new [...]

Creative Commons Launches Education Search Engine

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Creative Commons has announced the launch of DiscoverEd, a search engine of “open” educational resources. Open as in as having a CC or other license that makes them more available for use. DiscoverEd is available in beta at http://discovered.creativecommons.org.
The materials in the search engine were not gathered from an open Web crawl; [...]

What Are the Most Dangerous Search Terms on the Internet?

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

If you like to search for “music lyrics” or “free” things, you are engaging in risky cyber behavior. And “free music downloads” puts 20 percent of web surfers in harm’s way of malicious software, known as “malware.”
A new research report by U.S.-based antivirus software company McAfee has identified the most dangerous Internet search words that [...]

Six Twitter Search Services Compared

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

With developers rushing like wild dogs to build and launch applications to make your Twitter experience more productive, how can you choose which is the best tool to use if you’re running queries on your company name and competitor’s product line, or references on small-town bakeries or Red Sox pitchers?
Thankfully, there is no shortage of [...]

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