Recommended Texts

Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.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

How These Texts Compare
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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Create Online Video That Works

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

With the recent explosion and expansion of online video, the biggest question is how to best drive viewer action and monetize this new medium. Online video has a lot of promise. It offers what was once limited to expensive TV advertising: reach and emotional engagement with potential customers. And, it’s relatively cheap and provides immediate, [...]

Make Free Telephone Calls via the Internet: How to Skype

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

A step-by-step tutorial on how to use Skype for free telephone calls via the Internet. View the original here.

How to Use Skype for Business: Video Tutorial

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Easy and effective ways to use Skype in business. View the original here.

Crisis Communication in the YouTube Age

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Download this PowerPoint file This 54-slide presentation discusses how to handle a crisis in this YouTube age. It includes some fascinating case studies of communication that has gone awry.

How to Download, Install, and Use Google Talk on your PC

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Start instant messaging by using Google Talk. This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to download, install, and use it. View the original here.

Video Phones Are Coming. And This Time It's for Real

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Dreams of video phones have been around since before Dick Tracy swapped his 2-Way Wrist Radio for a 2-Way Wrist TV in 1964. These days the technology is vastly improved. Forget tiny screens with fuzzy picture quality and voice-synchronization reminiscent of old Godzilla movies. Thanks to powerful microprocessors and luminous screens, smartphone video can look [...]

How to Master Screencasts in Seven Steps

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Making screencasts (also known as “video tutorials”) is already easy, and becomes easier with better tools and broadband proliferation. However, no tech is complete without a human who dives in, does experiments, and discerns best practices from the results. I’ve made over 200 video tutorials, mostly for the virtual world of Second Life, and I’ve [...]

The Future of Mobile Media and Communication

Monday, April 5th, 2010

SIMYO and Ahead of Time presents the future of mobile media and communication. View the original here.

Five Things You Probably Don't Know About YouTube Videos

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

You probably know that YouTube is, by far, the top video destination on the Web. Here are some things about YouTube, though, that you probably don’t know: View the original here.

What You Should Know about Screencasting

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

It sounds so similar to broadcasting and podcasting that maybe the name itself suggests what screencasting is about: recording (capturing) the screen activity of a software program in order to create a movie, which you can later show to your audience. Basically, screencasting is capturing sequences of pictures of the screen (also referred to as [...]

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