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Business Communication Today,
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Excellence in Business Communication,
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Business Communication Essentials,
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Textbook Preparing
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or the Past?
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Fallacies about Teaching
Electronic Media?
Does Your Textbook
Cover Business
Communication 2.0?
Video:
A Fundamental Shift in the
Way We Communicate.
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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
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Wikis

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How to Set Up and Use Wikispaces

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

This is a step-by-step tutorial for Wikispaces. View the original here.

Collaborative Tools: Wikis

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Download this PowerPoint file This 32-slide presentation discusses the importance of wikis and how they create greater efficiency in the workplace.

Getting Wiki with It

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Catherine Holahan from Business Week talks to Arun Sundararajan, Professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, about how wikis are changing businesses. Click here to continue…. View the original here.

Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They?

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Download this PowerPoint file This 24-slide presentation discusses their brief history of wikis, the various types of wikis. and how wikis are used.

Wikis: The Crown Jewels of Collaboration

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

A wiki can allow people on different continents to work together, or it can improve the efficiency of a six-person office. It’s all because wikis encourage collaboration. View the original here.

Howard Rheingold: Way-New Collaboration

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action, and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. View the original here.

Wikis in the Workplace: A Practical Introduction

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

The wiki crops up in many companies’ internal discussions about process improvements and efficient collaboration, but it is often shot down because so few people have exposure to good models of what a really successful business wiki can do. Here is a practical introduction based on real-world examples, View the original here.

Putting Wikis to Work

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

First appearing in 1995, the “wiki” approach to creating interactive and collaborative Web pages quickly became the star format for social networks, but too often business also-rans. Part of the problem comes from top-down managers uncomfortable with underlings making changes without authorization, and from stories of update wars on the most famous wiki, Wikipedia, the [...]

Wiki Myths, Wiki Reality

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Although wikis have gained substantially in popularity since they first appeared some ten years ago, many enterprises still begin their wiki projects with unrealistic expectations. While researching the impact of wikis during recent work on the Enterprise Social Software Report and Wiki in the Enterprise, we heard of frequent struggles getting wiki projects off the [...]

What Are Wikis? How Do They Work?

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Download this PowerPoint file This 50-slide presentation covers the “what,”, “why,” and “how” of wikis.

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