For Immediate Release

In addition to news items and in-depth discussion of trends and issues, you'll hear the Internet Society's Dan York report on technologies of interest to communicators.

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FIR #302: Blockchain's Widely Exaggerated Demise
Despite proclamations that blockchain never held any promise, innovations just keep on coming
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FIR #301: A Communicator's Look at ChatGPT
A new AI text generator is provoking a lot of experimentation along with some consternation
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FIR #300: Communicating Pay Transparency
New Laws Are Forcing Companies' Hands. Those Unprepared Need Their Communicators Now More Than Ever
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FIR #299: From the Metaverse to the Fediverse a...
Twitter's Demise Could Have Severe Implications for Society, but then again, Mastodon is Rising
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FIR #298: Social Listening in a Post-Twitter World
If Twitter Fails, Will the Ability to Monitor Social Media Trends Die With It?
17 min
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FIR #297: A Stirling Example of Augmented Reality
A Scottish City is the First to Deliver a Citywide AR Experience
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FIR #296: What Elon Musk Can Learn from Patrick...
Twitter's mishandled layoff stands in stark contrast to the compassionate approach taken at Stripe
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FIR #295: The Value-Add Potential of NFTs
At an NFT conference in London, the buzz wasn't about digital art investments
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FIR #294: What Hath Elon Wrought?
Interbrand is advising companies to pause Twitter advertising. Here's why.
13 min
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FIR #293: Big Changes at Wikipedia
Non-Wiki Tech Will Make Life Easier for New Volunteer Editors
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FIR #292: The Sure And Steady Evolution of NFTs
From Anthony Hopkins to a San Diego car wash, savvy creators are experimenting and succeeding
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FIR #291: Adding AI to Applications
Standalone AI tools are fun but baking them into larger applications is where the real benefits happen
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FIR #290: Alas, Poor GIF, We Knew You Well
Time is running out for the venerable GIF
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FIR #289: Bloggers, AI, and the Future of PR
A New Blogger Survey, DALL-E 2 Coming to Office 365, and More
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FIR #288: A Humanoid Robot Artist Gives Testimony
Ai-Da's work hangs in a museum, raising all kinds of questions
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FIR #287: Internal Podcasts Gain Momentum
Driven by the pandemic, communicators and leaders turned to podcasts to create connection
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FIR #286: Managers Believe Remote Work Produces...
Study Finds Huge Gap Between Perceptions of Workers and Bosses
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FIR #215: Alignment Through Conversation
Academic Study Suggests Talking it Out Can Lead to a Shared View of Things
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FIR #284: Ad Agencies Embrace AI Image Generators
Services like DALL-E and Midjourney save time and money
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FIR #283: Communicators Helping Leaders Lead Th...
Neville and Shel Recorded In Person in England to Discuss Leadership Communication
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FIR #282: If You Need Me, Text Me
Increasingly, businesses are forsaking email in favor of text messaging
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FIR #281: Advertising and Marketing in the Meta...
Everything will be different when consumers are immersed in a 3D environment
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FIR #280: What's Behind the "Quiet Quitting" Tr...
TikTok Has Been Lit Up with Videos About Quiet Quitting and News Outlets are Paying Attention
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FIR #279: Business Buys Into the Metaverse
A PwC Study Finds All Industries Anticipate Doing Business in the Metaverse
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FIR #278: For Every News Outlet: Churn, Churn, ...
Repurposed third-party content has become a staple of financially-stressed news outlets
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