Does digital communication come at the expense of meaningful interaction? Texting and other forms of digital communication can be easy fodder for critics who sit on the sidelines. Those quick “pings” back and forth by email, text or Tweet can’t possibly …
Microsoft released Windows 7 today. Most tech users agree, Windows 7 is essentially a big “apology” for making so many peoples’ lives so difficult, for so long, with Vista. Microsoft is expecting Windows 7 to produce a spike in tech spending – among ho …
The news cycle is filled with evidence that the book-publishing and book-selling sector is rapidly changing in ways that could pose a stiff challenge to one of the major e-retailers. Wal-Mart’s price war over best-sellers isn’t the only development that Amazon.com …
This week, the Gray Lady announced that she will eliminate 100 newsroom jobs by year’s end. Cuts and closings are old hat by now – but have you considered how much more challenging the media environment has become for PR professionals in recent years? If your ap …
Several months ago, Wakefield staff made the point in this post that digital devices are no longer seen as add-ons. In spite of the economic downturn, we argued, consumer demand for smartphones and other cutting-edge, personal-use digital devices was likely to remain fairly s …
This recession seems to have changed the employer-worker relationship in ways that will last for many years — in ways that won’t put a smile on employees’ faces. The Wall Street Journal reports on a survey revealing that 2 out of 3 large companies that have …
The financial pressures that have closed or squeezed newspapers and magazines in recent years largely come down to one thing: the “advertising recession.” Last month, Bloomberg News reported that U.S. advertising expenditures fell by 14% over the first half of the …
Data scientists who work for Facebook are using the social-networking site to create a Gross National Happiness Index (GNHI) that measures the collective happiness of Americans at various points in time. A member of the Facebook data team explains how it works: … (the i …
E-commerce enters a new arena. From the N.Y. Times’ Bits blog: When most people clean out their closet, they usually either lug the castoffs to a consignment store, trade pieces with friends or simply donate the whole lot to Goodwill. But James Reinhart, a recent gradua …
Over the past couple of decades, amid the references to “soccer moms,” an image emerged of many successful, professional white women choosing to leave the workplace and raise kids as a stay-at-home mother. Their decision to leave a successful job helped coin the t …
