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Using Social Media in Business Disputes "Large companies frequently exploit their vastly superior legal resources and capabilities to the disadvantage of smaller competitors.

#dispute #law #social media #Tesla

How Google and Coursera may upend the traditional college degree | Brookings Institution

The following article caught my interest because of the direction of education as revealed in this news. Rather than talk of online offerings replacing digital education, we see how more cost effective hybrid offerings are developed cooperatively with accredited institutions. Now we have a model that can work, and indeed an interesting development. More about these “nanodegrees” below.…

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Asian Management Insights – Smart Cities, Innovation, and Digital Genomes I am pleased to share that the latest issue of Asian Management Insights has reached my desk.

A World Without Secrets: How Predictive Analytics Can Challenge Privacy

Recently we had the honor of welcoming Prof. Alessandro Acquisto to the SMU campus. In this Distinguished Lecturer talk, we learn about the value of privacy in this technological age. Certainly, a topic worthy of a few minutes of our time. https://youtu.be/DypWdImEOOM

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For Immediate Release #824: Final Episode of the Hobson & Holtz Report

https://communicateasia.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/asia-report-7-sept.mp3 I invite you all to listen to episode #824 of For Immediate Release. This week our hosts ask if SEO is really dead? And, after a decade, our distinguished co-host Neville has decided to take some time off of podcasting. Thus, at least for the Hobson & Holtz Report, this is my final report from Asia. This week I share…

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For Immediate Release #824: Fantastic Final Episode of This Long-Running Popdcast

https://communicateasia.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/asia-report-7-sept.mp3 I invite you all to listen to episode #824 of For Immediate Release. This week our hosts ask if SEO is really dead? And, after a decade, our distinguished co-host Neville has decided to take some time off of podcasting. Thus, at least for FIR, this is my final report from Asia. This week I share why I will be keeping a…

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In Search of the Anti-Uber: The Companies Redefining the Sharing Economy - The Atlantic

In Search of the Anti-Uber: The Companies Redefining the Sharing Economy – The Atlantic

The classic tension between profits and priorities. “The frame of the sharing economy has been destroyed or radically challenged by people who are just trying to maximize their profits as their primary, sole goal,” says Adam Werbach, a former Sierra Club national president who co-founded Yerdle, a website and mobile app conceived as a means of encouraging people to give away their used goods.…

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From Cecil the Lion to Climate Change: A Perfect Storm of Outrage Oneupmanship - The Atlantic

From Cecil the Lion to Climate Change: A Perfect Storm of Outrage Oneupmanship – The Atlantic

I find it hard to disagree with the author. I am not so sure that the rightness or wrongness of this assertion is the issue. Instead, understanding the larger pattern by which issue evolve online is worthwhile for communicators to understand. “The Internet launders outrage and returns it to us as validation, in the form of likes and stars and hearts. The greatest return comes from a strong and…

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The Procrastination Doom Loop—and How to Break It - The Atlantic

The Procrastination Doom Loop—and How to Break It – The Atlantic

When scientists have studied procrastination, they’ve typically focused on how people are miserable at weighing costs and benefits across time. For example, everybody recognizes, in the abstract, that it’s important to go to the dentist every few months. The pain is upfront and obvious—dental work is torture—and the rewards of cleaner teeth are often remote, so we allow the appointment to slip…

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The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing — HBS Working Knowledge

Here we have two HBS research studies looking at information disclosure/hiding in the online world, and the audience’s attribution of acceptability that follows when they recognize that some information is perhaps being hidden (or not). Despite the author’s best efforts, I am not sure a clear conclusion emerges from these studies but they do ask some very interesting questions that communicators…

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#full disclosure #HBS #information sharing #transparency

This Week in Asia: Social Commentary Around Singapore's Domestic Workers

This Week in Asia: Social Commentary Around Singapore’s Domestic Workers

https://communicateasia.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/asia-report-april-27.mp3

Mums and Maids, a YouTube video generating some debate on this tropical isle, perhaps deserves more credit than local media coverage and public discussion currently grants. Some have taken exception to the video’s portrait of maids who know children better than the parentsin this video. The argument is that parents…

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#igiveadayoff #civil society #Singapore

This Week in Asia: China Mounts a Canon Atop Its Great Firewall

This week I share 3 items that may interest my APAC readers.

China adds a new weapon to its web control arsenal. While many links are available, this one is courtesy of Fortune.

Hank Paulson’s new book, Dealing with China, is receiving favourable comments from may China watchers. I wonder if the timing of this book makes him a possible candidate for a VP nomination or embassy nominee? hmmm

A…

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#Asia #China #For Immediate Release

The Connection Between Facebook and Unhappiness -- Science of Us

The Connection Between Facebook and Unhappiness — Science of Us

Need a good reason to ignore your friends’ fake-ation photos? Continue reading to learn how these photos, at least in part, resonate through one popular social network.

The authors write, “Both studies provide evidence that people feel depressed after spending a great deal of time on Facebook because they feel badly when comparing themselves to others.” The researchers also tested the reverse…

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#depression #Facebvook

For A Change...Good News Regarding a Corporate Cover-Up

For A Change…Good News Regarding a Corporate Cover-Up

Ever since listening devices were found at Democratic Party HQ in Washington’s Watergate building, the suffix “gate” has been appended to high-level scandals. But it was not until 2013 that the conspiracy that brought down a US president was equated with see-through yoga pants. This week, pant designer Lululemon told latter-day Woodward and Bernsteins it had recovered from ‘Sheergate’. A…

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#FT

3 Good Reads for Your Sunday Morning

Selecting only 3 good reads this weekend has been a challenge. Given the plethora of sharing around the passing of Singapore’ Lee Kuan Yew, I could probably select 3 from that theme alone. But wanting to spread the wealth, here are 3 reads which I hope add some richness to your morning.

The Wise Man of the East. Economist has published what I believe is one of the more thoughtful remembrances…

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This Week in Asia for March 24

This week, upon the passing of Lee Kuan Yew, I share different views I gathered in obituaries from around the world, and the evolution of my own thoughts about Singapore’s founding father. In short, part of his brilliance and success was genuinely knowing what it took to read the context, govern in Singapore, and build the nation.

Congratulations to Shel and Neville for having delivered 800…

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#For Immediate Release #Lee Kuan Yew #LKY #Singapore

10 facts about technology use in the emerging world | Pew Research Center

This item has been siting on my desktop for a couple days, but happy to finally share some of the latest Pew research insights.

The Pew Research Center surveyed thousands of people across 32 emerging and developing nations about their technology use and how the rising influence of the internet affects their daily lives. But beyond the larger findings, we found some notable data points about…

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#Asia #China #emerging markets #pew #Philippines #social media

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