IT Workers’ Holidays

Perhaps IT workers aren’t taking enough holiday?

Research from the IT Job Board is revealing – and is perhaps something we can all learn from:

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/emerging-tech-and-trends/did-you-take-your-holiday-40663

Claire Thompson, freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR

Facebook Week: Tempero and Conversocial

Conversocial is a splinky software tool that helps make Facebook pages manageable.

Social media management company Tempero has wrapped a moderation service around it, ensuring that the right person with an organisation responds to what guests are saying/asking on Facebook pages.

Which is pretty powerful – a tool to manage, and a mediator to ensure that companies really do engage.

It’s still down to the company/organisation to decide what action to take, but as a lot of the legwork and perameters are set from day one, this has to make life easier, and must ensure that Facebook page guests are well looked after – no missed posts allowed as excuses. So whilst it wouldn’t avoid a situation blowing up where responses are inappropriate, it should reduce that risk by ensuring that responses are in the right hands, promptly.

It’s not just about brand protection – answering questions, letting people know about promotions, sharing fun stuff: it’s a tool and service that I think should increase positive engagement.

And the press release is here: Tempero Teams with Conversocial to Provide Advanced Facebook Page Management for the First Time

The Difference Engine – deadline extended

Incubator/accelerator programme The Difference Engine has extended it’s deadline for applications, for various reasons, the most important being that it gives applicants worldwide longer to apply.

As Jon Bradford, the founder, explained, he’s had endless invites to talk at events that he can’t attend ahead of the closing deadline

So it makes sense to push things back, as he explained on The Difference Engine news blog.

Claire Thompson, freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR

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News: Funkwerk Dabendorf Joins Z-Three Portfolio

July 12, 2010 – European in-car communications specialist, Funkwerk Dabendorf (FwD) has become the latest specialist supplier to join the rapidly growing portfolio of smartphone accessories’ distributor, Z-Three. Funkwerk Dabendorf has been helping phone owners go ‘hands free’ when driving for more than a decade, and Z-Three is the first distributor to bring its hands-free car kits to the UK.

“We now boast one of the widest ranges of high quality Smartphone accessories available to resellers and corporates in the UK,” said Phillip Gutzwiller, Commercial Director, Z-Three.

Funkwerk Dabendorf’s Audio 2000 range boasts a wide variety of cradles for different smartphones, including the BlackBerry, which allow phones to charge and to operate hands-free in a car.  Holders are simply placed on a base plate in the cabin, making replacing them quick and uncomplicated. A connected exterior antenna ensures good reception and voice quality, and radiation levels are reduced to a minimum. Radio mute, echo and noise suppression are included as standard. Read more »