But as people engaged in perfecting marketing communications, it struck us like a lightning bolt.
Home Office security and counter-terrorism head Charles Farr told the committee that existing provisions had been "overtaken by technical changes in the communications industry and in the way people use communication, with the result that the data that public authorities have had access to in the past is no longer as readily available to them as it used to be".
These people often find themselves in marketing or communications.
While the communications people operate almost exclusively in the world of perceptions, the field people operate in the world of hard data.
Skype is the dominant player in Internet audio and video communications--people use "Skype" as a verb--and now Microsoft owns it.
Networked communications are changing the organisations that people work in too.
The technology is transparent, likely with low running costs and wide-area effectiveness, once baseline infrastructure is in place across devices, communications, and trained people.
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But in terms of communications, the reality is that people like to hear about big famous firms that they already know to some extent.
Invest in people with the right skills and level of maturity for your communications programs.
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Did the administration, did Treasury Secretary Geithner, anyone in the administration similarly have any private communications with market people about how the markets might react, given the fragility of the economy?
Second is People and Power, which provides data in separate subsections on population change, communications and energy production.
There is also a huge market for machine-to-machine wireless communications (there are more machines in the world than people) and I will be discussing that aspect of wireless in a future posting.
People would freak out if Google were to go digging for sentiment in their private communications and share that with a media organization.
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But Williams countered that the advances in communications technology that Jobs pushed underlay the ability of those angry people to make themselves heard.
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For most people in poor countries, he thinks, mobile phones are fast becoming the main communications tool, schoolbook, vaccination record, family album and many other things.
Ukrainian has become more popular: people in their twenties and thirties write and read in Ukrainian, using it for corporate communications, along with English and Russian.
Sociologists in particular are trying to figure out how mobile communications are changing interactions between people.
By contrast, scandal-plagued Qwest Communications (nyse: Q - news - people ) comes in at 4.3%.
This blog is the third in a series of blogs on people that have added something important to the world of communications.
This blog is the seventh in a series of blogs on people that have added something important to the world of communications.
This blog is the fifth in a series of blogs on people that have added something important to the world of communications.
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world.
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To do the job well requires vision, the communications skills to articulate that vision, and the ability to make people believe in the vision.
SocialEyes has a long way to go for success, primarily in attracting people and getting them happy over what amounts to a new form of group communications.
South Africans are more active on Twitter than people from any other country in Africa, according to a study issued in January by Portland Communications and Tweetminster.
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In Nashville, the Tennessee Titans need a new sponsor for Adelphia Coliseum, now that Adelphia Communications (otc: ADELQ - news - people ) is in Chapter 11 proceedings.
L-3 Communications ( LLL - news - people ) has seen big swings in its market value, ultimately slipping 3.1% since January.
Aura is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer backed in part by Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ), which specializes in using magnetic technology as opposed to radio signals for near-field communications.
The Labour leader accused Mr Cameron of "consistently ignoring warnings" about his director of communications and said people would have expected "very loud alarm bells" to ring in Mr Cameron's mind following allegations in the New York Times.
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For Facebook, the communications piece is crucial, as Facebook has always been a place for people to keep in touch via photos or status updates.
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