by Rob Cottingham | Dec 7, 2011 | Social Signal, Speechwriting
Speechwriting is a notoriously solitary profession. You might have a few conversations with a client, their staff or — if you’re writing for yourself — a mirror. But a lot of your work is going to be just you, a keyboard and the unforgiving blank s…
by Rob Cottingham | Dec 5, 2011 | Social Signal
Gmail has had a very interesting redesign. (I love the big fat red “Compose” button. Doesn’t work on me, though; I press it, and I’m just as anxious as ever.) You can read about some of the details on the Gmail blog, including an account of the choices…
by Rob Cottingham | Nov 1, 2011 | Social Signal
Some big changes came yesterday to Google Reader, the venerable RSS newsreader that has become part of the texture of daily online life for a lot of us. The design has changed dramatically, in line with changes made to most other Google services. But t…
by Rob Cottingham | Oct 12, 2011 | Social Signal
If you’ve had the same experience of Google+ that I have, then you’re probably loving the more expansive conversational room, the in-context shared content, the simplicity of Circles, the immediacy of Hangouts.
But you may be missing the handy tools th…
by Rob Cottingham | Jul 8, 2011 | Social Signal
If you’ve managed to sprint inside of Google+ during one of those brief periods when the front door has been left ajar, then the first thing you’ve seen has been Google Circles. It allows you to organize your contacts into lists, based on how you k…