Although the user may have the facility to rewind and fast forward recorded audio, they cannot control the speed at which the sound is delivered; and with a live audio stream, even this capability is lost. Even when the audio is encoded in mono and at a lower sample quality, it will still be far too bulky to download or stream without extensive compression.   We continue our tour of the elements that make up all our online communications with audio. What contribution can it make?

Stories have an emotional component and when you engage people's emotions, even just a little bit, you stand a better chance of them paying attention and remembering your point (whether or not they agree with you is another matter entirely). People remember when emotions are triggered Early this week four students in my Japanese labor management class did a presentation on employment security in Japan. Again, experience may be best, but we can also use storytelling and other methods to get people's emotions involved and to get them more engaged with the content in a deeper,

It seems to me, this is acknowledgement that every company, even Google, needs to integrate working with MS document. DocVerse is a company Google purchased last week that aims at making it's online Google Apps more appealing to MS Office users. DocVerse is ironically a startup founded by two former Microsoft key employees. Colaboration