Communication…dictionarily is the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium. It’s essential to humankind and allows us to live, work, trade and co-exist. It’s the basis of society, culture and civilizations and through communication there’s understanding and establishment of common beliefs. Continue reading
Orders and being ordered can mean many things to many people. In biology order concerns the taxonomic rank for classifying organisms. More generally speaking it concerns the arrangement of people or things in relation to each other in some form of pattern, sequence, or method. Alternatively, it can mean an authoritative command or instructions that are, typically, conveyed in a particular sequence. When ordering a meal, for example, it’s normally done in the order in which the food will be served, but that’s always best clarified in some countries! Continue reading
Project documentation; the bane of some people’s lives, for other’s their raison d’être. Documentation is essential and its written word can ensure effective communication so there is as little misunderstanding as possible. Requirements will be definitive, obligations and liabilities will be unambiguous, and instructions will be clear. Continue reading
There is no doubt that the appearance and subsequent outbreak of COVID wreaked havoc on the world’s population humanitarianly, medically, socially, politically, and economically. The death toll, albeit far less than predictions, -unfortunately happened. The declared pandemic is now considered to be endemic. We are told that the lockdowns, travel restrictions, and social distancing helped but, above all, the vaccines ‘saved us’, as will the boosters as more information comes to light and more data is gathered, and statistics are revisited. Continue reading
Video Killed the Radio Star…went the 1979 music video by The Buggles. MTV used this as their first ever video in 1981, but despite the prophecy and MTV’s 40 ongoing years, radio stars aren’t dead. Radio revolutionised popular music, vinyl discs gave us today’s disc jockeys but even though technology evolves it demonstrates that the fittest will survive and not everything will be killed. Continue reading