🚂 ‘Nobody has done this before’: Britain’s beloved steam trains trial pioneering technology

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/19/nobody-has-done-this-before-britains-beloved-steam-trains-trial-pioneering-technology

#uk #britain #trains #steam #retrotechnology #it #communications #railway #transportation

US defense secretary circumvents the official communications equipment

https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html

#HackerNews #USDefenseSecretary #Circumvention #Communications #Equipment #SecurityIssues #MilitaryTech

Anyone looking for some #SocialMediaMarketing, #Communications, #PR or #MediaProduction help?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fionabernard_opentowork-newgrad-communications-activity-7323333580556828672-JJDV?rcm=ACoAAAAtQK0BWS1HLsMXThNHT6OUh57S0bzJGug

#USPS #law enforcement assists #Trump ‘mass #deportation’ effort, sources and records show. The #Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal #TaskForce to locate #undocumented #immigrants using #data from #mail and #packages, according to people familiar w the effort & records obtained by WaPo. #privacy #civilliberties #communications #medicine #healthcare #checks #salary #families https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/29/usps-immigration-trump-deportations/?carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F42521bc%2F681150d765013f765d9610ff%2F63878d81c56b124f952f036c%2F45%2F81%2F681150d765013f765d9610ff

Landsat At Work – Better Wireless Communication - National Land Cover Database (NLCD), Based On Landsat, Helps Plan Clear Signal
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/news/landsat-work-a-path-better-wireless-communication <-- shared article
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https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions <-- shared about Landsat
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/annual-national-land-cover-database <-- shared about NLCD
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Landsat #remotesensing #satellite #earthobservation #fedscience #usecase #USGS #EROS #cellphone #mobilephone #telecommunications #communications #cost #benefit #wireless #towers #antennas #landcover #landuse #NLCD #radio #frequency #siting #lineofsight #clutter #economics #risk #hazard #signal #signalquality #USA #value #returnoninvestment
@USGS @USGS_EROS

If you weren't aware, also put together a newsletter once a month since ~2016.

It's a round up of great articles and links for marketing and comms.

And we just moved it to Substack.

https://monthlymarcom.substack.com/p/must-read-marketing-and-comms-articles

#publicrelations #corpcom #corpcomm #communication #communications #marcom #mediarelations #corporatecommunications #PRtips

#marketing #b2bmarketing #CMO #marketing #marketingleadership #communication #b2b #b2bsaas #saasmarketing

#vodafone #communications #mobile They lie, they cheat and hide behind so many 'franchise' operations and false ( aka 'Chinese') walls that they should be hung out to dry. Of course wee have #Ofcom , now redundant thanks to the #Tories and #LINO #Starmer has doubled down on it. They answer to no one. The #totalitarian age is here.

@huntingdon @GottaLaff yes, it is.

• #Project2025 does explicitly call for that in order to destroy #accountability & #transparency as unlike with any #SCIF-certified and #NSA-approved #communications, they get #logged and can be requested via #FIOA.

• Pretty shure @signalapp silently ignoring this happening with their tech was the deal for not getting their doors kicked in and their business shutdown as per #CloudAct.

Or @Mer__edith et. al. really think the #Trump-Regime won't come after them once they outlived their usefulness...

#Internship Opportunity!
Would you LOVE to help the International PRIDE Centre in our mission to build #LGBTQIQ+ inclusion in humanitarian action?
Please take a look at our internship opportunity for a #Communications #Intern. If you're a match, embrace this 3-4 month opportunity. dub.sh/EBIC5in

#CISA #Plankey #cybersec #NextGov #NIST #telecom #tech #data #natsec #communications #infrastructure #security

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yw6wbtma6fynxiafh5v7j5sf/post/3lk4o7nm3oc2y

Cardo unveils adapter for seamless integration with Shoei Gen 3 helmets

Following the success of the Shoei Gen 2 adapter and customer demand, Cardo has announced a new official accessory, a dedicated adapter mount for Shoei Gen 3 helmets, available from 20 April.

#Accessories #CardoSystems #Communications #Helmets #IndustryNews #LatestNews #ShoeiHelmets #Cardo #CardoSystem...
https://modernclassicbikes.co.uk/cardo-unveils-adapter-for-seamless-integration-with-shoei-gen-3-helmets/?fsp_sid=10928

This is a fantastic interview about successful messaging in the face of #Fascism and #authoritarianism. Pedro Telles co-founded Quid, a communications organization in Brazil focused on fighting right-wing extremism, which was instrumental in defeating Bolsonaro’s reelection bid in 2023.

There are so many nuggest of wisdom in the interview, such as the “three levels of influence”—local groups, followed channels, friend-followed channels—that shape a person’s mindset, and how opposition communication needs to use that to their advantage.

The success of Quid seems based on deep study and extensive (and expensive, I think) action that successfully infiltrated the media landscape to neutralize right-wing messaging. It’s their nontraditional, cool-headed, strategic methodology that makes them as formidable as Fox News.

It’s quite a read. I don’t know if anyone has risen to the challenge quite to this extent in the US.

#resistance #extremism #communications #media #strategy

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/08/strong-messaging-strategy-helped-defeat-bolsonaro-authoritarianism-brazil/

Ever feel like you're pouring all the friendship tea and getting an empty cup in return? 🤔

In episode 2 of Coffee With Crissy, we're diving into the tricky world of one-sided friendships. We'll chat about what that looks like, whether it's a sign you need to speak up, or if it's time for a friend circle refresh.


Grab your fave drink, get comfy, and let's get real about selfish friends. You deserve friendships that lift you up, and we're gonna talk about how to make that happen! ✨ Let's get into it! Total runtime: 2 min. 58 sec.

https://youtu.be/ZsY6mbg9Z-0

#friendships #communications #relationships #CoffeeWithCrissy #solopodcast #independentlyproduced

Communication Super power - The Foundations of Effective Communication: Develop strong communication behaviours to help you influence at work, communicate with clarity and stand out for the right reasons. http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/communication-basics by Rob Lambert is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #career #communications

"As Military SATCOM Use Grows, Rivals Vie to Cut SpaceX’s Market Share" by Air & Space Forces Magazine - SpaceX is the leading commercial launch vendor. The US military doesn't want to be locked in by just one vendor, and is encouraging competitors to develop diversified launch capabilities available to them. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/commercial-satcom-space-force-providers/ #satellite #communications #military #space #spacegeek

NPArevolutionnaires📢 On prend les maires pour des billes… et ils s’en aperçoivent: Assez peu connue pour son radicalisme et ses velléités contestataires, l’Association des maires de France (AMF) a boycotté la conférence de Bayrou sur les finances à laquelle elle avait été pourtant conviée. Et d’expliquer qu’il s’agissait simplement « d’une séquence de communication » en soulignant qu’« aucun… https://npa-revolutionnaires.org/on-prend-les-maires-pour-des-billes-et-ils-sen-apercoivent/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon 📢NPA-R #MairesDeFrance #Boycott #Communications #Radicalisme #Contestation

NPArevolutionnaires📢 On prend les maires pour des billes… et ils s’en aperçoivent: Assez peu connue pour son radicalisme et ses velléités contestataires, l’Association des maires de France (AMF) a boycotté la conférence de… 📢NPA-R #MairesDeFrance #Boycott #Communications #Radicalisme #Contestation

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Since “The Event” in late 2022, I have not been in a full-time role (which I’m privileged to say, has been my first time in that situation). Apart from developing my hobbies and interests into an art practice, I’ve been continuing to do some public speaking, and also freelancing as fractional lead for Developer Relations on the Mastodon project since ~May 2023.

I’m very happy and excited to share that as of early March, I’m working with Mastodon full-time, as Head of Communications.

Pivot…

A full-time role in communications is a slight pivot for me, but I can draw a through-line across all of my experience with community, public speaking, and in developer relations – Dev Rel often contains an element of acting as a translator between parties; demystifying new technologies and APIs and explaining them in layman’s terms; connecting customer feedback to the right places inside an organisation. In the case of Mastodon, I get to draw on multiple threads of experience: working adjacent to the news and Curation product teams, and also the Policy and the Trust & Safety teams, in my previous full-time role; 20+ years of Open Source (and Open Source foundation) community experience; public speaking, and writing about tech. The best part of it all is that Mastodon, the Fediverse, and Open Source, are all things that I am deeply personally invested in, and passionate about.

I’m extremely grateful to the rest of the team at Mastodon (particularly Eugen and the leadership for trusting me with the role, and also the board of our US 501(c)(3) entity who were instrumental in the decision making processes that enabled me to become involved on a full-time basis).

Looking ahead

In terms of communications strategy, I’m working on making things less reactive, more proactive. As a small, technically-focused team we have not always been able to quickly respond to media and other inquiries. My goal is that with more bandwidth to dedicate on talking to press, organisations, etc (and by decoupling these replies from being distractions or burdens on the engineering folks) we can do more to tell the story of the Fediverse, and Mastodon, more broadly. We’ll continue to work with the community as we do so – in fact, I’m hoping to hear how we can better support community efforts to share the message about ethical, more privacy-focused social web platforms, and also looking to learn about local and cultural nuances that can help us to share our story in a strong way.

You’ll see us getting more involved at conferences, community events, and in some more formal environments as well. Feel free to get in touch, if I can help – contact information is listed on the website.

image credit: Unsplash / CC BY-ND Elena Rossini

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https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/04/15/communicating-changes/

#100DaysToOffload #career #comms #communications #fediverse #Life #mastodon #openSource #publicSpeaking #storytelling

The #SocialSecurity Administration is gutting regional staff and shifting all #public #communications to X

https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/

#PSA #FYI #SSA #communication #media #PressReleases #twitter #policy #labor #PublicRelations #DOGE #government