Characteristics of communication

• Communication is a process – it is continuous, ongoing, and dynamic
• Communication has information (message/content)
• Communication requires a sender and a receiver
• Communication requires a medium (symbols, signs, behavior, speech, writing, or signals)
• Communication requires shared understanding – all parties understanding the same things the same way
• Communication is transactional and irreversible

 

Note: This is an extract from my book “Project Communication Management Summarized”, you may ready the book for complete context and content.

Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo has a tool called yahoo pipes which works much like a hose pipe we use in our gardens. All you have to do is fetch some data (search results maybe) and pipe it through another filter to sort and eliminate some records. That’s it…your kind of data is ready!

For non-technical people (the one who are unable to understand the above paragraph), there are pipes built by others which can be used by you. Lets say you are looking for a good deal on camera phone with Bluetooth, there is a pipe available which will search for all the deals and show you the results.

The ones I liked:

1. People Search - This tool is fetching search results from Yahoo, MSN, Google and Flickr to find any people entered with "Name FirstName".

2. Google and Yahoo news - Searches Google and Yahoo news, then merges them together into one feed.

3. Page to Podcast - This pipe extracts mp3 links from page, analyze ID3tag, and makes Podcast.

4. Meta Search Alert - This Yahoo Pipe: 1. Aggregates these search results from (Del.icio.us + Findory + Flickr + Google Blog Search + Google News + Google Search + Icerocket + Live Search + Technorati + Yahoo News + Yahoo Search); 2. Filters the results and ensures that the links are unique; 3. Sorts the results by date…

URL: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes