WHERE IC PROFESSIONALS COME TO TALK
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CONNECTING COMMUNITIES
Technology has become so central to the way we communicate every day that it’s easy to take it for granted. Jonny Oser, Facebook’s head of internal communications EMEA, reflects on how tools designed to keep us in touch with others internally and externally can be both inspiring and functional.
We all know the story. In 2004, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg wrote the code for an online directory of photos and short biogs of Harvard undergraduates. Within a couple of months, The Facebook, as it was known, opened up to Columbia, Stanford and Yale students and, the following year, high school pupils, UK universities and employees from selected companies, such as Apple and...
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