When you get your new computer home and open it up, the first thing you usually reach for is the instructions on how to set it up. Anything that helps to convey technology, or technological processes, using any communication medium is considered technical communication. So the next time you open up that computer box, you [...]

It used to be that the best friend of any business person was their telephone. Prior to the days of fax machines, people would conduct business by phone and then correspond with paperwork through the regular US mail service. For many decades, that was the height of business communication. In the span of only 30 [...]

In the early 1950’s the idea of cable television in the United States was born. Television itself was only a few years old when the idea of creating premium television programming was created and sold to the masses. Of course, in 1952 there were not nearly as many homes with televisions in them as there [...]

Nearly everyone has a cellular phone today. The age range runs from the very elderly to young school children and for some people the cellular phone is like a credit card, it is a good idea that can go very wrong. You can maximize out a credit card if you use it too much, and [...]

Morse code is a language that was originally developed for the Morse telegraph system somewhere around the 1840’s. Samuel Morse had developed a way to transmit tones across wires, which would allow people any distance apart to be able to send each other messages consisting of different types of tones and pulses. When Morse invented [...]

If you are a native speaker of the English language, then you deserve a level of congratulations on your ability to communicate in your native language. Why? The reason is that English is considered to be the single most difficult language for people to learn. If you are a non-English speaking person then you stand [...]

What does it mean when people say someone was speaking in tongues? Essentially what it means is that some strange feeling of euphoria, or some other equally strong sensation came over the person and they began to speak in languages that they have never studied before. Many Christian groups maintain that someone who feels themselves [...]

One of the most awkward situations many people put themselves into on a daily basis is stepping into an elevator. An elevator is a very small room that moves from stop to stop, picking people up and dropping them off along the way. Your time in the elevator is short, but it can be one [...]

Years ago business was completed with a handshake and a promise for an exchange of goods. If a man gave you his word, that was as good as gold, as good as money in the bank. Does the same hold true today?  Evidence from this popular scene suggests otherwise.

Nowadays, a business deal ends with a [...]