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In the swinging sixties, Nancy’s Cafe in East Anglia’s Cley was the place to be. However, the tiny cafe in a picturesque part of the British countryside wasn’t part of the singing, dancing free-love revolution, but rather a bustling hang-out for twitchers. Bird-spotters used to flood the phone-lines with news of rare spottings or congregate over coffee to pass on helpful hints to other enthusiasts. Fifty years later and technology has finally taken over and the must have gadget for all...
•Communications Strategies in the Schoolyard
Communications strategies aren’t just the domain of the business and technology worlds. Every day in so many ways, whether we are aware of it or not, we use communications strategies in order to properly manage our lives.
Education is a sector in which effective communications strategies are vital to the smooth running of both administrational and practical matters, as well as ensuring the safety of staff and pupils. Sometimes these strategies are high profile like loudspeaker or tannoy...
•Cryptic Codes For Your Pagers
Whether you’re a flight attendant, a railway worker, or part of the emergency services, chances are you’ll be using a pager for a large portion of your professional life. So, if you’re new to the job, or even an old hand, you might be interested to discover a little more about pager code. Usually, numeric pagers are good for quick telephone numbers and little else – or so it would appear. But lurking beneath the surface is a secret, Dan Brown-esque world of ciphers and hidden messages, waiting...
•Communications Strategies on Your Travels
If you’re off travelling, the chances are you’ll be visiting countries where English is not the mother tongue. Though people may know a few words here and there, you may occasionally come unstuck whilst facing a language barrier. In these situations, alternative communications strategies are key.
Well-Known Gestures
Anyone who’s seen the film Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, will know that communications strategies involving gestures can sometimes be difficult - particularly when trying to...
•If Pagers be the Food of Life
Song lyrics today might focus more on text messages and mobile phone calls than on pagers, but that’s not to say that the pager hasn’t had its turn in the past. We take a look at the ways in which pagers have been immortalised in various song lyrics over the years.
Hit Me Baby One More Time
Now, anyone who was a child in the nineties, or even anyone who was bringing up a child in the nineties will be familiar with Britney Spears’ debut single, “Hit Me Baby One More Time”. As she burst onto the...
•Communications Strategies With a Difference
We all know the most common communications strategies that are used in our everyday life: telephones, mobile telephones, pagers, walkie-talkies, CB radios and many others that we simply couldn’t imagine doing without. But there are literally millions of different ways, both verbal and not verbal, that humans and other living creatures communicate with each other. They don’t all involve electronic devices; here are a few of the more unusual ones we have uncovered.
A Gentle Touch
Most people...
•When a Pager Calls
We all know how handy a pager can be. For a start, where would emergency services be without them? But even in our day-to-day lives, the pager has become an invaluable tool to keep us connected, not only for convenience but for safety as well. But inevitably, things can get embarrassing if your pager sets off at an inopportune moment. So, if you’ve ever had an awkward situation with your pager, then read on and you may feel a whole lot better...
Hot to Trot
A fireman was on call while he...
•3 Obscure Reasons For Owning Pagers
When we think of pagers, we automatically think of hospitals, restaurants, hotels, and other places of work where pagers are used in order to make sure things run as smoothly as possible. However, these are not the only places you will find them. We take a look at some of the slightly more obscure reasons for owning a pager.
Rare Bird Alerts
Birdwatching may not be a pastime that you particularly associate with technology, yet you would be surprised at just how often pagers are used by...
•8 Fun Things You Can Do With Pagers
When it comes to emergency situations having a pager lying around can prove to be extremely useful. Whether your wife is pregnant, or you’re sitting an exam and can’t be contacted having access to pagers is a godsend. However, when your emergency situation has passed don’t resign your pager to the kitchen drawer. Here are eight fun uses for pagers in everyday life:
Say Hello
Put a smile on your friend’s face by texting them the code 07734. They’ll be perplexed as to what you mean until they...
•3 Times When Pagers Come in Handy
Every now and then in the world of hustle, bustle and busyness that we inhabit today, everybody dreams of being incommunicado for a day or two. A short time without communication would not only be peaceful, it would give us a chance to catch up on ourselves and relax a little. However, there are some situations in which you would really appreciate having pagers to hand.
When you’re with the In-laws
There is nothing more frustrating than being stuck at the in-laws’ house whilst the most...
•Communications Strategies and Training Guide Dogs
Communicating successfully with someone that doesn’t speak English is one thing, but how do make yourself understood when the only word that that your protégé really understands is ‘walkies’? Guide dog trainers have come up with a series of successful communication strategies that allow person and pooch to work together.
Not just any puppy can go on to become a guide-dog and one of the most important aspects of raising a future guide-dog is to get it used to all kinds of different situations....
•Calling Planet Earth – Alien Communications Strategies
Is there anybody out there? It’s the million dollar question and the world is divided into the believers and the non-believers. We’re talking aliens here: little green men in silver suits and one-eyed monsters with ten-foot tentacles and laser beam eyes... Well, perhaps today’s expectations and theories about ‘outer space’, and those who may populate it, are a little more sophisticated than that; but humans have been claiming to have communicated with aliens for many years. So, with many people...
•The Different Types Of Pagers
The technology around pagers can be quite confusing. Most seem to emit nothing more than a quiet buzz, but fans of hospital dramas will recall often seeing doctors receive text messages through to their pagers. So what exactly do pagers do, and how many different types of pagers are there?
The Beeper
Ever eaten out at a fancy restaurant and wondered just how the waiting staff knew the exact moment to serve you your pudding? Your waiter was probably using a simple pager known as a beeper. The...
•Talking to the Animals - Communications Strategies
As humans, we’re used to considering ourselves the master-race in pretty much everything from evolution to technology; but if we delve a little deeper into the lives of some of our planet-mates, in fact, we could perhaps learn a lot from our fine feathered, furred or finned friends. When it comes to communications strategies, we think we’re pretty clever really; what with some mind-boggling advances in technology which allow us to be in contact with virtually anyone, anywhere at anytime....
•Communications Strategies For a Desert Island Rescue
If you’re ever unfortunate enough to find yourself stranded on a desert island, a good communications strategy can effectively improve your chances of survival. So, if you don’t know your Yamana from your Noon Gun it’s time to start swotting up; after all you don’t know when your knowledge of communications strategies will come in handy.
When you find yourself stranded on a desert island, most people’s first thoughts turn to how they’re going to get themselves rescued. Actually the majority of...
•Communications Strategy in the Army
Anyone who has ever been a member of the armed forces can vouch for the fact that it is vital to uphold a good communications strategy at all times, and the army is no exception to this rule. As such, those in roles that focus primarily on communications strategies are some of the most valuable recruits. The communications maintenance team in the army is responsible for ensuring that everyone has access to the correct information as and when they need it. They are also accountable for all...
•Three Couples’ Communication Problems Solved
Communication can be one of the most problematic aspects of any relationship, but this is no new revelation. For centuries, couples have quarrelled and quipped over undelivered (or in fact, unsent) messages, and the lack of communication in their relationships. The question is; could a pager have saved their nuptials? Had pagers been around in the days of these high profile couples of the past, perhaps their relationships might not have met such disastrous ends.
Helen of Troy and Menelaus of...
•Gone But Not Forgotten – Ancient Communications Strategies
In today’s fast-paced and hi-tech world of the Internet, instant messaging and every other possible form of digital communication, it’s easy to forget that, in the grand scheme of things, it was not so long ago that communications strategies were an entirely different kettle of fish (or pile of wood as the case may have been).
In a world obsessed with staying ‘connected’, it seems that nothing is impossible in the realms of communications strategies. What once seemed like science-fiction is...
•Tech on TV – ER Doctors on Call
In U.S. hospitals, resident doctors are frequently on call for more than 80 hours a week, and in the long-running and award winning medical drama, ER, we get a sense of this burden and strain. The hospital asks a lot of the characters in the Emergency Room, with the County General paging system constantly interrupting the lives of its staff and their pager tones and ruining their day.
Their pagers wake them when they're catching forty winks on a gurney in an exam room after pulling an all...
•The Low-Tech Communications Strategies Of Real Life Spies
Did you ever suspect that something as mundane as a park bench can be a key instrument in the communications strategy of secret agents and foreign operatives? Next time you sit down to feed the pigeons, check for a suspicious chalk mark or fresh graffiti in the wood. It could mean a handoff of information is happening nearby.
The Dead Drop
Although electronic communication and surveillance is widespread and big business, secret service agents know that the simple ways of passing messages are...
•Communications Strategies That Bond and Bauer Rely On
In action-packed television series and big screen films such as 24, James Bond and Mission Impossible, federal agents are constantly relying on communications strategies to get them through their missions unscathed. We take a look at three of the best federal and secret service agents television has ever seen.
24
Anyone who’s ever watched an episode of the hit series 24, will know that if hero of the hour, Jack Bauer, doesn’t have a gun in his hand, then he is most likely shouting “damn it”...
•The Best TV Pager Moments
Pagers are great in the middle of a crisis; at least some of our favourite TV characters certainly think so. Who could forget Ross’ numerous calls from a male prostitute in friends or the episode of Scrubs where Dr Cox finds J.D’s pager? Here are the best TV moments involving pagers.
The One with the Ick Factor
With Carol about to give birth at any moment, Ross decides that he needs a pager. However, his pager number 55-JIMBO receives numerous calls intended for a male prostitute with a...
•Is There Someone Listening? Communications Strategy in Espionage
The communications strategies of secret agencies are in operation all around us. Huge amounts of top-level boffin brainpower are put into the creating and the cracking of codes and audio surveillance, but much of what they do is already known to us. Leonardo da Vinci practised cryptology in his writing to prevent prying eyes from understanding his diaries, and who can forget the famous victory of Enigma machine? The techniques of spies past and present can be found represented in our...
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