Posts Tagged ‘business’

14 Web Apps for Your Portable Office

Last week we talked about setting up your flash drive so that you had a “portable office” of sorts wherever you go. This week we’ll take it a step further and look at the web apps you can use: all you’ll need to ensure is that the computer you’re “borrowing” has a good browser installed.

In recent times, people have become less and less fearful of putting their data in… » Continue

July 7 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: business, Communication, office, organization, webapps | 12 comments»

4 Effective Presentation Techniques

Every once in a while, we are entrusted with the task of presentation. It may be to demo a new product, to present a plan or to explain a new process that you’ve helped create. Whatever the reason and however many presentations you’ve given before, it’s something that not everyone is comfortable doing.

Here are some of the presentation techniques that I’ve learnt in my experience to help you conduct an… » Continue

July 4 2008 | By Raj | Tagged: business, meeting, presentation, presenting, public-speaking | 3 comments»

4 Tech Tips to Keep Ahead of the Game for New Entrepreneurs

Thinking about starting a business or trying to make some cash out of the web? Technology can enable people and it can just as easily distract. We’ve got a few tips for you to consider to cut down on those distractions and costs and get more done, more efficiently and more effectively.

These tips all center on one thing: technology, whether it involves a specific device or just the way… » Continue

June 19 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, gps, information, rss, skype, u, virtual assistant | 9 comments»

How to Write (in a thousand words or less)

I’ve written about editing, eliminating distractions, getting started – it’s time to get down to basics. Too many people don’t know how to write. Period. Yeah, they can make marks on paper, but when it comes to making a clear, compelling, and meaningful statement, especially one more than 140 characters long, they fail.

So here, in no particular order, are 17 ways to make your… » Continue

June 11 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, communicating, editing, student, writing | 18 comments»

Six Great Ways to Ruin a Brainstorm

The brainstorm is the most popular group creativity exercise. It is quick, easy and it works. But many organizations have become frustrated with brainstorms and have stopped using them. They say brainstorms are old-fashioned and no longer effective. But the real reason for the frustrations is that the brainstorms are not facilitated properly. A well-run brainstorm is fun and energetic. It will generate plenty of good ideas. But a poor… » Continue

May 1 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: brainstorm, business, idea, meeting, thinking | 7 comments»

The Other Epidemic Of Obesity

It’s high time business slimmed down and stopped fooling itself with crash ‘diets’ of job cuts and outsourcing

The media are happy to keep reminding us that people in the developed world, especially the United States, are growing ever fatter; that obesity starts in childhood and continues thereafter to pump itself up on a diet of junk food, sodas, and ’super-sized’ portions.

Yet what we almost never hear about is… » Continue

April 23 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: business, career, success, waste | 5 comments»

10 Steps To Working On The Road

Even if your work doesn’t need to be done in an office, it can be very hard to work when you travel. You may be a freelancer, you may own your business, or you may telecommute, but there are ten steps you need to take to prepare yourself to work on the go. They’re especially key for long-term travel, but if you’re only going for a week, consider making… » Continue

March 20 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: business, travel, work | 21 comments»

How to Write a Business Letter That Gets Results

I can’t tell you how many truly awful letters I’ve had to read in my life. As a former administrative assistant, I was responsible for all the unsolicited submissions to a major New York museum. Artists and collectors all over the country (and abroad) wrote to have their work considered for display or acquisition, and to be honest the decision frequently rested more on the quality of their cover… » Continue

March 10 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, Communication, letter, persuasion, writing | 16 comments»

How to Create Connection in the Workplace: A Review of “Fired up or Burned Out” by Michael Lee Stallard

How do business leaders create a sense of connection and shared passion in their organizations? How can you make your employees (and by extension you r company) more productive and more innovative — instead of struggling to maintain the status quo?

These are the questions that Michael Lee Stallard sets out to answer in his book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and

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February 15 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, connection, corporation, leadership, Management, relationships | 12 comments»

Building Relationships: 11 Rules for Self-Promotion

It’s no secret: to get ahead, you have to promote yourself. But for most people, the thought of promoting themselves is slightly shady. Images of glad-handing insurance salesmen or arrogant know-it-alls run through our heads.

The reality is that we all rely on some degree of self-promotion. Whether you want to start your own business, sell your novel to a publisher, start a group for your favorite hobby, or… » Continue

February 8 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, freelancing, marketing, networking, promotion, relationship | 21 comments»

How to Free Yourself from Paper Clutter

I frequently chase the dream of being paperless. But I have come to the brink of acceptance: for me, it will never be wholly achievable. You will always need some papers to actually exist in physical form. Even with the theory of a paperless office, clutter still manages to amass somewhere. Whether it’s on your desk or on your hard drive, you know if you… » Continue

January 31 2008 | By AJ | Tagged: business, finance, paperless, paperwork, taxes | 10 comments»

Key to Innovation: Becoming an Observer

We all need to innovate to stand out from the crowd. But what is the key to innovation? The answer, or at least an important answer, is becoming an observer. By observing how we and other people do things, we will spot opportunities for improvements. The more we observe, the more opportunities we will find. We can then work to provide solutions for some of the problems. By becoming… » Continue

January 24 2008 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, business, creativity | 18 comments»

How to Get Gutsy

“If you wanna run with the big dogs, you’ve gotta get off the porch.” This was the sage advice given to me some years ago as I considered my first entrepreneurial venture. You’ve got to take risks. Be gutsy. All of which led me to wonder what guts really is. And, more importantly, if you don’t have it, can you get it?

What is… » Continue

December 10 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: achievement, business, networking, speaking | 9 comments»

5 Ways to Profit from Good Ideas

Turning a good idea into a successful innovation requires the glass to be full. A half full glass simply isn’t enough. There are many things involved in bringing a product to market successfully or turning an idea into reality and each one of them needs to be right, or at least close enough. The innovator starts the process with a set of resources and draws upon them until the… » Continue

November 22 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: business, idea, marketing | 8 comments»

Improve Your Writing with these Editing Tips

Teachers, business people, and just about everyone else it seems complain often and loudly that people today (usually “kids today”) don’t know how to write. I’m convinced, though, that a big part of the problem (perhaps the biggest part of the problem) is that people don’t know how to edit. We labor under the notion that good writing flows easily from the pen or typing fingers, and… » Continue

November 2 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, Communication, editing, howto, student, writing | 63 comments»