Productivity

This white paper reviews how utilizing an integrated approach to incorporating content from collaborative sources can reduce business and IT risks and costs.
The rapid adoption of social computing has created opportunities for enterprises to improve their competitive positions in today’s knowledge economy.
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Download this free white paper, Ten Tips for Better Web Meetings, and find out how to maximize Web conferencing solutions.
It’s a fast, easy and free way to learn how to stay focused on your meeting instead of the technology. Topics include:

The basic steps to a successful meeting
Tips for gauging audience interest
Creating meeting “attention-grabbers”
Keeping the audience [...]

The IT help desk is a high-stress environment — and sometimes it can feel downright chaotic. While the obvious objective is to resolve technical issues, IT help desks also battle call length, employee dissatisfaction and low morale.
IDC predicts that by 2011, 73 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile, inevitably increasing the pressure on [...]

I’ve talked several times about GoToAssist Express. We’ve even done several videos in the past months where we featured the product. However, I realized today that I’ve not sat down and written a post about this excellent piece of software from my own point of view.
If you are a tech or small business owner, you [...]

For a single mom with three kids, two of them teens, keeping a schedule is complicated enough. Add someone like me to the mix and things get out of hand pretty quick. Because that’s the situation my soon-to-be-wife Laura and I have created, I’ve been asked/directed to figure out a good, friendly, reliable and especially [...]

Aberdeen research shows that best-in-class companies are using key technologies and services in combination with developing critical organizational capabilities and strategies to improve compliance with corporate Travel and Entertainment (T&E) policies.
T&E is an area of significant spending within a company and continues to grow, forcing companies to devote their attention to how best to manage [...]

My co-workers and I recently relocated to new office space. Unpacking my boxes got me thinking about how I was going to set up my desk space so that it was clean and organized. Given that I spend most of my day at my desk, I wanted to make sure it was both productive and [...]

You are probably asking yourself how the words “meeting” and “fun” can co-exist in the same sentence. Meetings are generally not fun and many people believe that meetings are no place for fun. However, given that the average employee typically runs the other direction when invited to attend another meeting or fakes a scheduling conflict, [...]

Do your technicians do real work or paperwork? Learn how to increase worker productivity.
More and more companies are automating their mobile service workforce to eliminate paperwork and manual data collection and improve worker efficiency. By eliminating paper-based forms and one-way communication processes with mobile computing and wireless technologies, companies see immediate efficiency and accuracy benefits.
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This white paper defines the framework to launch eLearning as a set of teaching, training, and learning practices not bound by a specific technology platform or learning management system.
The use of eLearning is reemerging as a solution for delivering online, hybrid, and synchronous learning regardless of physical location, time of day, or digital reception or [...]

Here’s an online tax application that is designed to be simple and fast.
Most returns can be completed within 30 minutes.
FreeTaxUSA guarantees the accuracy of its tax calculations. If you are assessed any IRS penalties and/or interest due to a calculation error in the software, FreeTaxUSA will pay the interest and penalties.
FreeTaxUSA is an authorized IRS [...]

Ahhh, a big thank you to Google. I can now sync both directions between Outlook 2007 and my Google Calendar account thanks to Google Calendar Sync. Simply install one little program that occupies (another) space in the taskbar, and set it to sync as often as you wish. Simple as that. I like simple.
I just [...]

In the last few companies I worked with before becoming a full-time content maven, we knew and heard about colleagues who work over 12-hour days on a regular basis. I’ve put in a couple of long hours over my career, but never on a daily basis. Based on experience, it doesn’t make sense why companies [...]

How to Ruin Web Design — The Design Curve is a simple and accurate view of what happens to a design when more people get involved in providing feedback and the time spent in changing the design. [Link from Web 2.0 Blog]
If you don’t read the rest of this entry — this picture tells all [...]

Attensa, Inc., the leading developer of RSS software for businesses, today introduced significant enhancements to the Attensa Feed Server, a dedicated Web feed server designed to distribute internal and external Web feeds to users and groups behind the firewall. The latest version of the enterprise RSS leader’s comprehensive, end-to-end solution is a milestone achievement in [...]

Telecom Brokerage, Inc. proudly announces a cutting-edge learning tool designed exclusively for its agents. As technology continues to evolve at break-neck speed, it has become increasingly critical for agents to stay ahead of these advances. TBI TECH-tools is the perfect, Web-based solution.
According to Geoffrey Shepstone, President of TBI, “We have a staff of over 30 [...]

Want a more positive workplace where you and your co-workers feel happy and motivated? Want to make customers happier so that their loyalty - and your profits - grow? Want to work more efficiently and effectively and improve your health? Authentic Happiness Coach and Customer Loyalty expert JoAnna Brandi shares tips for transforming these wants [...]

An environment is anything that surrounds you. It is not only your living quarters, your office or your car; but can include your belief system, relationships, networks, your body, natural gifting, values, energy, and feelings.
Have you ever had a friend who was the most amazing person and who loved you completely? Who encouraged you constantly [...]

My mother used to sing songs all the time and they used to annoy me, but now I use the words from those songs and treat them as wisdom. Sometimes we don’t hear messages until much later; sometimes we hear them when it’s too late.

People we meet and have to see on a regular basis can have a negative affect on your life and self-confidence, but only if you let them. I am a person who would get dragged down by any negative comment made from a friend or by my boss for example. This article is about how [...]