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Building and Marketing a Lean Startup

We are seeing more startups launched in the past 4 years than ever before in the history of the Internet. Families and friends can quickly share information on many different networks with ease! Could This Portable Bento Box Steamer Make Healthy Eating Easier? Our national weight problem has been in the news a lot lately.

Could This Portable Bento Box Steamer Make Healthy Eating Easier?

Mayor Bloomberg is banning big-gulp soda, for example, with high-fat snack foods not far behind. But as the New York Times recently reported, it’s really tough to “force” people to change their ways. What tends to stick, conventional wisdom goes, is developing healthier everyday habits. “Hectic lifestyles often have people turning to processed foods high in fat, sodium, and sugars,” explains Vim & Vigor, the young New York design office behind Bento, a portable steamer-and-lunch-box-in-one. “Bento helps people eat healthier by providing an alternative to the convenience of fast food.”

How Colorblind are You? Virtual Opthalmoscope app is great free learning tool. Learning how to use a fundoscope well is one of the more challenging aspects of life as a junior doctor.

Virtual Opthalmoscope app is great free learning tool

In order to help develop this essential skill, Alcon, a Novartis company have developed the Virtual Opthalmoscope. This free universal app features a library of more than 50 clinical cases with high-quality, zoomable images and commentary from a leading consultant ophthalmologist. The Super Duper Guide to Google Analytics Pivot Tables. Pivot tables are hidden gems in Google Analytics reports. They are extremely powerful and are commonly used in spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel. Through pivot tables you can quickly summarize data in desired format and that you can’t determine otherwise. Even being so powerful, they are not the default table views in Google Analytics reports which is a shame. Getting Started with Pivot Tables in Google Analytics. Five Components of Pivot Table Pivot Table Case Study Using Pivot Tables with Advanced Segments Using Pivot Tables with Filters.

7 great Google spreadsheet gadgets - Page 1 - Integrating IT. One of the best-kept secrets of Google Docs, these gadgets add powerful features to your spreadsheets SAN FRANCISCO– Inside Google Docs’ spreadsheet component, you’ll find gadgets that endow the app with powers that even Excel users will envy.

7 great Google spreadsheet gadgets - Page 1 - Integrating IT

Included are tools for creating animated pie charts, producing QR codes, generating organizational charts, and more. You can also plot data in color by country on a map, and you can publish a map with your office location marked on it. Your Blog Post Promotion Checklist - An Infographic from @DivvyHQ. One of our mantras at Divvy is to help people work smarter, not harder.

Your Blog Post Promotion Checklist - An Infographic from @DivvyHQ

And in the world of content marketing, content repurposing is a great way to take a piece of evergreen content that you slaved over in the past, dust it off, repackage it in the popular content format of the day, publish it and then watch as your audiences embrace it as if it were a new piece. Such is the case with a helpful little blog post that I wrote back in March of 2011. My First Guest Blog Post Ever In early 2011, I was asked to guest blog for the Content Marketing Institute, which actually came from a consistent blog commenting strategy that I have executed for years. Focus On Software Employees Will Actually Use. The problem today is that “every big company has a collaborative ecosystem of some form already.”

Focus On Software Employees Will Actually Use

Yet, “these systems just haven’t kept up with the explosion of consumer-oriented collaboration technologies.” Vimeo. Agile: let's not turn it into just another buzzword. 18 Free Mind Mapping Tools for Teachers and Students. 1- SpiderScribe This is a great mind mapping tool that allows users to easily visualize their ideas by connecting various pieces of information together and create free style maps.

18 Free Mind Mapping Tools for Teachers and Students

It also combines elements like text, images, files, calendar events and geographic locations. 9th. Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information. Great Brands Are About Fusing Product And Service. How Do You Do It? For the past 40 years, futurists, economists, and media mavens have debated which business strategies are best suited for the networked, postindustrial era.

Great Brands Are About Fusing Product And Service. How Do You Do It?

In his 1971 book, Future Shock, the futurist Alvin Toffler talked about the upcoming “experiential industry,” in which people would be willing to allocate high percentages of their salaries to live amazing experiences. Toffler’s prediction has proven prophetic. We are happy to visit Disneyland or pay real money for virtual goods because they amuse and delight us. Brands are symbols of experiences, and we have learned not to question brand premiums. Spending $200 for an Armani shirt makes perfect sense because the luxury experience and self-expression create an intangible value beyond the mere cloth. Olympics data: all our statistics, data journalism and visualisations in one place.

Olympic data.

Olympics data: all our statistics, data journalism and visualisations in one place

Graphic: Paul Scruton As soon as the first Olympic events begin in a month's time, we will be assaulted by data of every kind - results, medal tables, venue details; and that's without the statistics-based stories we will see on transport chaos, terror threats, logistical challenges and tourism. It's a feast of numbers, but where can you get the key facts? Olympic medals interactive guide. Click image to explore it We wanted to provide one place to explore and discuss the key facts around the big issues. 99 free web resources and projects. Response to “Bubble Trees: The Visualization of Hierarchical Structure”

8 Easy Ways to Change SharePoint for Work. You may also be interested in: SharePoint Apps by Cybozu Editor's note: Contributor Chirag Patel is a Senior SharePoint Consultant for PointBeyond. Follow him @techChirag Frequently, I receive requests along the lines of What can SharePoint do and how can it work for me? With endless possibilities and boundless optimism, SharePoint obviously has a great deal more to offer and the manner in which it is implemented and governed. You will also find a mountain of articles and how to guides on the internet but my responses almost always touch on the following areas. In this post I will share 8 easy ways that by themselves may not dramatically improve productivity, but combined can result in significant performance gains and hopefully help you leverage SharePoint functionality. London Olympics transport hotspots visualised.

Poor Visualizations Cause More Harm Than You Think. How to say measles in different languages translation. Buy Wall Maps from Maps International Online Map Shop. Tel: 01993 880 939 Worldwide delivery available.

Buy Wall Maps from Maps International Online Map Shop

Smarterer. Why Bosses No Longer Care If You're Late for Work [STUDY] Bosses in the U.S. and parts of Europe are less strict about employees showing up at the office on time, trusting that they are working long before they actually get to the office thanks to the growth of smartphones, the cloud and other ways to access work remotely, a new study suggests. According to survey by data-protection company Mozy, 73% of bosses have a relaxed attitude to time keeping because staffers are working flexible hours beyond 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

In fact, one in five employees has already checked their work email by 7:00 a.m. and the average employee has already spent up to 46 minutes working before they arrive at the office. The study — which was conducted among 1,000 American, British, German, French and Irish employees and employers — found that, even though bosses understand about late arrivals, about half of employees believe they will mind if they are late.

Nice Sharing - Combine Multiple URLs into single URL. The Tweeted Times - personal newspaper generated from your Twitter account. Say Goodbye to the Useless Idea. Sometimes you just know if a good idea is worth pursuing. It’s that instinctive gut feeling telling you, “yes this idea is worth pursuing”. Now if only everything in life was so straightforward and simple. So what about those times where the answer is a little less black and white? How do you know if an idea is worth pursuing? Thinking like a genius: overview. Thinking and recall series Problem solving: creative solutions.

The Graphical Web Conference 2012. 22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros. Do you blog? 2012 Local Health Profiles now available - NeLM. The 2012 Local Health Profiles, which draw together information to present a picture of health in each local area, have now been released.

The Profiles show that there are clear variations in health, both across the country and within individual local authorities. 17+ Resources for Churches Using WordPress. Interactive Chart Selector. Public sector technology and IT news and features. Have You Tried Talking To Your Customers? Online Program Lets Docs 'Prescribe' mHealth Apps - Healthcare - Mobile & Wireless. Happtique mRx program lets physicians send apps directly to patients' smartphones and tablets, or refer them to Apple store. (click image for larger view) Slideshow: 12 Innovative Mobile Healthcare Apps. All content is marketing.

Everything you write should be crafted with the intention of selling, educating, or increasing customer loyalty. The phrase “Content Marketing” describes marketing by attracting potential customers with content that interests them. Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student's or Professor's Productivity. Being productive and getting things done both rely on planning and being organized. 65 Procrastination Quotes That Will Shift You Into Action-Mode. How to use Evernote to enhance your productivity and improve your understanding of medicine. Olympic Games. Home - SharePoint User Toolkit. 5 Smart Tips to Improve Your Writing. Spread fingers like a fork to swim faster, scientists find. MiCare Home. World's hardest sudoku: the answer. Full Reset for Internet Explorer 9 – Really. HK: Data Download.

Flash, SVG and a stunning timeline. CHROME USERS: what are your essential extensions? What Bugs Me About Creative Commons… Open mHealth – powerful tools to accelerate mobile health innovation. Census Explorer: Interactively Analyze the 2011 Australian Census Data. Infographic: A Cheat Sheet For Grilling Out. WMO to launch global climate services system. Build Better Habits with a Mind Map. » How to Learn A Language in 90 Days. Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Image Processing & Data Analysis.

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