When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized
The problem is that better overall productivity in an organization may not translate into increased productivity for an individual worker. Though one person may now be producing the previous results of three, she’s not being paid three times as much. That’s the whole point of companies using technology and other improvements: fewer people are now needed for the same results. But the workers who remain also tend to have much more responsibility. Cranking out widgets is one thing; deciding which widgets need cranking first, and in what quantity, is quite another — especially if you are now charged with continually improving the system, or determining whether you should even be cranking out those widgets at all. It can be a recipe for frustration, as employees feel overwhelmed by their companies’ very progress. As Dr. How do you find the space needed to do that? WE are not born doing this. • Capture everything that has your attention, in your work and your personal life, in writing.
Talkwheel wants to reinvent the way we communicate online — Online Collaboration
We have email, we have message boards, we have IM, but if they aren’t integrated with one another, our collaborative communications often fall short. Andy McLoughlin, cofounder of Huddle, recently discussed the limitations of email as a collaboration tool. Virtual teams are finding email streams hard to track and harder to scale. IM conversations, while great in the moment, often disappear into the ether, not archived for future reference. And message boards are barely a step up from the Usenet Newsgroups of the early Internet. So where do we go from here? Rethink our collaborative communications I have to be honest; it has taken me a long time to “get” Talkwheel, and even though now I “get it,” it still doesn’t appeal to me. Talkwheel’s premise is that if you install and use the platform with your team, all of the conversations you have — both in real-time and asynchronously — will be captured and organized in a way that lets you visualize them. Harness disparate conversations
3 fascinating (and pretty) portraits of personal life through data — Cloud Computing News
Choosing a Screencasting Tool / Software Demo Creation Tool - indoition software user assistance
When evaluating tools for screencasting, it’s important to understand that there are two general groups of tools: ▪The group of frame-based tools creates animations based on a few static images (“frames” or “slides”). A new frame or slide is only created when something new actually took place in the software (when a new window has opened, for example). The mouse cursor isn’t visible in the frames. ▪The group of full-motion-based tools records a “genuine” movie. Both groups have specific advantages and disadvantages. The big advantage of frame-based recordings, however, is that significantly fewer individual images are created. The trend goes toward combining the best of the two worlds: In the standard case, the recordings are frame-based, but when there’s a drag & drop action (or upon manual request), a full-motion-based recording begins.
How I Make My Living as an Online Writer (And How You Could Too)
(Photo by Antonina, a fantastic London contemporary portrait photographer) The end of this month will mark three years since I left my day job. Since then, I’ve been supporting myself through writing. It’s my dream career – and I love being able to set my own hours, work from home, and have a huge amount of flexibility and freedom. I haven’t written much here on Aliventures about how exactly I actually make money. But there really isn’t. And … if you want to … there’s no reason why you can’t do exactly the same as me. In short, I have a bunch of different revenue streams that bring in cash every month. I’ll start with the ones that were easiest to get going with, and work up to the methods that take a bit more time… #1: Paid Writing for Blogs (2008 onwards) This is how I started out, in early 2008. My family and friends find it bizarre that I can get paid to write for blogs. Writing for blogs typically means: How much does paid blogging make? Learn more: #2: Website Advertising (2008 onwards)
How to Protect Your Intellectual Property
Details Category: Business Security Created on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:50 Written by Tim Burton Hits: 434 It is crucial for all businesses to protect their intellectual property. Patents Inventions are crucial to the success of many businesses. If your business is one in which inventions are created on a continuing basis, it is very important that you have a clear understanding about who owns the inventions. Copyrights A copyright provides protection for original works of authorship, fixed in a tangible medium of expression including literary, musical, and dramatic works, as well as photographs, audio and visual recordings, software, and other intellectual works. nt of your copyright. Trademarks A trademark protects the name of your product by preventing other business from selling a product under the same name. Different types of intellectual properties and ways to protect them: inventions, manufacturing process and new and invented technical features of your products. About Author
How to invite others to join a LinkedIn group « Linked4Ministry Blog
Are you a member of a LinkedIn group that you would like to invite others to join? You might be able to do it easily if the group manager allows member invitations. Here are the steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. That doesn’t work if the group manager doesn’t allow members to invite others to join. The third solution (and the easiest for you) is tell them the group name and have them go to your profile, scroll through your groups, and click on the “+ Join” button to request membership. The last choice is to send their email address to the group manager and ask them to invite them. Why invite others to join groups? If you are not in the “Linked4Ministry” LinkedIn group and would like to be, go to and click on the “Join Group” button As always, thank you for reading Linked4Ministry. Blessings, Bill Bender Linked4Ministry & Anothen Life Ministries Like this: Like Loading...
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L'actualité 15/10/2013 - Merci aux contributeurs d'EUROSFAIRE et rendez-vous sur le nouveau site H2020, par binetCo-ordinator NCP General. HORIZON 2020. La coordination des PCN du Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche remercie l'ensemble des contributeurs & fidèles du site EUROSFAIRE et leur donne rendez-vous sur Horizon2020.gouv.fr Lire 10/10/2013 - Matinée d'information Infrastructures de recherche le 7 novembre 2013, par binetInfrastructures NCP. HORIZON 2020. 03/10/2013 - Atelier “de la recherche au marché” pour les projets transports, par transportTransport NCP. 27/09/2013 - L'ERC précise les dates de soumission des prochains appels ERC en 2014, par ercIdeas (ERC) NCP. 27/09/2013 - Publication de la Foire Aux Questions dédiée à l'appel Proof of Concept 2013, par ercIdeas (ERC) NCP.
