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Business strategist Dion Hinchcliffe presents an interesting (if rather buzzword-heavy) rundown of how the shift to the Web is changing IT and business. In particular, he cites five trends in that direction for 2009: [Read more…]
Originally posted on September 7, 2009 @ 6:39 am
I’m one of those irritating Mac users that has barely any Microsoft software installed. When I want to read a Word document to get the gist (rather than the formatting) I’ll use TextEdit or Pages. Spreadsheets? Boring anyway. PowerPoint goes to Keynote.
So I’m not particularly excited to hear that Microsoft will be shipping Outlook instead of Entourage in its next business version of Office for Mac.
Microsoft has promised that Office will be better integrated with the OS because it’ll be built on Cocoa, with a new database and information rights management system.
True to Microsoft form, Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition will launch on September 15 2009, but do I care? [Read more…]
Originally posted on August 13, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
Amanda Palmer, from the Dresden Dolls and solo artist in conflict with her label, earned $19,000 in 10 hours via Twitter (Warning: Offensive language). Amanda Palmer is a self-promoter and has managed to create a genuine brand as a solo artist. She has 34.000 followers on Twitter and is one of the more active music artists on the network. Around a month ago she spend several hours on Twitter, both with friends and fans, and earned as a result more than $19.000 in less than a day. How did she manage this? [Read more…]
Originally posted on June 26, 2009 @ 4:09 am
Eros Partners has launched TravelingEncounters.com, the first dating website focused on busines travelers.
TravelingEncounters.com allows business travelers to create a single profile in their home city and then calendar up to four planned trips at a time. Each time a trip is planned, a new view of the member’s profile is created in the destination city. Locals, as well as other travelers to that city, are able to view and communicate with each other to create social contacts.
The Eros Partners, LLC series of sites cater to the progressive-thinking adult, but respect individual privacy with intimate topics. After all, just because you are progressive-thinking doesn’t mean you want to broadcast intimate details about yourself to the world. To accomplish this goal of balancing access to public and private information, Eros Partners’ members have public and private profiles.
The public profile contains basic information that focuses on details that most people would share with co-workers and casual acquaintances.
A member’s private profile focuses on intimate topics such as health, grooming and their views on adult subjects. To share the private profile, a member can use the service’s “admire” feature, and if the admired member accepts, private profile information is shared one-on-one between the two individuals.
To make searches productive, people joining the service are in full control over who is able to view their profile. Beyond gender choice, members can define key relationship elements such as age, race, height and distance. Once these preferences are set, only those individuals who fit within those preferences are able to view the person’s public profile.
Originally posted on November 3, 2008 @ 5:43 pm
For all businesses, customer service is one of the most important aspects of maintaining happy customers or clients as well as having a positive public image. However, despite its importance, many businesses struggle with offering adequate customer service over the phone, online, or in person.
If this is something that your business could do better at, here are three ways that you can improve your customer service department for your business.
Originally posted on March 20, 2020 @ 8:41 am