Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Guest Author. Visit the original article at [link]. T he best things in life have been planned and prepared; travelling around the world is definitely no exception. A decent rucksack to a long haul multi trip traveller is like a Swiss-army knife to a jungle bound resourceful soldier.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

by Originally posted 2011-06-20 17:24:42. If you’re married, you may decide one partner is responsible for paying the bills, so they go in that person’s in box (don’t have an inbox? Don’t read? If you don’t know where your “to reads” are, you can’t read them.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

» September 22, 2010 Ultralight Startups Ultralight startups:  little capital, just computer is an interesting article by the SF Chronicle's Tom Abate. It is about a UC Berkeley student who started a custom T-Shirt printing company in high school and continues to run it at college. 

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Local Online Advertising to Increase 18% in 2011 | Main | 20 TED Talks for Small Business » August 26, 2010 Despite Recession, Private Tutoring Booms One of the trends I find really interesting is the continued growth of small personal services companies. . 

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Coworking Facilities | Main | Lessons from Turning Academic Research into a Business » September 17, 2010 3D Printing Comes Of Age The New York Times article 3-D Printing Spurs Is Spurring a Manufacturing Revolution covers the growing impact of this technology.    The NY Times article covers a number of examples. .  As

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MAY 26, 2010

has an interesting package of articles on the best industries for starting a business.    According to article, 90% of the facilities are owned by small businesses.    A growing industry is the best bet, and as the article points out, industry experience is clearly a plus. 

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Self-Employment Data » September 30, 2010 Wealthy Planning on Working in Retirement We've written so often about baby boomers and others working past traditional retirement age that I almost didn't bother with this post.    The article covers a study of wealthy individuals (more than $1.5

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JUNE 23, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Street Food Gets Real | Main | Please Take "The Organizational Use of Video Storytelling" Survey » June 23, 2010 More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food Interesting article in the Washington Post on mobile slaughterhouses. 

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JULY 1, 2010

Manufacturing » July 01, 2010 Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement The US News article The Number One Obstacle to Retirement points out that non-mortgage debt is a significant problem for many Americans.    According to the article, debt payments are interfering with retirement savings for 63% of Americans.

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JULY 22, 2010

BTW if you don't follow Knowledge at Wharton, you should.  I actually didn't know there was too much capital chasing good deals. My wife told me about an article on Yahoo (Buzz I think) today or yesterday about the thousands of inventors out there that can't get funding. Short and sweet.

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MAY 25, 2010

on Choosing the Right Industry » May 25, 2010 Social Networks, Cultural Evolution and Idea Sex Humans:  Why They Triumphed  is a fascinating article from the Wall Street Journal that examines the roles social networks and collaboration plays in cultural evolution. 

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MAY 20, 2010

Interesting article from Tom Foremski at Silicon Valley Watcher titled Corporate Social Media Is Not Social -- It's Sales Media.   Key quote from the article: "When most people use Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace, they use it for its social qualities. .  Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 6, 2010

Manufacturing The New York Times article Is Manufacturing Coming Back to the U.S.? The article also points out that in addition to rising costs, there are also cash flow disadvantages associated with the use of Chinese manufacturers.    These are described in the NY Times article.  most won't. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 4, 2010

" This article nicely illustrates the enabling role data and analytics are playing in the broader "new localism" trend.  Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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JUNE 18, 2010

" Tim has written a follow-up article on his un-retirement - How to Rewrite Your Job Instead of Retiring - over at Small Business Trends.  " I think all boomers should read Tim's article as part of their retirement planning.  Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. And speaking, and teaching."

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JULY 15, 2010

Main | Dymos CardScan iPhone App Illustrates Several Key Trends » July 15, 2010 Privacy and Transparency in the Internet Age Don Tapscott's Huffington Post article Why Transparency and Privacy Should Go Hand in Hand  is a must read.  Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Well, the above video was made to promote one of my ebooks, namely Brilliantly Better , a collection of some of my most visited articles on this blog. In the process, I also wrote an article on self-publishing , which turned out to be one of the most popular on the topic. Tweet I usually do this kind of lists at the end of each year.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

I have always written articles, from my time in grade school, right on through College. Even though the articles were on specific topics, I could take one or up to three sentences from one article and morph it into another article on a different topic. I acquired many articles to have at my disposal doing this.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

She started in real estate in 2011 with no SOI, no experience and $6 to her name. Bethke started out as an individual realtor in 2011. So, we asked you, our readers, to nominate the people who have made long-lasting, positive change in your life. And with that, we introduce to you, the SUCCESS 125. Jean Accius. Senior Vice President.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « 3D Printing Comes Of Age | Main | Ultralight Startups » September 21, 2010 Lessons from Turning Academic Research into a Business I'm a bit behind on my reading and just came across The New York Time's article The Idea Incubator Goes to Campus. 

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « 3D Printing Comes Of Age | Main | Ultralight Startups » September 21, 2010 Lessons from Turning Academic Research into a Business I'm a bit behind on my reading and just came across The New York Time's article The Idea Incubator Goes to Campus. 

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

With the way are government is going we will be lucky if we don't elminate small buisness. Posted by: Small Business | September 13, 2010 at 08:12 PM Thanks for the pointer to the article, nothing surprises me ,the way things are moving , we will lucky if any small business survives this economic recession!!!!

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

  And if you can't make it tomorrow, no worries - the event is virtual so you can watch it later.  You can also insist on writing so good articles in your life for us.and I think you are a free man to do things as your ideals.pursit it.and now pls change our things with my website,link my name to know me.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

According to a New York Times article on China, many economic forecasters have China passing the U.S. I didn't think China would ever pass the US but we are going sideways at best for the forseeable future and they are growing nicely. Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

  From the point of view of this study Gazelles, regardless of age, don't seem to be so important.      In case you haven't already given up, Scott Shane has an interesting article that compares U.S. .  Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. Census data with U.S.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Robert Reich's NY Times article Entrepreneur or Unemployed covers this trend.    Although he doesn't use the term, Reich's article focuses on the growing number of necessity-preneurs.    These are folks who turn to self-employment because they can't find a job. 

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MAY 6, 2010

  Ad Age quotes an investment banker on the value of Newsweek as saying "I can't tell you that it's more than a buck, unfortunately."   The Ad Age article says one of Newsweek's biggest problems is too many subscribers.  Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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Brilliantly Better

AUGUST 29, 2011

I don’t know anything abut this so I asked a very good friend to help me out. During the last 3 years Sega has been on his own quest too, traveling through India and Asia. I’m writing this for the 1.34% of you who didn’t. © Dragos Roua for Dragos Roua - Brilliantly Better , 2011.

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MAY 1, 2011

Tweet When people ask me “how can you do all that stuff that you do, like writing on your blog , writing iPhone apps , traveling and so on? Before getting to the real topic of the article, let me tell you that I did have jobs before. I didn’t know from the beginning that this will be called “digital nomading&#.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 12, 2010

The entrepreneur article is a bit misleading because they recommend the use of blogs as a way of not having website! The entrepreneur article is a bit misleading because they recommend the use of blogs as a way of not having website! I definitely come down in the "social media isn't a substitute for a website" camp.

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JUNE 15, 2010

" I hadn't heard about resurrecting the dead before, but I'm not surprised.  Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Tweet This is my first post for 2011. Having a lot of free time in the last few days, I reread some of my articles on this blog. Instead, all I want from 2011 is to tame twelve monkeys. I don’t intend to tame real monkeys. It’s also the post that marks an entire new approach to my blog. And never will be.

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APRIL 14, 2011

I remember tearing open the letter from Random House expecting a contract of some kind and instead staring at a scrap of paper addresses to ‘Dear Author’ The publisher didn’t even want to spend money on a full sheet of paper on me. Don’t be one of them. Outline your article. Dealing with rejection.

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Brilliantly Better

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Tweet Later edit: after I wrote the article, a few hours ago, more replicas of the initial earthquake have been reported and right now the situation is much worse than I initially depicted it. What you’re going to read relates to my pre-earthquake experience of Christchurch, as many parts of the article were wrote a few days ago.

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 5, 2011

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read the introductory post here. If you don’t know what a “monkey&# is, well, basically, it’s an underdeveloped part of myself, something that I promised I will do but never really got to it. I didn’t finish it, though. Nope, I wasn’t.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 29, 2011

We don’t pay for Google. Before Google there was a place called Altavista (many centuries ago, if you know what I mean ). People used to go on Altavista and search for various things. At some point, Google made that process better. And pretty much everybody who was using Altavista migrated to Google. Let’s look at Apple. Or a village.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Main | Start 2011 off Organized!   Just to make sure you don't get overwhelmed reading a long post on overwhelm, here are a few tips to consider: This post is not meant to be a step-by-step guide.  it won't get any better.   I do not suggest that you adopt all the tips below. .  Share your ideas. 

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