Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

" Stephanie you are such a geek." That is what I heard from her as we were talking on the phone.  OK!  I'll own that.  I like to share various tools that help to make you more productive. I laughed, and that statement led us to an interesting conversation about technology and how much or how little different people use of it in their business life.  Even if you are not the most technical person on your block, you probably have some form of technology in your l

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Eco-Office Gals

MAY 13, 2011

Although EOG has been offering green hosting for years, it’s always been on the back burner – an after thought. Not anymore! Welcome to the brand new EOG Green Hosting site. With Eco-Office Gals Green Hosting you get: 130% Wind Powered Servers! We’re not just neutralizing our environmental impact, we’re reversing it! 99.9% Uptime – We PROMISE!

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On The Job

MAY 10, 2011

I've written before about phone interviews , and my friend Scot Herrick over at Cube Rules recently addressed the issue in a helpful post. I think anyone can do well in a phone interview if they're prepared, but what happens when you get an ambush call? I know some recruiters like to do this -- call you during the dinner hour when the kids are screaming and the meatloaf in burning and the dog has just eaten a sofa cushion.

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Virtual Moxie

MAY 10, 2011

Over the weekend, I saw the Disney movie African Cats. If you haven’t seen it, do. It’s beautiful and amazing, and you’ll feel so very good by the time you leave the theatre. In the middle of it, I did something I never do in a movie—I whipped out my Blackberry and took some notes to help me write this post to share with you. Horrible movie behavior, I know, and I'm glad I did it (fwiw, I wouldn't have done it, except there were only six of us in the theatre, and I knew I wouldn't bother a soul)

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 9, 2011

Sometimes productivity has to do with systems and processes.  I've written about that a lot recently, but often it is about effective communication too.  If you don't have good ways to communicate in your team or with your clients, the systems and processes fall flat.  Today I'll talk about some critical steps you can take to make sure that your communication and that of your team works.

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Productivity Bits

MAY 12, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. Around December last year (2010) Google launched a pilot program in which they gave away thousands of notebook units they called “Cr-48″ – a prototype of the Chrome OS-based notebook. That prototype has now been fully developed and released as Chromebook which according to Google is: “A mobile device designed specifically for people who live on th

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Ever since the launch of the Apple iPad sales in other computers have taken a hit, especially notebook computers. Given the ease of use, weight and dimensions, this is hardly surprising. When the iPad was announced we at WinWeb made the decision to make our new apps work natively in the Apple iPad browser.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 11, 2011

Do you have good ways to communicate with your team? If you don't the systems and processes you are trying to implement or maintain can fall flat.  One critical question to ask yourself is if the current mode of communication is working in your organization.  Are people up to date?  Do they know what is going on?  Are they performing their tasks as you would like?

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Small Business Labs

MAY 11, 2011

Mobile marketing has become a key to local business success.  According to Network Solutions: "One in three searches on mobile is local.  After searching for a business:  61% call the business, 59% visit the business; 88% take action the same day." To learn more about mobile marketing, attend the Network Solutions free online Livestream on mobile marketing on May 17th, from 1:30 to 2:30pm eastern, 10:30 to 11:30 pacific.  The session will cover.

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Eat Your Career

MAY 12, 2011

In 1967, two psychiatrists named Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe performed a rigorous study to better understand the correlation between stress and illness. Ultimately, they created the Homes and Rahe Stress Scale, a comprehensive list that ranks the 43 most stressful life events. ( You can see the list here. ). While much of the scale is predictable (death of a spouse ranks at the top of the list), there are several surprising things that stand out.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 9, 2011

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. It is essential that you do your research before approaching a big company. If you don’t have the answers to their questions, you will fail. 2.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 9, 2011

Encouragement goes straight to the heart. In fact, the word itself comes from a combination of the prefix “en” which means “to put into” and the Latin word “cor” which means heart. Knowing what a big difference encouragement makes in your own life, what can you do to help others “to take heart” when things get tough or you want to acknowledge a job well-done?

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Job Advice Blog

MAY 12, 2011

Could this be? After all it worked in past and others who helped you with it made significant improvements. Despite that, vis a vis other outstanding resumes it pales and is ineffective. In order for your resume to propel you to the point that somebody considers you as a potential candidate is has to have [.].

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Andrea Kalli

MAY 9, 2011

As online publishers grow more search savvy, the amount of effort required for effective link building is soaring upwards. Many websites have grown into high-earning online assets, with even the simplest ones earning top rankings in Google SERPs, steady inflows of traffic, and a bevy of advertising income. At the heart of this success is high quality link building.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 9, 2011

The New York Times has an article  about Pitzer College, a small liberal arts school in Southern California, offering the first major in secular studies.  The reason?  Secularism is growing in the U.S. and abroad.  According to Trinity University's Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture the percentage of American adults who say they have no religion has doubled over the past 20 years, to 15 percent.  In many European

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MAY 12, 2011

by Donna Toothaker. The most successful businesses on the planet got that way not because they put out fantastic products, (i.e. McDonald’s) but because they came up with a streamlined, reproducible, consistent system for delivering those products to market. In doing so, they have given the customers what they want (quick service and a consistent product), while boosting their profits exponentially as their businesses multiply.

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Brilliantly Better

MAY 12, 2011

Tweet It’s almost noon and I’m in my car, driving Victor, my son, to his school. We spent some time at my place, watching movies and working on his latest project, rockpedia.co. Victor is almost 14. He’s into rock music (obviosuly) and all the stuff of a typical teenager. “When did you learn to drive so well?” he asks, out of the blue. The question is brutally taking me by surprise.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 11, 2011

I finally figured out my assistant meant follow up.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 13, 2011

Green America is a non-profit focused on creating an environmentally sustainable society.  They are conducting a national survey of small business owners to help them develop programs and incentives to help small businesses save money grow while increasing their sustainability.  This survey is part of a broader, Green America project project to identify and quantify “green” opportunities for small business.  We at Small Business Labs are excited about this project and are looki

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Men With Pens

MAY 12, 2011

I’m going to tell you how not to write like an idiot in pubic. If you read that first sentence twice, you’ve witnessed caught-with-your-pants down copyediting. Naturally, I meant public – but the absence of that all-important l probably had you second-guessing my ability to give you sage advice about copyediting. And that’s even before you start reading the full article.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 10, 2011

Group buying or collective buying is fast gaining popularity among business owners. The idea originally hailed from China where it is known as Tuangou. Online group buying was first introduced through an e-commerce start-up, Mercata, ten years ago and they had dubbed this business plan as “We Commerce&#. For those business owners who are still trying to grasp the concept of this phenomenon, let me break it down for you.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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BioTeams

MAY 11, 2011

I have been thinking for a long time about developing an online game for High-Performing Teams which was complex enough to be useful but simple enough to be usable! I am pleased to introduce the A4 Team Game ( Alignment, Attitudes, Attention and Autonomy ) which can be configured for different team challenges and runs on the desktop, the web or even embedded in other applications.

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Service Untitled

MAY 9, 2011

If you never measure how well your business products or your services affect your customers, chances are you may have lost customers, your reputation may have suffered, or negative word of mouth might have dried up your referral lists. No matter how sophisticated a business owner thinks he might be, there is always the need to focus on “key issues&# related to overall customer satisfaction and thus – customer loyalty.

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Productivityist

MAY 12, 2011

I’m going to be talking about “funny blogging” today at Northern Voice. Whether those attending my session laugh with me or at me, at least there will be laughter. If you’re attending this legendary conference, look for me. I’m the guy with the red 43folders shirt. If not, follow the goings-on on the Twitter. The hashtag is #nv11 so you can be productive while doing so.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 13, 2011

It just so happens that the same day I published my latest article on group buying , Small Business Trends Radio conducted a podcast interview on the very same exact topic. So I thought if that topic interested my readers, they may just want to jump over and listen to Anita’s most recent podcast. Robert Ball, CEO of Office Arrow, joins Anita Campbell and Brent Leary to discuss the ins and outs of the group buying phenomenon.

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Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Service Untitled

MAY 12, 2011

Positive customer experience doesn’t just happen after one transaction, sale, or service, but an initial bad customer experience will send a customer straight to your competition; never to look back at the wake. Therefore I contend that the total positive customer experience I want to appreciate is an organization’s total structure of all departments working together like a finely tuned machine.

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Service Untitled

MAY 11, 2011

Great products and great service add up to a successful business, and keeping your customers coming back and spending their money in your organization continues to be more competitive. Innovative ways to keep your business in the forefront and fresh ideas to remind customers how much they are appreciated can turn ordinary into extraordinary or the mundane into marvelous.

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Service Untitled

MAY 10, 2011

Great products and great service add up to a successful business, and keeping your customers coming back and spending their money in your organization continues to be more competitive. Innovative ways to keep your business in the forefront and fresh ideas to remind customers how much they are appreciated can turn ordinary into extraordinary or the mundane into marvelous.

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