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Strategize With Your Sales Team Using Internet Meetings

The modern business climate is changing all the time and keeping up is essential to the success of all companies and corporations. This is why it's so important to be able to keep your business teams up to speed without having to waste precious time and resources by pulling members...

Tags: Sales Team, InterCall, Business Climate, Internet, Sales Strategy, Web Conferencing, Sales

White papers 2009-01-01

Would you sign off on this audit? What???s a going concern in this business climate?

Would you sign off on this audit? What???s a going concern in this business climate?Auditor's are paid by...the company they are auditing. 'nough said.

Tags: Financial accounting, business climate, sign-off, audit, company-they

Discussion threads 2008-12-17

Connect, Communicate and Collaborate With Confidence: A CEO Guide to Business Transformation Through Unified Communication

A dynamic business climate has resulted in many organisations again embracing technology as an opportunity to differentiate themselves and create business agility. While cost saving has been the primary driver for the adoption of converged communications, the concept of unified communications - the ability to communicate in real-time from any...

Tags: Unified Communications, Dimension Data, Business Climate, Collaboration

White papers 2006-09-01

Additional Resources

East Anglia: anger and aggro

One must live through it in order to fully understand itOnly in this case some will have to face huge collateral damage. Fortunately those who will suffer the most are living in already hard hit areas so they are quite used to a life of pain and suffering and as...

Tags: E-mail, East Anglia

Discussion threads 2009-11-26

Maingear Shift

With its new Shift gaming desktop, Maingear joins the ranks of Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and Velocity Micro in providing its customers a distinctive-looking case you can't get anywhere else. And despite a misstep with the build and a questionable processor choice both of which should be easily remedied, we found...

Tags: Network technology, Most Unique, Maingear, cable, hard drive

Product reviews 2009-11-25

Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Spoken like someone without a clueBut then again, what can be expected from trolls anymore?Originality?Security & AccessGrant the LEAST amount of access for the end user.DENY then ALLOW, why would you open up Port 80 to the world if you only do business in the United States or local area...

Tags: agency, cloud provider, legality, data centre, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Adopting Server Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

In today's competitive business environment, your IT infrastructure must accommodate rapidly changing business needs and unforeseen problems with minimal impact on day-to-day operations. But this level of flexibility, scalability, and high availability can be expensive and difficult to deploy and maintain, especially for small and midsize businesses. No matter what...

Tags: CA XOSoft, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization

White papers 2009-11-17

I'm in a nanny state state of mind

Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...

Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, TFB, agony, smoker, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Could be a trend--million Energy Star homes

Out of work peopleWith more people out of work, I am sure thisis going to go great, since the banks are notlending money and now they need more 'free'money from the Gov.More pipe dreams of a failed government.Ok, off-topic but.... Africa - we want your Money!So, now that I have...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Toyota Motor Corp., job

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Paperless students? Never going to happen

Got an idea...If someone wants to do without paper, toilet-paper,a car/truck, air conditioning, and never passgas. Than more power to them, on the other handstop forcing these lunatic policies on employers,small business and the rest of society.In the meantime, people have to work, to earn moneyto eat and raise their...

Tags: Tablets, Microsoft Office, Notebooks, Taxes, Personal finance, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, tablet

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Is Your Enterprise Architected for Tomorrow's Growth?

Today's business climate makes it imperative that organizations make the necessary plans for tomorrow's growth. Implementing an Enterprise Architecture can be a necessary, but challenging undertaking to prepare for that growth. "EA for Dummies" can help you cut through the chaos and get the business results that EA can...

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Booklet, Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Book chapters 2009-11-01

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

iPhone app review: Mantis Bible Study

boo!if i wanted religion, i would have gone to my nearest parish. cmon zdnet, this is a business tech site, not jesus's facebookWhy is software excluded from'tech' just because it happens to be for religious purposes? Are you saying that software made by, dare I say it, religious people...

Tags: Bible

Discussion threads 2009-10-25