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- Virtual Meetings Will Erase Face to Face – BusinessWeek
Forget hauling your briefcase on a no-frills airline flight to attend a stuffy convention. Online events are the best, most cost-effective places to exchange information and meet and greet. Pro or con?
- 5 reasons it’s time for a 4‑day work week
Research suggests it won’t just make us happier – it will actually make us more productive
- Why I’ve switched to self-publishing: Diana Kimpton
It wasn’t an easy decision to make. I knew I already had two publishers eager to see my first novel for older readers. I knew that if I went with one of them, I’d be likely to get a good advance and good sales.
But I also knew that the world of publishing was changing fast. Self publishing was now a viable option – I’d already tried it with two backlist titles so I knew what was involved. And I also knew that There Must Be Horses was the best book I had ever written. Did I want to hand it over to someone else or did I want to stay in control? - 10 of the Best Free WordPress Plugins for Testimonials
If you’re looking for an easy way to share your customers’ feedback with your website’s visitors, then you have to check out these free WordPress testimonial plugins. These free WordPress plugins allow you to display testimonials on your website or blog, and they come with great features like video, Gravatar, and image support, social media integration, slide and fade effects, easy colour customisation, spam protection, and more.
- 8 Tips for Running a Virtual Meeting Like a Rockstar
Many companies, like us, now have dispersed team members. We love the freedom to hire amazing people regardless of where they live. As a manager, however, how do you run meetings like a rockstar when your entire team is not around the same phys…
- Inside Clever HD, A Great Evernote Client For The iPad
Use Evernote on iOS? Wish it had proper saved searches? Or note links? Wish it was a little faster to browse and find what you’re looking for? Then you might want to take a look at the rather excellent Clever HD for iPad, a full-featured Evernote client which could even replace the official app on your iDevice.
- Inside Clever HD, A Great Evernote Client For The iPad
Use Evernote on iOS? Wish it had proper saved searches? Or note links? Wish it was a little faster to browse and find what you’re looking for? Then you might want to take a look at the rather excellent Clever HD for iPad, a full-featured Evernote client which could even replace the official app on your iDevice.
- 85 Amazing HTML5 Examples
We hand-pick some great HTML5 examples, and talk to the designers behind them to find out how they went about it.
- Edit Image Text With Chrome’s Project Naptha: What It Is & How To Use It
Text is normally trapped inside images. With the Project Naptha Chrome extension, you can select, copy, and edit that text with just a few clicks. It’s a quick way to copy important text from images or make your own meme. The extension uses advanced computer imaging technology — but, as a user, it feels a bit like magic.
- The Value Of A Crap Job
I’m not the only one, either: I’ve talked to plenty of entrepreneurs who reached their breaking point in some awful job before they struck out on their own; for some of us, an awful job is bit like a mother bird pushing us out of the nest.
- A Notice of Author Obviation.
Dear Content Creator,
We are happy to announce that our recent efforts in fiction generation have been successful, and we are now able to feed the entirety of any individual writer’s output into our computer and procedurally generate new works using a combination of Markov chains and random syntax sampling. A regular expression-based pattern matching system then determines which sentences are most similar in style to ones you would have personally constructed, and arranges them in terms of plot development (or what passes for plot in your novels).
In essence, we have rendered you obsolete.
- 25 things freelancers can do when everyone else is on vacation
Here are some practical, productive things freelancers can do to maximize the slow times that happen around July 4 and other holidays:
- 54,805 reasons not to be Amazon’s free app of the day
As a free app in Amazon’s Appstore, Shifty Jelly’s Pocket Caster Android app, benefitted hugely from the exposure. Sales jumped from 20 per day to 101,491 sales on the day Amazon offered it at no charge. But there’s one problem: The company didn’t make a dime.
- Freelancers’ Questions: Is an estimate the same as a quote?
Freelancer’s Question: I normally give a price estimate to clients interested in the supply of my freelance services, but a new customer has insisted that I send them a quote. Is there much difference between an estimate and a quote? I really would like to stick with estimates, not least because I’m unsure how long the project will take me to complete.
- Unprecedented Employee Support to Ousted Market Basket CEO Yeilds Lessons for All Businesses
The employees and customers of one supermarket chain have shut down a grocery empire, thwarting corporate greed, and demanding the reinstatement of an ousted CEO. Not one labor union has been involved. From top level managers, with the exception of two replacement CEOs, down to teenage baggers the entire labor force (including truck drivers, warehouse workers, and more) is united, and they’ve encouraged their customers to boycott the stores. Customers have voted with their feet as well, maintaining that boycott for nearly one week, at a store much less expensive than competitors, but bringing back receipts to hang on the windows, showing exactly where their hard earned dollars are going.
- Is your website colorblind friendly?
For people suffering from a color deficiency – which is roughly 8 percent of all men and 0.5 percent of women, according to color-blindness.com – your colorful website could be an absolute chore to navigate. Caused by a non-functioning cone in the eye, color deficiencies make it difficult to distinguish between particular colors. While there are many types of color deficiencies, the most common is red-green color-blindness, in which red and green appear as the same color. For the benefit of our colorblind Web surfers, it’s a good idea to test your site to ensure usability remains intact when the colors are not viewed as originally intended.
- A Visual Guide to What Your Body Language Says About You in Business
By a man’s fingernails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the calluses of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuffs, by his movements – by each of these things a man’s calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable / Sherlock Holmes, 1892.
- Why I’m leaving Amazon’s KDP Select program: Todd Keisling
It means that if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you will not be able to borrow those books for free. It also means that if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you will not be able to download my books for free.
- Why I’m leaving Amazon’s KDP Select program: Todd Keisling
It means that if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you will not be able to borrow those books for free. It also means that if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you will not be able to download my books for free.