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IBM: Big Fat Global Plans

IBM has been around for nearly a century but they’re nimble, moving with the times. CEO Palmisano has new plans to create a beautiful, globalized, multinational world and since two-thirds of their revenue now comes from outside the US, he just might do it.

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Videos 2008-06-02

William Wong: Optimizing Business Communication

In 2002, William Wong co-founded Language Weaver, a leading developer of enterprise software for language translation. Wong talks about the many business to business translation services Language Weavers offers, and the benefits of breaking the business language barrier.

Tags: enterprise software, B2B, barrier, benefit

Videos 2008-03-08

Samuel Albis: Communicating With Cultural Relevance

Samuel Albis is a Creative Partner and founder of The Yellow Butterfly Project, a creative shop in the ad world that targets the Hispanic market. With over 15 years experience in advertising in the United States and his native Columbia, Albis offers his expert views on what reaches (and...

Tags: advertisement, agency

Videos 2007-12-19

ContentNext Founder Rafat Ali: Turning a Blog into a Business

Wouldn't it be great to do what you love and call it work? Rafat Ali turned an "online resume" of his thoughts into ContentNext, an online media network spanning four websites, three continents and 22 employees. Now he's figuring out how to find good people, manage sales, and shift work...

Tags: online media, blog, sales, Web site, network

Videos 2007-09-04

Unboundary CEO Tod Martin: Branding a Company from Within

While most firms focus on branding themselves to the outside world, for 20 years Atlanta-based Unboundary has helped the likes of Fed Ex, IBM, and Coca-Cola become well understood internally as well as externally, winning awards in the process. Unboundary CEO Tod Martin explains how fostering communication can transform a...

Tags: branding, CEO

Videos 2007-09-02

Additional Resources

Swedish Retailer Ikea to Open Store in Tampa

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Swedish Retailer Ikea to Open Store in TampaC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com With company representatives, local officials and community leaders on-hand, home furnishings retailer Ikea this week officially broke ground for its future store in Tampa, Florida. Ikea said the Tampa...

Articles 2009-06-08

Time to green up the data centres: a new survey shows that while CEOs and CIOs may be championing green information technology, the reality is that many companies are still in the "talking" phase or still have no plans to green up their data centres. This article looks at the key findings and examines what this means for business and the wider community

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WE'VE I HEARD so much about green information technology' IT, initiatives recently you'd be forgiven for thinking that everybody had this under control. You might be surprised to learn that storage vendor ONStor found that 58 per cent of the companies they surveyed were either still...

Articles 2008-12-01

Community outreach through corporate social responsibility: corporate social responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of their stakeholders and society at large. The Young Expedition Project may be one way for companies to achieve this

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CORPORATE social responsibility CSR is a concept that frequently overlaps with similar approaches such as corporate sustainability, corporate sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and corporate citizenship. While CSR does not have a universal definition, many see it as the private sector's way of integrating the economic, social,...

Articles 2008-12-01

Authentic personal branding: most buying decisions are based on trust, confidence, and emotions people have related to a product, service, or person. Branding is more important than marketing and sales. Branding is influencing, by creating a brand identity that associates certain perceptions and feelings with that identity. To be successful in life, you need a personal brand to sell yourself

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A BRAND is the expectations, image, and perceptions it creates in the minds of others, when they see or hear a name, product or logo. Microsoft, Nike, Toyota, Volvo, and Coke tell us how they want us to perceive their products. These brands don't communicate about...

Articles 2008-12-01

Loan policies should be spelt out

Electrode Inc was wrong to dismiss Christopher immediately. They may have moral grounds for termination. The HR department should have been more proactive by counseling Christopher before the situation exploded. The counseling process should include verbal and written warnings and making the borrower repay the loans. Termination is...

Articles 2008-12-01

Next generation unified communications for better collaboration: communications and collaboration will become critical elements of business success as the next generation of mobile communications devices and platforms link the right people, at the right time, through the most appropriate networks

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS THE world moves towards ubiquitous, seamless data connectivity to support a global economy, most people will have high quality access to almost any information, anywhere, anytime, on any device. However, as barriers to access fall away, one of the key challenges organisations will...

Articles 2008-12-01

The MEU .45: the 1911 soldiers on

As most of you who follow the shooting sports know, the military replaced the aging M1911A1 with the then exotic-looking Beretta 92S (subsequently dubbed the M9) in 1985. Equally well known was the angst this caused in the shooting community at large, to say nothing of the military's reaction. ...

Articles 2008-08-01

Saving $$$ .22s for practice

With ammo prices going so suddenly and steeply upward, .22 caliber "understudy" practice guns make more sense than ever. Jan Stevenson, my predecessor as handgun editor for this magazine, once wrote a great article on .22 caliber "understudy guns," or handguns that duplicated their larger caliber versions, but shot low-priced...

Articles 2008-08-01

A bill to overhaul foreign-intelligence gathering passed the House with an overwhelming bipartisan majority—and now enjoys the freshly minted backing of the consistently inconsistent Barack Obama, who once threatened to filibuster the legislation

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A bill to overhaul foreign-intelligence gathering passed the House with an overwhelming bipartisan majority--and now enjoys the freshly minted backing of the consistently inconsistent Barack Obama, who once threatened to filibuster the legislation. For decades the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act empowered the intelligence community to gather...

Articles 2008-07-14

NASA scientist James Hansen's literary output reads like the bumf one might find in the bulletin of an enduring Big Sur commune

NASA scientist James Hansen's literary output reads like the bumf one might find in the bulletin of an enduring Big Sur commune. His present crusade is a call to put on trial--for "crimes against humanity," no less--the chief executives of the world's oil companies. The crime of which they are...

Articles 2008-07-14

In a sign that he is worried about facing criminal charges for failing to pay taxes, Al Sharpton has hired former U.S. attorney Zachary Carter to represent him

In a sign that he is worried about facing criminal charges for failing to pay taxes, Al Sharpton has hired former U.S. attorney Zachary Carter to represent him. Records indicate that Sharpton personally owes almost $1.3 million in federal and city taxes and that one of his business entities, Rev....

Articles 2008-07-14

Appeals court upholds acquittals in tax case

The Svea Court of Appeal today upheld the acquittals of all currentand former Ericsson (NASDAQ: Eric) employees who faced charges ofevasion of tax control, filed by the Swedish National Economic CrimesBureau. Henry Sténson, senior vice president and head of CorporateCommunications, Ericsson, says: "We are pleased that all the accusedhave had...

Articles 2008-07-10

Contoural's Stephen Foskett Is Awarded Microsoft MVP

Contoural, Inc., the leading independentprovider of business and technology consulting services for litigationreadiness, compliance, information and records management, and data storagestrategy, announced today that Stephen Foskett has been awarded a MicrosoftMost Valuable Professional award for File System Storage. Microsoft MVPawards are given to individuals who are outstanding technical communityleaders...

Articles 2008-07-10

REMINDER/7th Esperanto Congress of the Americas to be held in Montreal: The Quebec Esperanto Society Hosts a Convention on Ecological, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

Between July 11 and July 18, 2008, the Quebec University in Montreal UQAM will host the 7th Esperanto Congress of the Americas (TAKE7), whose theme this year will be 'Ecosystems, Languages, Cultures: Diversity for a Sustainable Development in the Americas'. Organized by Esperanto-UQAM and the Quebec Esperanto Society, TAKE7 will...

Articles 2008-07-10

Axis Communications Chooses Tek's On-Demand Language Management Tools for Centralized Quality Assurance

Tek Translation International, a worldwide provider of business solutions to meet globalization needs, today announced that Axis Communications is adopting Tek's OneWorld Platform technology and TekTerm, an on-demand terminology management solution, to facilitate and manage the translation of its marketing and product literature into 12 languages. The global leader in...

Articles 2008-07-10