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• Looking Beyond the aposTwitter Costs Businesses $2.25 Billion' Headline

  BNET - 2009-10-27

  BBC News reports on a new survey commissioned by a U.K. IT services firm which concludes that "staff who use Twitter and other social networking sites while at work are costing UK businesses £1.38bn every year." Nearly 60% of the 1,460 office workers surveyed said they use social networking sites...

  Tags: social networking, Twitter Inc., Social Networking Site, Morse Plc.

• Social Networks Blamed For $2.25B In Lost Productivity

  BNET - 2009-10-26

  Short stretches can really accumulate.  Did you know, for instance, that if someone comes back from lunch nine or ten minutes late every day, he or she will take the equivalent of free week of paid vacation per year?  And similarly, one IT services and technology company believes social networking...

  Tags: Facebook, social networking, Twitter Inc., Hitwise, Morse Plc.

• Twittering workers cost business £1.4bn

  BNET - 2009-10-26

  More than half of office staff spend 40 minutes a week on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook for personal use while at work, costing businesses an estimated £1.4bn ($2.3bn) a year in lost productivity, according to a survey. Out of 1,460 workers surveyed by Morse, an information technology...

  Tags: social networking, Twitter Inc., Morse Plc.

• Yahoo's Morse: Business Has 'Stabilized'

  PaidContent - 2009-10-20

  In its earnings report, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) emphasized that the company’s businesses had “stabilized”—and that word was repeated during the company’s earnings call. CFO Tim Morse repeatedly compared the company’s figures to the previous quarter, saying that the company had seen “strength in key areas of our business after...

  Tags: Morse Plc., Yahoo! Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Advertising, Search, Money, Earnings, Companies, Yahoo, Joseph Tartakoff

• Updated: Yahoo Revenue Drops 12 Percent

  BNET - 2009-10-20

  Yahoo on Tuesday reported a profit jump of 30 percent in the third quarter, though its revenue dipped 12 percent. Net income was $186 million, up from $54 million during the same time period last year. Total revenue was $1.575 billion, down 12 percent from $1.786 billion in the third...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Morse Plc.

• MyTwoCensus and the Future of Journalism

  BNET - 2009-03-31

  If you happen to be a doctor, every time someone meets you at a party, the chances are good that he or she will ask you about some weird symptoms they have been having lately. Naturlly, you get sick of it, but it comes with the territory. ...

  Tags: Morse Plc., Journalism, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Blogging, Human Resources, Internet, David Weir

• Donation jump starts WWU's Karen W. Morse institute

  - 2008-10-01

  Jack Bowman, Western Washington University graduate and retired head of Johnson & Johnson, and Jo Ann Bowman have donated $1 million to the university's new Karen W Morse Institute for Leadership. The institute is named in honor of WWU President Emeritus Karen Morse. The $1 million gift will be...

  Tags: institute, Johnson & Johnson, Leadership, Morse Plc., Western Washington University

• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

  - 2008-09-22

  What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe. The Oxford History of the United States series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 904 pp. $35.00 US cloth. Thomas Carlyle's notion that it is great men that make history has not had much traction lately....

  Tags: American, Americans, Daniel, History, Morse Plc., Oxford University Press

• Hack Your Note-Taking With the Morse Code Method

  - 2008-07-30

  Hack Your Note-Taking With the Morse Code MethodMorseWhere was this when I was in school?! D'oh!RE: Hack Your Note-Taking With the Morse Code MethodInteresting approach, but I am personally do not like to make any marks on book. I am reading with a smartphone and write ideas to it.

  Tags: Note-taking, Morse Plc., Morse Code, Morse Code Method

• Hack Your Note-Taking With the Morse Code Method

  BNET - 2008-07-30

  If you do a lot of reading or research in your job, taking notes the old-fashioned way can really slow you down as you're wading through tons of white papers or reams of reports. But here's a hack that's guaranteed to speed things up: an approach called the Morse Code...

  Tags: Morse Plc., Recruitment & Selection, Web Browsers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, CC Holland