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U.S. Marine Corps Jumps into Social Networking
In case your boss is an ex-Marine and you're trying to convince him to approve your social networking budget, here's a story that might help: the Marines have launched their own social networking site at Our.Marines.com. The site is not exactly Facebook (it's more of an advertorial...
Tags: Network, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jon Greer
Blog posts 2008-08-05
The Staggering Cost of Procrastination
Think the time you spend answering e-mail, composing IMs, and trolling Twitter doesn't have an impact? Think again. A recent study by research firm Basex puts the "cost of unnecessary interruptions” in terms of lost productivity and innovation at a shocking $650 billion. Merlin Mann blogged about the cost of...
Tags: CC Holland, Career, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Professional Development, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, E-mail, Software, Health Care
Blog posts 2008-08-04
6 Strategies to Beat Your Internet Addiction
The Internet might be a wonderful thing, but it's also a productivity killer. Why? U.S. office workers waste about 20 percent of each day, and surfing the Web tops the list of time-wasting activities. Even valid, work-related Internet usage, such as answering e-mail, reading news, and using...
Tags: CC Holland, Online Communications, E-mail, Internet, Strategy
Blog posts 2008-08-01
Get a Basecamp Wiki for Every Project
Rick has mentioned it before, but here's another reminder that if you're looking for an online collaboration tool, Basecamp is the way to go. I use Basecamp wikis to collaborate on story ideas for the magazine I run, collect tips for Business Hacks, and manage several different small software projects....
Tags: David Goldenberg, Online Communications, Wiki, Collaboration, Rick, Online Collaboration
Blog posts 2008-07-31
Replace Business Cards with Dropcard
Business cards: How 20th-century. Dropcard lets you exchange your contact information -- and then some -- with others using only your cell phone. It's a free service, and it's pretty cool. Let's say you meet someone at a trade show. Instead of handing over a business card...
Tags: Rick Broida, Online Communications, E-mail, Dropcard, Business Card, Card
Blog posts 2008-07-30
100 Productivity Tips for Your iPhone
Sure, it's already a great phone, Web browser, e-mail client, and so on, but your iPhone can be used for so much more. Internet Service Deals lists 100 ways to turn an iPhone into the ultimate productivity tool. A few of my favorites: Find out where people...
Tags: Apple iPhone, E-mail, Online Communications, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-07-29
Get Organized With Remember the Milk
Looking for a good Web-based task-management app ? You might want to check out Remember the Milk RTM. The folks at Black Belt Productivity rave: "Remember the Milk is an excellent task management app that excels with its use of tagging and smart lists through the use of its...
Tags: Telephony, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, CC Holland, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS
Blog posts 2008-07-29
New, Easier Comments Feature
After lurking on the site as one of the new product managers for BNET, I wanted to use my first post to let you know about a new site feature that will be debuting shortly. Our comments will soon be displayed in a...
Tags: Online Communications, Branding, E-mail, Username, Product Manager, Marketing, LizK
Blog posts 2008-07-29
When Worlds Collide: Facebook's Diminishing ROI for Business Users
Do you find Facebook a helpful tool for maintaining and growing business contacts, or are you contemplating what Harvard Online editor Paul Michelman is about to do: "Defriend" all his business contacts. As a business tool, says Michelman, Facebook is not working, and it's...
Tags: Marketing, Online Communications, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Workforce Management, Social Networking, Productivity, Roi/Tco, Business Contact, ROI, Facebook, Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Advertising & Promotion
Blog posts 2008-07-24
Stress Ball: Are You Run Over by Email?
Think email is controlling your work life? Check out the in-box of John Halamka, the chief information officer for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. According to a recent Boston Globe story, Halamka "leaves 50 percent of his day's schedule open for responding to...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Online Communications, E-mail
Blog posts 2008-07-15
How to Send Free Text Messages on Your iPhone
If your iPhone service plan doesn't include text messages or you routinely burn through your monthly allotment, here's a trick for getting unlimited SMS without spending a penny. In a nutshell, you install the iPhone AIM client iTunes link, then add new AIM contacts in your desktop instant-messaging program (iChat, AIM,...
Tags: Rick Broida, Networking, Personal Technology, Digital Media, Digital Music, Cellular Phones, Instant Messaging, Telephony, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, AOL Instant Messenger, Apple iPhone, Internet, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics
Blog posts 2008-07-15
Remember Where You Parked with G-Park for iPhone
In honor of today's iPhone 3G launch, here's a clever new app that taps the new model's GPS capabilities: G-Park, which helps you navigate back to where you parked your car. All you do is tap the Park Me button optionally adding details about where you parked. Later, when you...
Tags: Google Maps, E-mail, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Digital Music, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Rick Broida, Wireless LANs, GPS, 3G, Apple iPhone
Blog posts 2008-07-11
U.N. Global Compact Delists 630 Companies
What do Tyco Services, Huatai Group, Ford Malaysia, L'Oreal Argentina, Barclay's Bank of Ghana and The Ethical Investment Company of Australia all have in common? Each is among the 630 companies the United Nations Global Compact has booted off of its worldwide list of participants for failure to submit a...
Tags: Finance, Human Resources, Web Site Development, E-mail, Business Structures, Government, Labor Relations, Principle, Internet, Michael Mattis, Online Communications
Blog posts 2008-07-11
Stop Being "Distracted"
Maggie Jackson's book Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age," is getting real buzz. I got this subject line in my email yesterday: Are You Feeling Distracted? (My first thought: just about every minute of the day.) Are you feeling saturated...
Tags: Attention, Maggie Jackson, Jackson, E-mail, Online Communications, Instant Messaging, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Michael Fitzgerald, Phone, IM
Blog posts 2008-07-11
Are Airline Miles Trading Markets Worth It?
As someone who flies frequently but whose only loyalty is to the airliner that can get me the cheapest seat to where I'm going, I almost always find myself with a bunch of miles spread out over a bunch of frequent flier programs. Which is why I have subscriptions to...
Tags: David Goldenberg, Online Communications, E-mail, Mile
Blog posts 2008-07-11
Where Should eBay Draw the Line Against Fakes?
Last week, online auction giant, eBay, said it would appeal a $63 million ruling against it by a French court, which found the company liable for facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury goods, including the famed Louis Vuitton signature handbags. The suit was brought by LVMH Group, which owns the...
Tags: Michael Mattis, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Online Communications, eBay Inc., Peer To Peer (P2P), E-mail, Security, E-business/E-Commerce
Blog posts 2008-07-10
"Globality" Podcast: Emerging Economies Doing it Their Way
A while back I posted on "Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything," a new book written by three experts from the Boston Consulting Group, Harold L. Sirkin, James W. Hemerling and Arindam K. Bhattacharya. A smart discourse on how local companies in developing economies, such...
Tags: Online Communications, Peter Galuszka, Internet, E-mail, Podcasts, Economy
Blog posts 2008-07-10
Delegate or Die
If you don't delegate, you won't actually kick the bucket. But there are times when doing it all by yourself makes you feel like you're ready for an early grave, right? It that sounds like you, executive coach Leila Bulling Towne has some advice on how to hand off and...
Tags: CC Holland, Management, Online Communications, Team Management, E-mail, Delegate, Grave
Blog posts 2008-07-10
"Lazy" Days of Summer?
Going in vacation this summer? With the high price of fuel, increasing the costs of plane trips, road trips and even train trips, you might be better off staying home with a good book. But for how long? That depends on where you live. As BNET1's Jessica...
Tags: Vacation, Video, Corporate Communications, E-mail, Michael Mattis, Online Communications, Marketing
Blog posts 2008-07-10
Convince Consumers to Indulge for Their Own Good
As people continue to pinch pennies in a slowing economy, how does the seller of upscale products and services convince them to buy items that are impractical Hummer, unnecessary Amazon rain forest excursion, or expensively luxurious Lobster of the Month Club? The answer is simple. Lay...
Tags: Online Communications, Human Resources, Benefits, Marketing Research, E-mail, Gender And Diversity, Item, Professor, Sean Silverthorne, Marketing
Blog posts 2008-07-09
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