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Four Tips on Working Together More Efficiently at the Office

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Joe.

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Anyone who’s ever worked in an office setting knows how overwhelming it can sometimes be; there’s office politics, difficult personalities, and deadlines, among other stressful elements. Teamwork is considered a pillar of corporate culture, but sometimes working together efficiently at the office can feel like an assignment of its own.
Have you seen The Office?…Who hasn’t! [...]

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Q is for Q&A

Q is for Q&A

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Laurika.

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How does online collaboration work?
Online collaboration allows you to create private online workspaces where you can work with other people. You can share files, assign tasks, run live virtual meetings and collaborate on ideas.
How can collaboration help my business?
It can save you money. If you are a small business without huge amounts of capital, you [...]

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Introducing Web 2.0 to the public sector

Introducing Web 2.0 to the public sector

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Zuzanna.

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With cloud and social computing touted as the top strategic technologies in 2010 by Gartner, Web 2.0 know-how has become a vital requirement for most private and public sector organisations.
So if you’re working in the public sector or working with the government organisations, this might be something for you – our first ever webinar about [...]

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P is for Productivity

P is for Productivity

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Laurika.

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My job requires me to do a lot of research. For most projects I need to do background reading or search for a company or person that has expertise in the area I’m writing about. However it shames me to say that I end up trawling through sites for hours under the guise of doing [...]

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Plan your day

Plan your day

Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by Jaan Orvet.

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We have all worked with people who seem to never really know what they are supposed to do that day. A lot of daily hair pulling, searching for not-really-sure, and even a spot of whining are the hallmarks of Mr or Ms Unorganized-Unfocused.
Useless, they are. It is because they don’t know how to prep.
To do [...]

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Project Development Using User Stories vs. Using To-Dos

Project Development Using User Stories vs. Using To-Dos

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ryan A.

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Project managers are constantly balancing and matching the requirements of the project, as received from the customer, with the specifications and details needed by the development teams as the project moves through its development cycle. Using user stories to develop a product requirements document (PRD) can often be more efficient than a list of [...]

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O is for Online Team Building Games

O is for Online Team Building Games

Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Laurika.

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Online or virtual teams need just as much motivation as office based ones, even more so because they rarely, if ever, see each other in real life. This is where virtual games can be used for more than just having a good time.
Spy Inc makes you a 007
Is it a game or is it real?
As [...]

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N is for a social networking overview

N is for a social networking overview

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Laurika.

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Social networking is clearly here to stay. Research suggests that 99 percent of 18 to 24 year olds, or generation Y consumers, have an active profile on at least one social network site. Techtarget defines social networking as the practice of expanding one’s business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.
They say that although [...]

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Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Internet Will Look Like in 5 Years

Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Internet Will Look Like in 5 Years

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Ryan A.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a dramatically different internet in five years:  dominated by social networks, real-time user generated content, Chinese language, and super fast 100mb + bandwidth.   No doubt, all of these innovations will also change the way businesses, employees, and customers interact.

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Emerging Web Trends: Why Right Now is a Great Time to Start a New Web Business

Emerging Web Trends: Why Right Now is a Great Time to Start a New Web Business

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Ryan A.

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The internet is facing another transformation, a transformation beyond web 2.0. For those not as familiar with recent web trends, Web 2.0 which lasted roughly from 2005-2008, saw the introduction of the Social Web. Whereas Web 1.0 was read only, Web 2.0 was read/write (anyone can be a publisher). The term “Web 2.0” [...]

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M is for Document Management Software

M is for Document Management Software

Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Laurika.

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David just checked into his hotel in New York. It’s late. He’s tired. But he still has a few changes to make to tomorrow’s PowerPoint presentation. He switches on his laptop and nothing happens. It’s dead. He digs through his bag for his USB stick and realises that he’d left it in his office machine.
Depending [...]

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