As a professional resume writer, I often get questions from friends and family members about the finer points of crafting the perfect document. While many people want to know whether you really need to list off your skills in a “core competencies section” (you do) others have more specific questions. Lately, I’ve gotten a lot... More »5 Tips for Writing a Resume When You’re Changing Careers
News broke over the weekend that Yahoo! has agreed to buy microblogging site Tumblr for an estimated $1.1 billion. Responses to the news have been, to say the least, negative: Mashable has a list of user reactions on Twitter and Tumblr that range from shocked and angry to outrageous and silly. The general consensus from... More »Sellout: Yahoo! Rumored to Buy Tumblr
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So with a click I watched two things happen. First, I started the change over to a new backend to my daily RSS feed reading and more importantly I shut down my Google Reader services. I said goodbye to an important tool in my arsenal but it has given me some time to reflect on... More »Wagging the Dog and Old Internet Services
An established business tool across the food industry, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is gaining traction across the wider spectrum of wholesale companies. Here, we look at some of the reasons why. EDI – the key to genuine supply chain integration For businesses looking to achieve genuine supply chain integration, EDI is an absolute must. It... More »EDI – What is it, and Why Do I Need it? (Part 5/5)
Design Thinking For Your Mobile Strategy Design Thinking is a powerful problem-solving approach that spurs innovation and growth by combining what is desirable from a human perspective with what makes the most sense technologically and economically. In Mobile Minute #10, we discussed how design thinking could help you create an unbeatable Mobile strategy. In Mobility... More »7 Steps To Leverage Design Thinking For Your Mobile Strategy (Part 2)
In a very short time the number of computing related clouds have exploded, Public, Private, Hybrid etc. Everything seems to be rebranded/ cobranded/ reinvented/ paint jobbed as a ‘Cloud’. Many questions are being raised, e.g. will a SaaS cloud float at a higher level than a PaaS cloud and will they all float on top... More »Revisiting The Question: What Do You Call A Group Of Clouds?
How do you use social selling to continue the conversation after the event or trade show? Your feet are aching, your back is probably hurting, and you might still have the ‘customer smile’ set in stone on your face, but there is still quota and sales goals to meet. I just returned from SAP’s SAPPHIRE... More »Social Selling: 5 Ways To Continue the Conversation After the Big Event
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Previously the Greatest Things Since Sliced Bread It’s amazing how technology has evolved over the past 20 years. From clunky desktop computers to sleek and inconspicuous smartphones, our devices have become faster, stronger, and better. So have the websites that we visit on a daily basis. Inspired by our past post on gone and almost... More »Internet Artifacts: 7 Websites From the Days of Yore
A couple of years ago, I lived in a single room. It wasn’t very large, but I still somehow managed to squeeze all my stuff into it. I slept in there, ate in there, watched TV, played Xbox and worked until the small hours in there. Everything was OK until it came to cleaning that... More »A House Too Small To Clean
It’s hard to believe Memorial Day is right around the corner. The beginning of summer means the end of the school year, the opening of swimming pools (in many places), the beginning of vacation season, and more. For businesses, it is time for the mid-year course correction. June is the ideal time to review all... More »Time for the Mid-Year Course Correction
It has become widely recognized that manual paper-based invoice processing has inherent problems that disadvantage companies in critical ways, undermining productivity and impeding the flow of information. Ignoring the problem is proving less and less an option in the current economic and competitive climate. “Resistance is futile,” says PayStream Advisors, asserting that the percentage of... More »The Danger of Clinging to Paper-Based Document Processing
Anyone who runs a small business has to stay on the lookout for threats to their company, such as thieves, competitors and natural disasters. With hacking and security breaches on the rise, small businesses are targeted more often than you might expect, and often with far-reaching, devastating consequences. More »4 Steps To Protect Your Business And Partners From Cyber Attacks
This week, Philips introduced an intelligent LED light bulb that could transform the lighting and electronics industry. The company calls its smart bulbs the Hue 1.1 which features several hi-tech features. The geofencing feature enables users to program Hue to change colors, as well as, turn on or off when the user arrives. As stated... More »Philips Partners with Apple on Smart LED Bulb
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