Who says we have to sit at desks to be productive? Leggett & Platt is showing off a product they have in development called the “Starry Night Bed.” I call it a bed made for web workers. Not only does it integrate the kinds of electronic… Read More »
Dian Schaffhauser
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I was just relearning how to work with Google AdWords and noticed that its tutorials include quiz questions. Why? Because you may want to test your knowledge along the way and eventually become a Google Advertising Professional. To do so, you need to pass an exam, which… Read More »
If you’re wondering how to increase the number of people who sign up for your email newsletter, Don Nicholas, editor and managing director for consulting group Mequoda Group, has a tip for you: Don’t call it an email newsletter. “That’s kind of an overused term,” he says.… Read More »
In spite of the fact that some marketing people downplay the value of email newsletters in these days of saturated inboxes, Don Nicholas, editor and managing director for the Mequoda Group, says he has clients today who can prove that between 70% and 80% of every… Read More »
We’ve shared six ways to start off secure in 2008, shown you how to keep your public wi-fi sessions secure, and supplied you with suggestions for free VPN solutions. But how about if you’re in the IT organization and you want to make sure that all… Read More »
Sure, they’ve heard the complaints and jokes about Indian accents. Yes, they know that when your computer is broken, you can’t always go online for the help you need to fix it. But the era of personal service outsourcing is here, and iYogi, a new service… Read More »
[digg=http://digg.com/gadgets/Why_Corporate_IT_Shouldn_t_Support_Your_iPhone]iPhones sales may have made France Telecom bright during the holidays and it could truly be the most memorable new product launch for 2007, but that doesn’t mean your corporate IT organization should have to support it. At least, that’s the conclusion coming out of Forrester,… Read More »
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Getting a Fatter Payoff in 2008
Last week, we shared the story of Michelle LaBrosse, who runs successful virtual operation Cheetah Learning. This week she shares the secret to getting that bonus or raise (or both) that you believe you deserve this year. These are strategies her own people have used on… Read More »
6 Secrets to Running a Virtual Company
Michelle LaBrosse believes she knows how to motivate people. After all, the company she founded — Cheetah Learning — trains people to achieve their project management credential, the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional or PMP. She says that 97% of the people who attend one… Read More »
3 Scrappy Project Management Techniques to Master (Plus 2 Tips)
Although we’ve shared a multitude of project management tools with you since the start of Web Worker Daily (including, since just the beginning of the month, “Organize Your Life With Jott,” “(Mostly) Free Resources for the Web Worker Who Works on the Web,” and “QuickBase Goes… Read More »
¿Hable Español En Línea?
Are you a web worker whose business involves web sites? If so, how often do you think about Hispanic consumers? According to a recent report from Forrester Research, this segment of the population is 44.3 million strong — 15% of the United States as a whole… Read More »
A Look at a Few Page Ranking Tools
What do you use to monitor the page ranks your sites have in search engines? You could — as I have done — enter the term into a given engine and count where a particular site appears; but that can be tedious when the site isn’t… Read More »
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