Category Archives: Business Technology

How has technology changed the way we conduct business?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives. Just look around you and you’ll see how wired we are. Thanks to the Internet, virtually anything you desire can be delivered to your door in a matter of days. Personal information is more accessible over the Internet as well — you can look up everything from a long-lost cousin to the registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. You can even trade stocks or file taxes online. Parents don’t need to lose sleep waiting for their teenage daughter to come home — they can just call her cell phone, or send an unobtrusive text, to check up.

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Employers warned about snooping on staff via social

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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Employers have been warned that they risk being sued for discrimination if they use websites like Facebook to snoop on the private lives of their prospective workers.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8734904/Employers-warned-about-snooping-on-staff-via-social-networks.html

 

 

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Once upon a time, business meetings were held without cost-controlling software. How quaint.

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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We’d like to introduce you to a better solution:

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Reaping higher rewards: automating payables processing

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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Keep it in, or outsource it?

Choosing how best to improve the efficiency of your accounts payable operation can be a difficult decision to make, but get it right and huge financial savings can be made.

For some, outsourcing the handling of accounts is an effective approach – but by its nature is not entirely risk free. This is because companies relinquish control of the invoicing process and subsequently miss opportunities to identify potential areas of inefficiency.

Of course, keeping accounts in-house places control back into corporate hands but is equally vulnerable to human error, data inaccuracy and system integration issues. All of which can waste time and money.

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http://www.businesswings.co.uk/articles/Automating-payables-processing

 

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5 Tips for conducting a Virtual Meeting

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Editor| 2 Comments

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Virtual meetings are the suboptimal reality of most information workers’ lives. They save on travel time and costs, but they deprive meeting-goers of a host of non-verbal signals that help us understand each other. Without the body language, the information stream goes down from broadband to dial-up, the signal to noise ratio goes up, and the possibility for miscommunication accordingly rises.

And it’s not just the visual cues that are missing. The quality of most phone lines and digital voice lines are quite poor, so a huge amount of vocal tone is also lost, and the resulting loss of nuance makes virtual meetings even less satisfying and more difficult.

So what’s to be done? Here are five steps you can take to help put some of the richness back into a virtual meeting.

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http://www.yourtrainingteam.com/new-manager/5-tips-for-conducting-a-virtual-meeting/

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Mayor Wants Meetings on the Clock—Literally

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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Longwinded staffers at New York City Hall better heed Polonius’ advice about brevity being the soul of wit—Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s latest office enhancement demonstrates he doesn’t have time for dillydallying.

The mayor has ordered the installation of count-up clocks in meeting rooms throughout City Hall to make staffers mindful of how much time they’re spending jawing with one another. The technology is super simple, you push a button at the start of the meeting, and the display shows all participants how much time has passed.

Read more here:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704698004576104420112230608-lMyQjAxMTAxMDIwNTEyNDUyWj.html

Maybe Mr Bloomberg should make use of this simple software! https://www.2muchtalk.com

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Managing an Online Reputation

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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Your customers are talking about you — and the whole world is listening.

Local review sites are reshaping the world of small business by becoming the new Yellow Pages, one-stop platforms where customers can find a business — and also see independent critiques of its performance.

How do you manage your reputation when everybody is a critic?

For some business owners, this is a terrifying prospect that seems more like mob rule than the wisdom of crowds. Negative reviews can hang an albatross around your neck if they appear prominently in search results. Happily, there is a big upside: referrals from happy clients are traditionally the best source of new business — and online forums are powerful word-of-mouth. The review process has been democratized.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/business/smallbusiness/30reputation.html?ref=technology

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Review: Naturally Speaking for heavy duty dictation

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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Voice recognition is still not perfect, but it’s improved massively over the last couple of years, not least thanks to the arrival of impressive smartphone apps like Nuance Dictation and Vlingo which can transcribe what you’re saying with almost uncanny accuracy.

On a phone it works by listening to what you say, transmitting the sounds to the app’s remote servers and matching it to results. A good data connection is essential to make it work.

For office use then, or for road warriors who may not have such a connection, a self-sufficient desk option is required and this new update has lots of advances. True, there’s still a slightly tedious set-up process where you must read text so the program gets used to your voice, but after that, it’s plain sailing.

Read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/businesstechnology/8624105/Review-Naturally-Speaking-for-heavy-duty-dictation.html

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