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Can She Lead? Are Women Better Technical Writing Managers Than Men?

June 3rd, 2010 · View Comments · Leadership

The Harvard Business Review asks What the U.S. Can Learn From Europe About Gender Equality in the Workplace, and then Can She Lead? These articles raise the sensitive issue of a) whether women make good bosses, 2) want to be bosses and (slightly controversially), 3) will men support women bosses or do their best to [...]

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The Importance of Measuring Productivity: 10 Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made in 2010 So Far

April 26th, 2010 · View Comments · Leadership

Every three months, I examine the performance of my business, my team and our products. It’s the simplest way I’ve found to measure productivity and ensure that we stay on track. The phrase,’Fail to prepare, prepare to fail’, often comes to mind when we do this assessment. If you don’t know your mistakes you’re going [...]

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Affiliate Program For Writing and Small Business Sites

January 31st, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

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White Paper Templates

January 31st, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Fro those involved in Sales or Marketing, Klariti (www.klariti.com) have just updated their White Paper templates. In the IT industry, white papers and case studies are often produced in tandem, as they are both used as sales collateral. However, white papers, its important to note, are not technical documents per se. From a business viewpoint, [...]

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Mistakes in the Vendor Selection Process

January 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Matthew Gnabasik in his book “Smart Choices: Selecting and Administering A Safe 401(k) Plan” provides some good advice on common mistakes in the vendor selection process. The 401kHelpCenter.com site have paraphrased some of them. Not Asking Enough Tough Questions: You decide to ask for help in the search process and turn to a broker or [...]

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Adobe Acrobat 3D released

January 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Adobe has released Adobe Acrobat 3D, which will offer document-based 3D design collaboration capabilities. With Acrobat 3D, design engineering, technical publishing and creative professionals can easily convert 3D models from a wide variety of major computer-aided design (CAD) formats and embed them into Adobe PDF files — regardless of whether they have CAD software. It [...]

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Software User Assistance Project Management

January 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Tamara Ferris takes a look at a methodology for developing and managing a Software User Assistance (UA) System, a way of doing things in a structured manner. It provides a complete walkthrough for managers responsible for designing, developing, and managing a software product’s user assistance system. The software’s UA system could comprise of both paper-based [...]

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11 Techniques to Increase Page Views on Your Blog: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

January 21st, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Darren Rowse is a must read for anyone interested in making money from blogging. “At least one commenter on the previous post noted that they are happy with a low page view count because it could mean people are leaving their blog by clicking on an advertisement and thereby earning them money. While there could [...]

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Technorati

January 21st, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Very interesting (free) service for those involved in serious blogging. Technorati Profile Ivan

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Guidelines for PhD Research Proposals

January 21st, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Dr Alison Pullen offers some excellent advise for those involved in writing PhD research proposals. “A research proposal forms the basis of the initial process in applying to the Department for a place on the MPhil or PhD programme. It is the main way in which the applicant and their research ideas can be assessed. [...]

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How to Write a Great Case Study

January 20th, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Case Studies are one of the most effective tools you can use to promote your products and services, especially if you are on a limited marketing budget. According to market research, next to White Papers, they are the second most popular device used to advance the benefits of a product or service. In addition to [...]

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Proposal Development Gold-dust

January 20th, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently on Bud Porter-Roth’s site. It’s hard to find anything better when it comes to offering practical and informative proposal writing techniques. Unlike many pretenders, when you read Bud’s material, you know that this man definitely knows what he’s talking about. Worth book-marking!http://www.erms.com/resource.htm And while I’ve read—and re-read—several [...]

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Ron Sheer Interview – Plain English Writing Techniques

January 20th, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Hi Folks, I had the good pleasure to interview Ron Sheer, who raises some very interesting points about the benefits of using plain English (aka plain language) techniques when preparing business correspondence. His own site also has some terrific material. His keep-it-simple approach is based on two user-centered principles: Make information easy to find. Then [...]

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Proposal Writing Course – Lesson 5 Writing a Request For Proposal

January 18th, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Writing a Request for Proposal (also called an Invitation To Tender) is hard work. After you have polished the final draft and sent it out, the next step is to wait for the proposals to come back in. If you’re working on a large tender, you can sometimes expect 20,30, 50 or even hundreds of [...]

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Proposal Writing Course – Lesson 4 Understanding the Tender Opening Process

January 18th, 2006 · Comments Off · Business Process, How To, Tips

Government contracting is big business. Companies invest considerable resources into their bids and depend on winning contracts to support their business. To keep the tendering process more transparent, there is now formal tender opening procedures where the tenders are officially opened. For Europe Union contracts, this process often occurs in public to ensure that all [...]

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