On March 8, 2010

How Nice is Too Nice for Women at Work?

For women in particular, deciding how nice to be at work is a continuous balancing act. Be too nice and you risk being ineffective and gaining an unhelpful reputation as a pushover. Go too far in the other direction and,

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Permanently Erase Sensitive Text Messages

If you're looking for a way to limit your legal exposure from text messages, I've got just the thing for you.

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Finding Balance: The Zen of Productivity

I’m not sure why I subscribe to so many business magazines; I never have time to read them. Maybe I hope that just the quick glimpses I catch of their glossy covers filled with young energetic multimillionaire entrepreneurs will inspire…

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For Tax Pros, It’s Bookkeeper Appreciation Season!

Now is the time I want a really good bookkeeper. Not for me – for my tax clients!

As an accountant, it’s so much easier and quicker to do a Schedule C when there's a nice tidy profit & loss…

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Publishers: The New Filter-Tips

Recently, Amazon announced that it was offering 70 percent royalty rates to authors interested in self-publishing for the Kindle platform. That rate is considerably higher than the 10-ish percent standard in the publishing industry today for print

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iPhone Gets Down to Business With Open Source BI App

Users of apps from BIRT, the open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project, will be able to access them on the iPhone starting Monday. Actuate, which founded the BIRT project and coleads it with the Eclipse

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Innovate or Perish. Small Businesses are Having a Tough Time Innovating.

Network Solutions and the Center for Excellence in Service at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business released the findings of their Small Business Success Index survey on February 16. The index is designed to track the…

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Shopping for a Bank, Part I: The Small Community Bank

I am not a numbers person. I hated math class while I was in school, starting in kindergarten and going right through college. During my two required statistics courses in college, I felt like I was dying a slow death. …

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On March 8, 2010

Mobile Application or Mobile Website or Both?

With the continued popularity of smartphones, more and more retailers are launching either mobile websites or mobile applications by the day. Many who haven’t yet taken the plunge are wondering what to invest their resources in first.