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Barbara's View: Content Management: When do we need it?
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Thursday, March 6, 2008. Content Management: When do we need it? We all use content management to some degree. When we start out our companies we use what I like to call the "unknown folder system". This folder hierarchical system is set up by one person and as the company grows the location of content within the folders is passed on via written procedures or more likely through word-of-mouth. Here is a...
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Barbara's View: The One Minute Millionaire, The Enlightened Way to Wealth - Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. The One Minute Millionaire, The Enlightened Way to Wealth - Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen. OK, I cheated a bit with this book. I picked it up on CD and listened to it on my way to client sites, but I can still tell you that this book is worth reading (or listening to). The One Minute Millionaire. Hansen and Allen talk about the two key requirements to build wealth:.
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Barbara's View: Too Much and Not Enough
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Too Much and Not Enough. Wow it has been a long time since I have written anything for this blog. Like many people, I have good intentions and lots to say, but the drive to be consistent with the posts has been taken over by the ‘doing’ of my business. So what have I been ‘doing’ for the past year? Too much and not enough. I have created a team to take one of my ideas to patent a...
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Barbara's View: What's in a Style Sheet
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Thursday, September 10, 2009. What's in a Style Sheet. Alphabetized Spelling and Word Use Tab. We had a client that insisted on having the 'TM' symbol on every instance of their product name. So in this list under C for the product name we listed. This told the writer how this word would be used. We also listed industry words (after we have confirmed spelling with industry associations or resources).
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Barbara's View: Corporate Growth - What Happens? - Part I
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Monday, February 11, 2008. Corporate Growth - What Happens? This article is going to cover some of the painful transitioning points I have been witness to in my own business and in my experience with other businesses. This is not a road map but more like a legend. Hiring the right person(s). Have you ever hired someone and found that they cannot do the job as well as you do? It is the same in business, ...
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Barbara's View: DocTrain UX Conference Review (April 18-21, 2007 in Vancouver BC)
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Sunday, April 22, 2007. DocTrain UX Conference Review (April 18-21, 2007 in Vancouver BC). I was just in lovely Vancouver BC for five days to attend the annual DocTrain UX. User's experience) conference. My experience was very positive and for my business very valuable. Let me tell you why. First, my company provides information management and content creation primarily. What did it look like? The first...
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Barbara's View: Customer Loyalty Programs
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Monday, August 31, 2009. As business owners we all struggle with ways to reward our best clients for their business. We all know that it is easier to get business from a returning client than it is to get a new client. Which is not their real name. Is a successful Canadian company, with a long history of service. They started offering their products and services for the consumer market and diversifi...
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Barbara's View: Talking to Sarah - A Darwinian Lexicon
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Monday, October 29, 2007. Talking to Sarah - A Darwinian Lexicon. Sarah is another one of those women. A mother of two and college instructor, she is also getting her degree, as well as working on potential business opportunities. We know we have a living language when the dictionary gets revised yearly to include new words. These new words come from people like us. We develop these words to des...I wan...
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Barbara's View: Exploring a Business Idea (helping during transition)
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Friday, July 24, 2009. Exploring a Business Idea (helping during transition). The program is part of the outplacement program offered by Right Management ( www.right.com. The people that fill this room are extremely experienced in their past positions often in global corporate leading businesses. The interaction from the questions and ideas with these people always gives me something to think about ...
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Barbara's View: CMS or Version Control - which one for documentation?
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Describing the experiences of a company owner as she learns more about technology, business, and life. Friday, January 11, 2008. CMS or Version Control - which one for documentation? I believe now that CMS tools are becoming more available and cost effective this questions is being seriously asked but the habits of the past are making it hard for us to justify the cost of the change. Many trips to the active and archived document filing system. The walking around of drafts for sign-off. Kevin Ballard of ...