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Think you can’t open Office documents without paying hundreds of dollars for software? Think again. Just visit ThinkFree Office Online and you can open, edit, and create Office documents with this easy and convenient online service, new from ThinkFree. With ThinkFree Office Online you can: Create…
The promising web startup SiteAdvisor, which we’ve blogged about before (over at enrevanche) is finishing up their beta period and announcing a three-month-long Free Preview today. SiteAdvisor’s mission is simple: they trawl the web, 24/7, looking for “unsafe” sites (sites that will attempt to load…
Here’s a classic example of why you need writers and editors who understand the subject matter they’re writing about: After almost 20 years languishing on the shelf, large companies are beginning to adopt ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library of IT services best practices…
SCOUT Corporate Blogging offers 10 Tips for Becoming a Great Corporate Blogger. If you blog as part of your business marketing strategy, spend a few minutes and read this post. SCOUT Corporate Blogging (Backbone Media)
A few updates have been made to the Knowledge Worker Free/Open Source Toolbox, which provides a list of freeware and/or open-source alternatives to popular commercial software. Most notably, we’ve added a very good free, open-source functional replacement for Microsoft Project to the tools list…
Most U.S. workers say they feel rushed on the job, but they are getting less accomplished than a decade ago, according to newly released research. Workers completed two-thirds of their work in an average day last year, down from about three-quarters in a 1994 study, according to research conducted…
A new site called Nuvvo offers Web-delivered e-learning to both teachers and students. If you’re an instructional designer, Nuvvo provides a pretty spiffy toolkit for course development. Nuvvo is your way to teach on the web. Everyone knows a little bit about something, and this free, AJAX-enhanced…
Jonathan Grubb describes “some personalities that come out in meetings, especially at big software companies”: 8 types of meeting attendees. If you’ve done any time in project or staff meetings, you’ll recognize a number of these archetypes (The Talker, The Killer, etc.) as well as some contributed…
The dominance of English as the world’s top language — until recently an advantage to both Britain and the United States — is now beginning to undermine the competitiveness of both nations, according to a major research report. The report commissioned by the British Council says monolingual English…
The anonymous blogger behind Dr. ITIL has resurfaced after a long absence with a new blog: IT Service Blog - ITIL Inside (and a related project, an ITIL-focused search engine.) With the current corporate focus heavily on “do more with less”, customer complaints at records levels and the never…