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Let’s face it: never before has knowing about emerging consumer trends been as important as it is now. Luckily, finding out about trends has become much, much easier. In a world that’s fully connected, where tens of thousands of smart professionals and amateurs are spotting, observing, thinking…
Laptop owners/users: LaptopLogic.com has a list of freeware resources that you really need to know about, including the invaluable Notebook Hardware Control utility (which allows you to prolong your system’s life by customizing the CPU, hard drive and fan settings to keep your laptop nice and cool…
We’re definitely into act two of the outsourcing drama. TPI notes that the first-generation deals are all now coming up for review—they expect to see €36.5bn of renewals in 2006 rising to €40.8bn in 2007—over a fifth of the total market. Although historically 90% of renewals go to incumbents this…
Not too long ago, a senior manager asked me to write a short page of talking points explaining why it was a good idea to have professional communicators–in this case, technical communicators–on staff. Here’s what I came up with. Maybe you can use it too (or refine it–comments are welcome!) What do…
Apologies for the long blogging gap; I’m just back from a business trip where I had limited connectivity at best, and just catching up. Since we’ve just come through performance review season, I’m pointing to this very good Christian Science Monitor article from January 31, on the topic of getting…
Blogging will be light for the next day or two and likely “lumpy” afterwards; my usual posting schedule (before and after working hours, East Coast time) will be way off, as I’m heading to London for a week on a business trip, and Internet access (and time to write) will have to adjust to that new…
StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central…
Hiding confidential information with black marks works on printed copy, but not with electronic documents, the National Security Agency has warned government officials. The agency makes the point in a guidance paper on editing documents for release, published last month following several…
I have long been a fan of O’Reilly Media’s technical books, and a happy subscriber to “Safari Bookshelf,” their online library; in its most basic form, for about $10 a month the Safari plan entitles you to read up to five O’Reilly books on-screen at the same time. It’s a tremendous bargain and…
Here’s a good overview of how to avoid some all-too-common mistakes when constructing a PowerPoint presentation: 8 mistakes when creating PowerPoint presentations (SympleByte.)