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- Know Your Customer Through the Data - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardWithout understanding your customers and their needs, your business has little chance of satisfying either. In the past, business owners simply got to know their customer over the counter of their brick-and-mortar stores as they conducted business. Although online sales have opened up a whole ...
Views: 456 - Laissez Faire in Hi Tech - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardWith an economy burdened by a slow recovery from the great recession and the government hamstrung by skyrocketing deficits, the suggested solutions for getting us back on track seem to be coming from all directions. The thing is, the answer for hi-tech lies in the same model it has operated on ...
Views: 454 - Making the Connection Between the Environment and Our Health - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardRaising awareness in terms of how pollutants in our environment can come back to bite us is starting to gain traction as more people are now connecting the effect our immediate environment has on our health. Much like the anti-tobacco ads which draw a clear connection between smoking cigarettes ...
Views: 643 - More Scary Healthcare Stats - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardAs the affordability of healthcare spins away from most Americans the statistics surrounding the healthcare industry paint a couple of pictures; one of a populace that increasingly requires healthcare, the other of institutionalized care designed to generate immense profits while impoverishing ...
Views: 1038 - Network Policy Decisions - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardIn order to protect company resources, every business, both large and small, must implement a network access policy to secure both confidential information and core computer systems. If this task is ignored, the net effect is to implement a network access policy that grants full permissions to ...
Views: 698 - Our Children and the Business of Pharmaceuticals - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardAs reported recently in the Wall Street Journal, a study of prescription patterns in 2009, conducted by IMS Health, showed that 25 percent of children in the U.S. were on regular medication. According to the study, 45 million children are taking asthma medications, 24 million are taking ADHD ...
Views: 649 - Presenting Your Private Company to Investors - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardIf the time has come to raise funding to expand your business, you’re likely to be presenting your business to a variety of investors. Assuming that you are past the “friends and family” funding stage, you could end up presenting to investors referred to you by your friends and family or to ...
Views: 630 - Should you Mine for Gold or Sell the Pick-axes? - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardDuring the California gold rush there were essentially two type businesses; the people who flocked to the state to discover gold and the businesses that supported them. Mining for gold was considered to be the more exciting of the two and provided the possibility for overnight riches, which drew ...
Views: 466 - Should you Mine for Gold or Sell the Pick-axes? - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardDuring the California gold rush there were essentially two type businesses; the people who flocked to the state to discover gold and the businesses that supported them. Mining for gold was considered to be the more exciting of the two and provided the possibility for overnight riches, which drew ...
Views: 2052 - Smoke, Mirrors, and Unemployment - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardAccording to U.S. government calculations, the unemployment rate had a huge drop down to 9% in January. The headline number indicated that maybe the worst is over and that America is hiring again. A look at a couple of numbers inside the report took the air out of the report pretty quickly and ...
Views: 689 - Swimming in Chemicals - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardWe are literally swimming in toxins. As evidence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found flame retardant PBDE’s, long thought to be a group of neurotoxicants, in the bloodstreams, umbilical cord blood, and breast milk of over 95 percent of Americans that have been tested. A ...
Views: 566 - Technology Security Measures - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2012 from Kieran PollardWhile most companies have several security defenses in place to guard against threats, such as firewalls and antiviral software, a very important question is still left on the table: Exactly how effective are these measures? Although it is a deceptively simple question, every company must find ...
Views: 721 - The Business threat from Spyware - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardAnyone who uses a modern computer today is aware of spyware. To most people, spyware is a petty annoyance generated by less-than-ethical advertisers, search engine designers, software distributors and hardware manufacturers. Spyware is used to track, record and report activities of interest to ...
Views: 633 - The Challenges of Data Management - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardWhile the hardware required to store massive amounts of data becomes cheaper with each passing year, the resulting explosion of stored data content means that companies are forced to devise innovative new ways to meet the challenges of processing this ever-growing wealth of information. Simply ...
Views: 1102 - The Dangers of Spam - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardSpam, named after the canned meat that has been the butt of many jokes, is the mass sending of unsolicited emails. It clutters email inboxes, makes it hard to find legitimate communications, eats bandwidth, consumes mass amounts of storage, and irritates the computer user. If the computer user ...
Views: 1035 - The Entrepreneurial a Fresh Start - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardIf you starting a new business, the beginning of a new venture that provides a fantastic opportunity should be accompanied by a bunch of excitement and anticipation, right? Setting your goals, developing your strategy, an imagining your life once you’ve achieved what you set out do should have ...
Views: 670 - The Entrepreneur’s Work Day - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardThe greatest benefit of starting your own business is that it’s all yours. You have the freedom to work the hours you want, decide on the work to be done each day, and run your schedule to your choosing. A second substantial benefit of starting an your own business is that, like many successful ...
Views: 754 - The EPA Chooses Political Expediency over Doing the Right Thing - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardIn exempting up to twenty industrial facilities from new federal controls on air pollution and the gases blamed for global warming, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled that the Obama administration does not have the political will to move aggressively on any kind of global ...
Views: 674 - The Evidence Rolls In - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardWithin days of each other, two extreme events occurred on opposite sides of the planet; the 2000 mile wide snowstorm that saw 25 foot waves in Lake Michigan and a monster cyclone that smacked into Australia. It increasingly appears that 200 years of burning coal, oil and gas and dumping their ...
Views: 416 - The Fed, Wall Street, and the Unemployed - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardWith so much going on around it, the Fed appears to have forgotten one of its two mandates; the forgotten one being to promote full employment. The last time anybody there looked, the unemployment rate was and still is 9.5%. This number is very likely to head higher in the second half of the ...
Views: 674 - The Innocents Fight a Life Sentence - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardIn President Obama’s weekly address, he mentioned a visit he made to Penn State this week to learn about energy-efficient technologies at the school's Energy Innovation Hub. He specifically mentioned how researchers and students are designing more energy-efficient buildings as they move toward a ...
Views: 742 - The Jobs That are Disappearing for Good - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardThe job landscape in the US has been in the process of dramatic change, even prior the start of the recession. Two of the main reasons that these jobs are disappearing are advances in technology and the opportunity for companies to outsource work to offshore locales where labor costs are a ...
Views: 778 - The New Mobile Workforce - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardIn 2008, the Interactive Data Corp (IDC) predicted that 75 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile by 2011 with other countries closely approaching that number in the same year. The new tech-savvy workforce is demanding balance and flexibility as part of their day-to-day job description. No ...
Views: 679 - The Real Cost of E-Mail Attachments - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardThe invention of email attachments back in 1996 changed the way that we communicate as well as the way that we view the internet. With the advent of such a system, people started wielding the ability to easily send out properly formatted documents to their email contacts with a very little ...
Views: 858 - Three Takeaways from the Deepwater Horizon Committee’s Findings - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardAlmost six months after the blowout of the Deepwater Horizon was capped, a commission tasked with analyzing what exactly happened has come out with a report that won’t satisfy those on either side of the issue. While it didn’t ask for a ban on offshore drilling neither did it provide a return to ...
Views: 627 - Trusting Corporate America to not Pull a “Lucy” - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardPresident Obama, continuing to stump for messages put forth in the “State of the Union” address, is calling out corporate America for outsourcing jobs. In his recent Saturday morning address, Obama stated, “Government has a responsibility to make the U.S. the best place in the world to do ...
Views: 369 - VoIP vs. Traditional Voice Technologies in the Business Environment - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardVoice over Internet Protocol – a.k.a. VoIP – is taking the business world by storm. While larger companies are slower at shifting their communication departments to the technology, the much more agile small business owner has embraced VoIP as a solution for increased productivity at cut-rate ...
Views: 745 - Wanted: Global Warming Deniers - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardFox News hit the “want ads” the other day seeking someone that would take up the debate on global warming with Al Gore. Fox News science columnist Gene Koprowski recently posted the want ad on ProfNet requesting help and commentary from sources who would be able to "point out the ridiculousness" ...
Views: 478 - What do Protests and Violence in Egypt and Tunisia Signify? - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardProtests have been growing in size and violence for the last several days in Egypt, led on the street by people in their twenties suffering from inflation, exaggerated unemployment, and institutionalized corruption. Additionally, protests against entrenched governments aren’t limited to Cairo. ...
Views: 611 - What happened to our Health Care System? - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardIn the movies an actor gets hit on the head or survives an accident and wakes up saying “What happened?” In reality, a person walks out to the mailbox and looks at a medical bill that wipes out years of savings and asks the same thing. “What happened?” It’s the same for any American that ...
Views: 631 - Where the Debate on Global Warming Is and Isn’t - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardAs the debate over global warming continues apace, it’s important to divide the issues between what is generally agreed upon, where the debate is really focused, and where it isn’t. Despite the nay saying about global warming, a nearly unanimous number of scientists agree that the Earth has ...
Views: 590 - Where We Were, Where Are, and Where We Need to Be - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardQuantifying the global warming problem is as easy as understanding three numbers; 275, 388, and 350. 275 – During all of human history, up until about 200 years ago, our atmosphere contained 275 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Measuring in parts per million is a standard method of ...
Views: 579 - Why are we Subsidizing Big Oil? - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2011 from Kieran PollardPresident Obama must be asking the same thing as he proposes cutting out approximately $36.5 billion a year in oil and gas company subsidies and tax breaks in his new budget, which is set to be released at the end of February. "We will not continue costly tax cuts for oil companies," president ...
Views: 393 - Why You Should Invest in Pre-1933 Gold Coins - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardAs any refined collector will tell you, collecting is not about quantity; it’s about quality. Collecting gold coins is as much an art as acquiring rare paintings or furniture. It requires a knowledge not only of the market, but the items themselves. Pre-1933 gold coins are not only the best ...
Views: 1425 - Wind Power’s Role as an Alternative to Fossil Fuel - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardAlbeit from a small base, wind power continues to grow at a steady pace, doubling in production from 2006 to 2008. Wind farms in the U. S. generated a total of 52 billion kilowatt hours in 2008, making up approximately 1.3% of the total of electricity generated in the country. Despite its small ...
Views: 598 - Wireless Distribution System - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Kieran PollardA Wireless Distribution System (WDS) allows different computers and other hardware, known as access points, to connect using wireless radio frequency links. Anthony Ricigliano Wireless Distribution System is the name of the wireless connection used for the IEEE 802.11 standard network. ...
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