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The Dummies Guide to Change, Diffusion and the Tipping Point
“Magic Studio enables you to build and share interactive learning resources quickly and easily, with no specialist skills required. It’s an online service so you don’t have to install any complicated software - you can access your account from anywhere with a broadband connection. This means you can prepare content when and where it’s convenient and have the flexibility to deliver learning wherever it’s needed, both in and outside the classroom.”
10 Easy Ways to Increase Your Gas Mileage
Yesterday, I stopped to fill up at a local BP station where I shelled out $3.99 a gallon to fill ‘er up. Just down the road, the same grade was over $4.00. I drive an older model Ford Taurus, and it costs about $70.00 for a full tank. In my house, we have a full size Chevrolet Silverado which cost approximately $100.00 to fill and gets a measly 15 mpg in the city. My daughter’s car, a Chevy Malibu, probably gets the best gas mileage out of the three; she can go over 230 miles on a full tank. Not great, but better than the Silverado and the Taurus.
It seems like every day gas prices are going up with no real reason for the increase, and while there are quite a few fuel-efficient vehicles on the market, not everyone can afford to buy a new Toyota Prius or a fancy Hybrid. I did some research and found the Automotive Oil Change Association recently offered up a few recommendations to help us get the most out of our mileage. If you can’t car-pool or take mass transit, the AOCA offers the following tips and tricks:
“Your success and happiness lie in you… Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
Helen Keller
1880-1968, Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer
ALIA survey of internet access in public libraries 2008
In 2002 and 2005, ALIA conducted a survey on internet access in public libraries. We also conducted a smaller survey in 2007 which focussed on technical issues. We are now updating the 2002 and 2005 survey to ensure that we have accurate and up-to-date information in this vital area of library services and freedom of access to information.
Working paper: Gender in Job Negotiations—A Two-Level Game
The traditional division of labor between the sexes—women managing the private realm and men the public—continues to have an indirect influence on job negotiation outcomes through links between private realm and public realm negotiations. Women’s negotiations at work are often constrained by agreements in negotiations at home. For insights, Hannah Riley Bowles and HBS professor Kathleen McGinn review two bodies of literature on gender in negotiation—one from psychology and organizational behavior on candidate-employer negotiations, and another from economics and sociology on household bargaining over chores and child
The Importance of Public Speaking
Public speaking is one spoke on the marketing and PR wheel, but is a very powerful medium to get your name, your company’s name out there and to brand yourself and your organization as thought leaders.
This is an excellent article on getting yourself out to speak, either for yourself or your company (or both!).
Are you *qualified* to start an Internet business?
If you’re like most people, you probably measure your qualifications by your technical skills…
Your ability to design a web site…
Your ability to write sales copy…
Your ability to drive traffic…
But the reality is, NONE of that matters.
Building a business is a FORMULA. If you can understand instructions and follow the formula, you WILL make money online.
So if it’s that simple, why do SO MANY people fail at it?
Personality!
See, there are certain personality traits — inherent in some, but LEARNED by others — that allow people to easily succeed, and other traits that cause people to constantly FAIL.
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What Can Families Do to Keep Children Reading During the Summer?
There are many strategies families might employ to encourage summertime reading.
by Stephen R. Covey, Sandra M. Covey
To Find a Niche: Focus!
Many entrepreneurs think that selling to the widest possible market is thelikeliest path to success. The problem is that the “take all comers” approach isnot very effective as an overall marketing strategy; marketing becomes expensivewhen everyone is a potential prospect.
Today’s small businesses share a fiercely competitive playing field. Combined with information overload, this means that it’s harder to stand out when you havea generic message. If you are merely a “management consultant,” a humble”business coach,” or a nondescript “financial advisor,” you risk fighting it outover price with competitors who offer identical services to yours.
To rise above the fray, you need a compelling business message aimed at the rightpeople. You need to cultivate your own Super Niche.
The shortlists for the 2008 Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards in the U.K. have been released.
Listen to Charlotte’s Web. Hear E.B. White read from his book, virtually visit his farm (in the “Down East” part of Maine) and watch a spider, like Charlotte, spin a web. Also learn how she catches (and eats) food, observe how she lays eggs and find out how her wingless babies (called spiderlings) can “fly” (or “balloon”) from the place where they were hatched.
Want to make your Word documents stand out? Try designing big, bold
headers or footers. Here are two ways to create user-friendly header
and footer text.* Click View / Toolbars. Activate the Drawing toolbar.
* Click View / Header and Footer.
* Click the Drawing toolbar’s Text Box tool.
* Click inside the header and drag to draw a text box extending from
margin to margin.
* Use the Drawing toolbar’s “Fill Color” tool to fill your text box.
Light gray for monochrome printers, any other shade for colour
printers.
* Click the “Header and Footer” toolbar’s “Insert AutoText” button.
* Select Header/Footer. You can now begin to customize your header
with standard options; for example Page X of Y.
The second way to customize your headers or footers is with WordArt.
When editing the header or footer:
* Click the Drawing toolbar’s “Insert WordArt” tool to display
WordArt options.
* Select a pattern, type your text, and click OK.
* Size the WordArt drawing so that it fits in the default space
allocated for your header.
You can let the WordArt drawing extend past the default header margin,
but the WordArt image will drift into the body of your document. By
default, the text will wrap around the WordArt object.
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