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Employee or Entrepreneur? The Pros and Cons of Self-Employment
in BootStrapMe, on July 12, 2009
J.D. at Get Rich Slowly recently took an interesting look at the pros and cons of self-employment. His perspective is especially interesting because his blog is not about bootstraping - or any other kind of entrepreneurship. It's just about personal finance... Although I tend toward entrepre...
已经确认 Windows 7 RTM 于本月 13 日完成
in Wangtam, on July 5, 2009
...tore at Clarendon's Market Common
• Employee Shot at Arlington Apple Store
• Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce Vendors Left Hanging
• Free Criticism, Science After Data, and Airport Books ...
Employee Compensation Case Law
in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009
... China Law Blog had a case study (of sorts) this past week on employee compensation. The article looked at an employee claim for pregnancy leave that was filed after they'd been laid off.
The ...
Supply chain video: The result of a new survey among 900 U.S. supply chain executives on this year's trends
in Supplychainer, on June 28, 2009
...sights about the cost increases: As an example more than 65% of the companies mentioned they expect employee and energy cost to increase this year. This is mainly because of increase in the healthcare...
Crowdsourcing
in Web 2.0, on June 7, 2009
... Wikipedia defines crowdsourcing as "the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or commun...
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
... have a way to go." From a functionality standpoint, I'm not sure this is strictly true. I think it's more of a philosophical issue... Gmail is simpler and less capable than Exchange, jus... ...ovides much of the motivation for recent migrations, and cost savings of between $400 and $1200 per employee versus internally hosted Exchange mail looks pretty good to cash-strapped CIOs (it remains ...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...is working out how to keep your staff motivated and engaged. That's particularly hard at a time like this when money is scarce. It's a point examined in this piece here . Still, while the pie... ... As I point out in my piece here , smart companies are putting in new reward systems, that include employees scoring points to cash in later on, or giving them special jobs or more flexibility. The ...
The 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China is Making China Visas Hard to Get
in Global Mobility Report, on May 10, 2009
...to China, the solution is usually to legitimately set up your own company so you can get a Z visa (employee). Three, and probably most important, is that the Chinese government will nearly always plac...
IT-740 Staff Badge: World’s thinnest hybrid active RFID Tag
in The RFID Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...ge . This RFID Badge is so thin that it's almost impossible to differentiate it from a standard employee badge. Despite being thin Staff Badge is high on battery life and certainty based location ...
Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder
in Wangtam, on May 3, 2009
... about thunder
• White House Photos - Does the Public Need a License to Use?
• The Latest On ShoeMoney's AdWords Lawsuit Against A Google Employee
• Top 10 Battery Hacks, Tips, And Tricks
•... ...• Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder
• Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app
• SKOUT - Matches | location-based mobile dating
• Glearch: 3x the global search
• Malari... ... Top 10 Battery Hacks, Tips, And Tricks
• Is RSS Reading Dead?
• 29 Twitter Apps for the iPhone Compared
• The 100 Million Views Club: The Most Watched Viral Videos of All-Time? ...
Driving With the World's First Computer-based Rally Navigator
in Classical Drives, on April 20, 2009
...in North America. Precise navigation was crucial even though the route between checkpoints was more like a bobsled run. Keeping us "on the road" was my job. Arriving at the checkpoints withi... ....
I wish I could remember his name but I can't. All I can recall is that this quiet-spoken IBM employee had designed a device that would be superior to the Halda calculators and Swiss watches our...
Will COBRA Bite Your Business?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 18, 2009
... Act) is a Reagan Era law that, "among other things, mandates an insurance program giving some employees the ability to continue health insurance coverage after leaving employment," accordin...
Understanding (and Maybe Avoiding) the Peter Principle
in Bizinformer, on April 15, 2009
... management positions to try to limit the operational damage they can inflict on their companies. I think it has become a common, though bass ackwards approach to management...
© SegFault
... ...ith the Peter Principle, and if they could tell me what it meant. The standard answer was something like, " Ahmmm, yeah. That's the one about how if you do a good job they promote you, and th... ...espite their glowing recommendations and excellent resume. And most managers have promoted a loyal employee with 20 years of experience to a new job in the company where they didn't do that well....
Palm Pre Release Date Looms Near
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 14, 2009
...from my device (iPhone 3G not withstanding). This might just change on May 17th. Yes, it is looking like the Palm Pre might just be hitting the streets on the 17th of May.
According to internal docu... ...st be hitting the streets on the 17th of May.
According to internal documents leaked from Sprint, employees are expected to be there for May 17th (and June 29th as a backup) in order to handle a &qu...
ShoeMoney 起诉 Google 违反 AdWords 条款
in Wangtam, on April 11, 2009
Shoemoney 商标所有者、 营销大师 Jeremy Schoemaker 起诉一位 Google 员工 ，称该 Google 员工侵犯了自己的商标权并违反了 Google 广告服务条款。
在 Google AdWords 投放关键字广告能够领先竞争对手，并且 Google 有保护公司免于在广告中商标名称被滥用的对策（比如，不能在苹果的广告中提供其他网站链接）。但是， Google AdWords 过滤工具也有失误，而 Google 员工可能是致使该失误的罪魁祸首。
Schoemaker 注册了 Shoemoney.com 商标，并以此树立了自己营销大师的形象。 Schoema...
Hard Questions for a Business Leader
in TJ's Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...iness owner/manager needs to consider in the current economic climate. and they all have to do with employee relations. Your employees need you most when times are tough. Know how to talk to them-whet...
Twitter红人玉照大曝光 我们一起来面瘫
in Wangtam, on April 9, 2009
...EO Eric Schmidt's Q&A at NAA
• Amazon.com: Don't blame us for Twitter problems
• BumpTop
• Sosius
• TileStack.com - Your Creative Playground
• Top of The Tubes
• Connect & ...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...he government somehow get back that money, contract or no contract. If the Wall Streeters don't like it, fine. Let them sue. How satisfying that would be, and how irresponsible. If the contracts a... ...x on bonuses. Instead, the plan is to give Geithner and financial regulators the power to decide if employee compensation was "unreasonable" or "excessive", and stop it happening. ...
Will Employee Micro-Blogging Help Business?
in Bizinformer, on January 26, 2009
...e when a company officially signs up to use Yammer - and at that point they start paying a buck per employee each month.
Yammer won $50K from a TechCrunch competition last year.
Photo courtesy...
The big accounting issues for 2009
in Sox First, on January 16, 2009
... the impact of stock prices on cash for companies. Tax benefits associated with the exercise of employee stock options have been a significant source of cash for some companies. But when the compa...
Verizon Takes Over Alltel
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 12, 2009
...Alltel debt.
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said it would take a year after closing the sale to assess employee retention. It will keep all Alltel employees below the executive level as the company deter...
The relational company
in Sox First, on January 5, 2009
...lvement, shares could be only be bought and sold at a defined period. Furthermore, the highest paid employees, including directors, could not be paid remuneration greater than 10 times that paid to th...
Voice recognition: Is it now mature enough?
in Supplychainer, on December 28, 2008
...hings."
However, I have seen this technology in action and even though it seems very cool, I think it still needs some time to get more mature: As an example in the environment with a lot of no... ...onsultant company explains:
"The speaker is tied specifically to the voice of the user. The employee is given 100 items to pick, for example, and told where they are. When he picks an item up ...
Looking for a Raise in 2009? Don't Hold Your Breath...
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on December 22, 2008
...ccording to the survey, about half of all US companies have already decided to alter heir plans for employee raises in 2009. Another 25% are considering such changes. At those companies, salary hikes ...
SEC: porn, conflicts of interest and private businesses
in Sox First, on December 20, 2008
... (OIG) report reveals there are serious issues inside the SEC. The report details instances of SEC employees trying to access porn websites on SEC computers. "The OIG completed three investigati...
Fixing broken boards
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
.... Any rights to shares or the grant of share options would be given to all employees. To those who think this sounds prescriptive and too radical, we might be heading in this direction. Writing in T... ...lvement, shares could be only be bought and sold at a defined period. Furthermore, the highest paid employees, including directors, could not be paid remuneration greater than 10
times that paid to th...
Are We Going to Start Paying the Crowd?
in Web 2.0, on December 8, 2008
... Crowdsourcing : the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. Put in...
Another KBR scandal
in Sox First, on December 5, 2008
...he KBR scandals just don't stop. One year after the company was implicated in the rape of KBR employee employee Jamie Leigh Jones , it's been hit with a new lawsuit from another former empl...
Trump and the real estate slump
in Sox First, on December 4, 2008
...y, and his golf course and luxury home complex in Scotland going nowhere. On top of that, a former employee of his LA golf club is suing him for labor violations. And the Financial Times reports ...
Staying Upbeat in During Tough Times
in Home Based Business, on November 10, 2008
...st filled with nothing but doom and gloom, it's hard to not feel worried and anxious. It seems like job security, whether you are an employee or self employed, is a thing of the past. While many ... ...loom, it's hard to not feel worried and anxious. It seems like job security, whether you are an employee or self employed, is a thing of the past. While many businesses are being forced to cut bac...
30 FireFox Add Ons to do just about anything
in Wangtam, on November 8, 2008
...oody or Not | How's your mood today?
• TwitterThings: 6 Unusual Entities That Tweet
• Ballmer rules out new bid for Yahoo ...
Most Efficient & Effective Worker Bees
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 14, 2008
...mpanies .
Topping the list was CONOCOPHILLIPS at over $500,000 profit per employee. That seems like a ton, but according to her article, the whole oil industry averages over $300,000 per employee... ...e a couple weeks back that I've been meaning to point out. It's a comparison of profit per employee at large companies .
Topping the list was CONOCOPHILLIPS at over $500,000 profit per e...
Forrester Research: A Fast-Growing Mobile Workforce
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...gginbotham . "Investing in products to make workers more productive and keep data secure seems like a win-win."
"This dramatic growth of mobile workers, whatever the definition, over ... ...ay - and will account for 34% of workers in four years.
"Overall, Forrester estimates 73% of employees will be mobile in some form by 2012," writes InformationWeek's Marin Perez . &qu...
Something Else to Blame on Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 5, 2008
...With outsourcing being one of the poster-children for the cause of job loss, inflammatory headlines like this will get noticed. However, SF Gate should know enough to ensure that the assertion is back... ...s" at Verizon Communications, Inc., the article describes a "typical" case, where an employee of an outsourcer was found to have used a customer credit card.
What is troubling about th...
Credit crisis: views from the inside
in Sox First, on September 18, 2008
...t about the impact this will have on the lives of the people who have worked at these institutions. Like for example the Lehman banker who told Sky News about the complete sense of helplessness. &qu...
Nintendo is world's most profitable company per capita
in House of Nintendo, on September 17, 2008
...that nintendo is the world's most profitable company per capita, meaning that each Nintendo employee generates more profit than any single employee working for another company. Each Nintendo s...
Positive changes in Vista licensing scheme
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...ss helpful than they might have been. With Microsoft jumping on the bandwagon, other vendors are likely to follow suit, and the door opens to even greater savings from more flexible business environme... ...ndard Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop license. I'll quote them here in their entirety.
· Employee owned machines: Traditionally, computers are purchased as company assets and distributed to ...
Your Best Buy May Be Broken, So Take A Look First
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 2, 2008
...t Buy customer whose TV came out of the box broken :
So, as irritating as that would be, you would think that at least the store would exchange it for an undamaged one, right?
Wrong. When Jennifer t... ...ny times customers have brought there own products home and brought them back damaged saying it was like that in the box. Not one customer has ever confessed to damaging there product. Thats why Best ... ...eplace the item - it's short-term thinking. Bad for the customer, bad for Best Buy.
A Best Buy employee defended the company with this reply:
I have worked for Best Buy for 8 years 6 of them in ...
Data breaches booming
in Sox First, on August 27, 2008
... data. And there is still time left!! Now, 449 is not a lot but it warns that the actual number is likely to be a lot higher because of under-reporting and the fact that some of these reported breach... ...d that 449 US businesses and government agencies have thus far reported lost or stolen customer and employee data. And there is still time left!! Now, 449 is not a lot but it warns that the actual nu...
The economics of SaaS
in The CIO Weblog, on August 19, 2008
...s software providers have been making strenuous efforts to get into the consumer internet business (think Yahoo/Microsoft). Everything that Vembu is saying is true, as far as it goes. But it misses ou... ...the rationale that is driving this market today, shaping the efforts of both upstart SaaS providers like Zoho and established mass-market vendors like Microsoft.
Using available numbers from a range ... ...s a Box... I just made that up)/consumer internet space, Vembu analyzes the revenue and profits per employee to make the case that being in the business software market ain't all that great, even ...
Bootstrapper's hall of fame: Printing with promise
in BootStrapMe, on August 19, 2008
...boasts the ability to print from almost any printing software including Microsoft Publisher and the like.
"I love, love, LOVE Printing for less. Seriously, I use them over our local printers all... ...g only the revenue of his existing printing business, Field used a website designed by an employee to offer his first on line printing services while another worker took orders part-time by phone.
• ...
Are Cell Phones Costing You Business?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on August 18, 2008
...ers, much less a small business owner so that is why it is so important to insure that none of your employees is doing anything than could possible drive away a customer.
The creation of the cell ...
Stressed?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on August 15, 2008
... time out or in other words a break. Now if you run your own retail store and happen to be the only employee this is a little more difficult, but find times to take a break from the business. Maybe ha...
Headcount at Outsourcing Vendors
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 14, 2008
... with the global mega-players (IBM, Accenture and EDS), they are somewhat less productive, on a per-employee basis, than are these very same mega-players.
In part, it is possible that the different m...
Small Businesses Growing?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on August 12, 2008
...Is the number of small businesses with no employees growing?
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Nicolas Loran
The answer to that question is yes. According to the Small Business Trends website...
Check your USB drives at the door
in On Storage, on August 8, 2008
... , and connectivity to the Internet for file transfers.
Case in point: It is just too easy for employees to steal sensitive data as can be seen by the recent incident at the former Countrywide Fin...
Bootstrapping growth in an existing firm
in BootStrapMe, on August 5, 2008
...usiness model. If it doesn't, don't hang on trying to win a clearly lost battle.
Like startups, established companies can often find ways to expand in the most fragile economies simply by usi... ...add new services or products to your existing business simply by changing the way your existing employees do things? Ask the employee who answers the phone in the office to also field product orders f...
Wal-Mart Unionized? In China...
in China Venture News, on August 4, 2008
...acts in Shenzhen:
remuneration for labor
defined working hours
insurance
welfare benefits
employee training
Contracts get renegotiated each December. Employees have to get more than the lo...
Your Domain Name...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on July 26, 2008
...you are the primary contact person. Do not allow your web designer to put in their name or have an employee register it for you. Either one of these could cost you your website and ultimately your bus...
Working at a Colorado Ski Area
in The Flyaway Weblog, on July 22, 2008
...s Copper Mountain, even supply low-cost employee housing. Since winter will be here sooner than you think, it's a good idea to start applying now. Want details/ read my article about Working at a... ...eason working at a Colorado ski resort. Some resorts, such as Copper Mountain, even supply low-cost employee housing. Since winter will be here sooner than you think, it's a good idea to start app...
Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows
in Wangtam, on July 14, 2008
...Service (SaaS) Leader
• Wimbis - Shortened URLs
• 上海徐汇成立信息服务业协会
• Importing/exporting contacts from/to your mail clients (Address Book) - Announcing support for vCards in Zoho Invoice
• Send S... ...ink Popularity in the Web 2.0
• UnmatchList : Resources for builders, developers and designers of the web. A+ List !
• Landscapedia.info - Landscaping Marketplace
• Search for Local Hospitals
•...
SSL version of Facebook upon signing in ...
in Wangtam, on July 13, 2008
... Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom
• 诺基亚网络服务Ovi挑战重重 知名度有待提高
• Mixin: Calendar Sharing with Friends
• Foundcity: Tagging on Online Maps
• Fraced - Simple Social Networking
• DivineCar...
Telecommuting: the employee perspective
in The CIO Weblog, on July 11, 2008
...ich have traditionally been on-call; Blackberries are pervasive across industries today. You are as likely to see your neighborhood accountant checking his as your doctor. Accounting is suddenly an on... ...at as it may, it seemed to me that management frequently got the better part of the bargain in that employees who were previously out of reach after regular working hours were now not only available, ...
The real downside of integration
in The CIO Weblog, on July 7, 2008
...tion suddenly at every executive's fingertips, and their ability to reach out directly to every employee in their company, it's a much more accessible bad habit than it may have been in the pa...
Telecommuting perspectives
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2008
... natural, or fair, that their actual scheduled work time become more flexibly to account for it.
I think Ken's fear is misplaced. I don't doubt that he has had negative experiences with staff... ...but in my experience the balance seems to rest far more on the employer side of the ledger than the employee side... and I think that most recent surveys bear me out in this. Americans spend more time...
Motivating your employees...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 18, 2008
...What motivates your employees?
As a small business every one of your employees is vitally important so keeping them motivated is just as important. This video comes over from Great Britain but the r...
Good Customer Service?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 17, 2008
...This is a very short video but there are two things about it that I like.
At the start of the film you will judge the employee one way but by the end of the film you see something different. Sometim... ... video but there are two things about it that I like.
At the start of the film you will judge the employee one way but by the end of the film you see something different. Sometimes we may jump to co...
Getting an EIN
in Home Based Business, on June 9, 2008
...ependent contractors have to deal with? Get an Employee Identification Number or EIN. It works just like a SSN would but is a lot safer. You can get one from the IRS for free and online. Here's ho... ...the W-9 forms and other paperwork freelancers and independent contractors have to deal with? Get an Employee Identification Number or EIN. It works just like a SSN would but is a lot safer. You can ge...
Fox News and bed bugs
in Sox First, on June 5, 2008
...
Bizarre story about a Fox News employee Jane Clark launching legal action claiming she got bedbug bites at work and that she is now suffering from post- traumatic stress disorder. Just how...
Outsourcing Confidence
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 5, 2008
...t in-house services were somehow safer than outsourced services.
Hogwash.
Harmful code is no more likely to be inserted into a program by an outsourcing vendor than it is by a disgruntled employee -... ...s no more likely to be inserted into a program by an outsourcing vendor than it is by a disgruntled employee - yet most IT shops have at least a few disgruntled employees. Furthermore, because of the ...
分享一些Google新闻源
in GSeeker, on May 29, 2008
...道。时效性一般会比别的同类网站要好。
*Search Engine Journal
综合性的搜索业界blog。
*Search Engine Land
搜索业界最令人惊叹的人物Danny Sullivan的blog，关注搜索引擎及搜索营销。Danny Sullivan绝对是大师级的搜索引擎专家，所有搜索引擎的变化他都不会错过，就像一本搜索百科全书。尤其是看过他写的review，你很难再...
Abolish Bank Holidays?
in Wandalust, on May 26, 2008
...or months.
As a freelance and self employed worker my work schedule is flexible but when I was an employee I must say that I would have preferred to ditch the prescribed Bank Holidays and choose when...
SM公司打造帅男组合 SHINee
in YuleGuan, on May 24, 2008
...以多样的音乐，在不同年龄和不同国籍歌迷都受到喜爱的意思。
SHINee 成员小档案(组合成员中文名为官方发布译名)：
...
How To Find a Real Work At Home Job
in Home Based Business, on May 22, 2008
...ide is what kind of work at home position you want. Do you want a job, where you are treated as an employee, have set hours, and don't have to worry about taxes or do you want a business where you...
Rich and poor: the CEO pay disconnect
in Sox First, on May 19, 2008
...enses immediately reduce earnings. If you or anyone like you consumes cash, unless someone upstairs thinks you generate a straight to the bottom line return on the cash expenditure, you are about to b... ...n't a problem when a company is doing well. Everyone is happy. But when the economy hits a bump like it has now, when the market is hitting a bump and stock prices are declining, like it is... ...s, benefits, raises, you name it. It's at risk.All of which is a long winded way of saying that employees live in the corporate cash zone, CEOs and the top few in management live in the equity/lot...
Phil Scolari is the choice for Manchester City - Isn't Sven still there?
in The Soccer Weblog, on May 7, 2008
...placed finish for Manchester City is a wonderful achievement.
If I was Mr Scolari, I would think very carefully about this offer before turning it down and citing press intrusion and family ma... ...ctation on him next season would be at least a European qualification place and that is simply not likely.
... ...nt law is such that it removes the ability of a boss to sack a trusted, hard-working and effective employee merely on a whim.
It is very dangerous for rich investors with no knowledge or understandin...
Cubeless, SABRE Enterprise 2.0 community : interview with Toby Cunningham
in Les Explorers, on April 25, 2008
...of the conversations in the communities is about travel - it includes other subjects that the users think the community might know about. The types of interaction and discussion by the users in each o... ...ith developing technologies and businesses that are outside of the scope of existing business units like Travel Network and Travelocity and and are innovative.
I am the VP of Business Development wit... ...duct that corporations can use to stimulate and capture information that is often hidden within its employee community. We want to make it easy for corporations to implement by making it a hosted serv...
Land Rover Celebrates its 60th! Don't Miss This if You Go Off-Roading
in Classical Drives, on April 25, 2008
... me up to date, I hadn't realised that this year marks the Land Rover 's 60th anniversary. Like most folks who watch movies and adventure travelogues I tend to relate Land Rovers to treks acr... ...-scenes recollections of Land Rover's history with anecdotes from Roger Crathorne. A Land Rover employee for over 45 years, Crathorne was born in April 1947 in Solihull Hospital, a mere mile from ...
