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Taking your business onto Twitter is like standing beside Niagara Falls: It's fascinating, but it's also one of the loudest places on earth. Can anyone really hear you, and are you really listening to anyone else? Here are 7 ways to get back to having real conversations online.
Also on tap from before the Fourth: Automating e-mail tasks in Outlook 2010, choosing the perfect to-do manager, and "hacking" a boss who's making you look bad.
If you haven't developed any sort of system for searching through page after page of job listings on the major job search engines, you might be wasting a lot of time and mental energy.
This week is "Independents Week," a celebration of the independent businesses that are the backbone of most local economies. Jennifer Rockne, co-founder and director of American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA), talks about the importance of supporting local companies, the growth of independent business alliances, and the role that local companies play in a recovering economy.
If you want a one-click way to get to files you've recently edited -- or even new files, such as items you just downloaded to your PC -- I have just the thing for you.
If your phone has a decent Web browser, you can take advantage of many of Google Voice's magical features. Here's a quick video that shows you the ropes.
Ricoh's curiously named new service was designed primarily with photos in mind, but it's just as well-suited to storing and sharing documents and other data.
Lawton Ursrey nearly lost his socially responsible, environmentally conscious clothing company when the bulk of its retailers went bankrupt or defaulted on their payments. But Ursrey decided to take matters into his own hands: He laid off employees, slashed operating costs, and started from square one to rebuild his business.
Here's a strange little incompatibility I've run across in Word 2010: When I share documents with people who are still using Word 2007, they report random spaces lost between words.
Watch out -- warning labels might soon come to a cell phone near you.
Before you settle in with your venti mocha for some gloriously free Wi-Fi at Starbucks (or any other public hotspot), be sure you know everything you need to about protecting your PC.
Your Website is just another door into your business with unlimited potential for marketing and sales opportunities. If you get it right the first time, it will save you loads of frustration later. Here are five ways for the non-coder to get a solid business site up and running.
Most companies like to talk about how they listen to their customers. But when it comes down to it, they're not really paying attention. It's like having a suggestion box with a hole in the bottom and a trash can underneath.
It can really pay to improve the way your Recycle Bin works. Here's a tool that makes it easier than ever to zap unwanted files and manage the stuff in your bin.
Task management is a critical part of being effective at work. Comb through our short list of task managers -- there may very well be something here which can boost your productivity.
