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Many websites, particularly media sites, now require registration, usually to gather demographic data about users. If for any reason you don’t want to register but still want to view the site, go to Content: Online Resource | Source: bugmenot.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Productivity / Work Tips

Robert’s Rules of Order is a fine way to run a formal meeting or a town hall vote, but much too stuffy for a business meeting where the agenda is to build consensus behind decisions. This is a freely available excerpt from the 1999 book, The Consensus Building Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Reaching Agreement, by Lawrence Susskind, Sarah McKearnan, and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, and posted … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, Sarah McKearnan | Source: Susskind | Subjects: Management, Productivity / Work Tips

Consultant and facilitator Mina delivers a comprehensive, one-stop reference to planning, launching and guiding business meetings. The two-part presentation covers the dynamics and key elements of effective team-based decision-making and the components and process of successful meetings.

Content: Book | Author: Eli Mina | Subjects: Management, Productivity / Work Tips

With a few short changes in strategy, your meetings can become meaningful encounters in which people work hard, produce outcomes, and leave with a sense of accomplishment.

Content: Article | Author: Joni Daniels | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Productivity / Work Tips

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This may come as no surprise, but at least it’s official: IT companies are the worst offenders when it comes to communicating their corporate message, recording the lowest readability scores and using the most jargon, according to by consultant Deloitte Touche Tomatsu.

To help companies evaluate how clear their communications are, Deloitte has developed a program known as Bullfighter, an add-on for Microsoft Word and … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Deloitte | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Personal Development

Tools for looking up zip codes and related data, including zip codes in a radius, zip codes by county, and occupant and business counts by zip code. Also includes # and average price of home sales by zip, a program to calculate the distance between two zip codes, a lookup for the location of phone numbers or the cities covered by an area code, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Melissa Data | Subjects: Demographics, Free Stuff / Tools

There’s been a lot of discussion here and elsewhere about building good PowerPoint presentations. These discussions miss the point. The difference between a good presentation and a lousy one has nothing to do with slides.

Editor’s Note: see a rebuttal of this opinion at
Content: Article | Author: Michael Fischler | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

A collection of short tips covering a wide range of topics related to using MS Excel.

Content: Online Resource | Source: SolveNET | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

Want to know when new sites in a specific category are indexed with Google? Googlert can be set up to run Google searches and send you URLs of newly-indexed pages by email. Just register on the site, then create up to 5 automatic, formatted searches. It’s that easy. You can run the searches when you visit the site, or the searches can be set to … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Gideon Greenspan | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Reference / Search

This is a fantastic little directory of links to tutorials for computer software. Includes FrontPage, GroupWise (e-mail and calendaring), Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Windows and Macintosh operating systems, Microsoft Publisher, statistical software, Dreamweaver, Lotus 1-2-3, PageMaker, PalmPilot, Pegasus (e-mail), Photoshop, UNIX, and WordPerfect. There are also links to a few other directories and sources of tutorials. From the Department of Training and Documentation … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Indiana State University | Subjects: Productivity / Work Tips, Reference / Search

Marketleap offers a free link popularity tool that can be used both to help you find out who is linking to your site, and to generate a benchmarking report that shows where you stand in comparison to your competitors.

Also of interest at this site is their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 101 tutorial, found at:
Content: Article | Source: Marketleap | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

How does your company stack up against competitors in key financial measures? Which internal processes need improving? With CFO PeerMetrix, it’s easy to find out how your finance function is functioning. Our database of more than 7,000 publicly traded companies lets you compare and contrast with the click of a button. Create custom scorecards, see industry averages, and benchmark crucial gauges including management, working capital, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools

Learn how to write a business letter. Includes information on defining and establishing the purpose, analyzing the audience, detailed format descriptions, common types of business letters, and effective letter-writing principles. From the Writing Center at Colorado State University.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Writing@CSU | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

An Excel spreadsheet is a wonderful tool for “what if” analysis because you can change results throughout the workbook by editing a single cell. A disadvantage to this process, however, is that it isn’t always easy or convenient to restore the original values, especially when you’re changing multiple cells.

Fortunately, Excel offers the Scenario Manager, which allows you to substitute values in a number of cells … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Gregory Harris | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

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Randy Goldsmith and Mahendra Vora praise the site’s large library of articles on crafting and delivering great presentations.

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Content: Online Resource | Source: InFocus Corporation | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

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Templates, tutorials, links, and “power tips” illustrated in sample presentations.

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“Geared toward the power user,” says Karina Shaver.

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Content: Online Resource | Source: PresentationPro Inc. | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

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Tutorials, links, sound files, clip art, and tips on everything from room arrangements to effective closings.

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You want cutting-edge content. Some articles date back four years.

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A great site for newbies, Rosenberg says: “Very welcoming, not the least bit intimidating.”

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Content: Online Resource | Source: Epson America Inc. | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Website Estates is an online community for marketing and communications professionals seeking insight, resources and guidance on topics including presentations, sales and marketing and ebusiness. The site includes free PowerPoint Template downloads.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Website Estates | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Productivity / Work Tips

Here are 208 PowerPoint template kits for your use, no strings attached! Each set contains 8 templates. They can be downloaded as sets or individually. Also check out the Tutorials section of the site for a PowerPoint FAQ, presentation tips, and more (probably more useful than the templates).

Content: Online Resource | Author: Sonia Coleman | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips