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A good password isn’t a password at all. Instead, it’s a system for creating codes that are easy to remember but hard to crack. And by codes we do mean codes, plural, so that someone who finds out one of your passwords won’t know them all. Here’s one methodology to help you generate unguessable-but memorable-gibberish.

Content: Article | Author: Sarah D. Scalet | Source: CSO Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Productivity / Work Tips

There’s a latent productivity in people; they’re just waiting for someone to remind them of their capacity.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips

When you look at your personal and professional life, the most important decisions you will make revolve around how you invest your effort, time, and energy. There are only two things you can do with your time. You can spend your time in activity or productivity. Activities are things that consume minutes and hours and get you no closer to your goals and objectives. Productivity … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

When you look at the productivity vs. activity scale, most of the things on your desk, in your files, and in your mail are activity, not productivity. As a blind person, I am fortunate enough to have people who take volumes of printed material and reduce them to the items that I have determined to be productive. If you can do this in your work … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Information, Productivity / Work Tips

This library of business plans includes entries in the Moot Corp® Competition at the University of Texas. Each business plan was a winner or finalist in the competition. The judges (venture capitalists) selected these plans as representing the best in business strategy and presentation.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Center for Business Planning | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

Two tools frequently used by teams to make decisions are Multivoting and Nominal Group Technique. While idea-generating tools such as Brainstorming produce a list of possible alternatives, Multivoting and Nominal Group Technique help to identify the important or popular items or prioritize the items on a list.

Content: Article | Source: The Balanced Scorecard Institute | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips

Instead of sifting through data-filled spreadsheets, turn on a filter and let the spreadsheet program search for the information you require.

Content: Article | Author: Marie McCooey | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

There are 7 aspects people must deal with when preparing and delivering presentations. An effective speaker learns to deal with all 7 aspects at the same time. Failure to pay attention to all of these aspects can result in an inneffective presentation. Failure to pay attention to too many of these can result in disaster.
1. Speaker
2. Message
3. Audience
4. Channel
5. Feedback
… [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Lenny Laskowski | Source: Presentation-Pointers.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

By incorporating several of the best no-cost keyword suggestion tools into one interface, NicheBOT makes it very easy to explore and discover new, untapped keywords and topics that you can use to drive more traffic to your website. Simply enter a keyword or phrase, such as “internet marketing”, and choose your weapon.

First, get the top 15 related, active keywords from Wordtracker. Then explore the thesaurus … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: NicheBOT | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

It started decades ago as flashes of insight scribbled on loose scraps of paper. Then it morphed into a PowerPoint presentation that distilled years of business wisdom into a handful of easy-to-remember aphorisms. Last year it became a 76-page spiral-bound booklet clad in a plain gray cover. Eventually, Warren Buffett received a copy — and liked it so much that he asked for dozens more … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Bill Swanson | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management

This article demonstrates the advantages of using Excel’s outline feature to summarize data without having to hide the detail data.

Content: Article | Author: Marie McCooey | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Finance, Productivity / Work Tips

UrlTrends provides a visual “Trend Report” on the SEO rankings of your website, and, if you opt for no-cost registration, it will track your rankings over time and enable you to compare them to the rankings of several competitors. With registration, you will be notified by RSS or email whenever there is a search engine ranking change to any of your tracked URLs.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Joel Strellner | Source: urltrends | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

User surveys offer an excellent way to determine the level of satisfaction among employees who rely on IT support services. But to get accurate and useful results, it’s important to develop a clear and simple assessment form. This revamped version of our sample survey offers a mix of easily answered check box questions designed to gauge user satisfaction with regard to both equipment and support. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, IT / Technology / E-Business

Data continuously flows into the modern business, but many managers fail to effectively communicate to the troops what quarterly updates, analyses, and division reports really mean to their work.

Content: Article | Author: Roly Grimshaw | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

BNET has partnered with MyWorkTools.com. MyWorkTools.com accepts submissions of work tools that cover all business areas, including customer service, human resources, sales, training, and business development. MyWorkTools.com also provides experienced professionals with a means to generate income from these tools. Once a tool is accepted, the author receives 15% of any sales of the tool.

The result of this partnership is that BNET has made 8 … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Sources: BNET, MyWorkTools.com | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

Inc.com has more than 100 free tools that are available to Inc.com members. From sample policies and agreements to worksheets and checklists, Inc.com has tools to help you in every area of your business.

Choose from the following categories:
* Doing Business Online
* Financial Management
* Finding Capital
* Hiring and Recruiting
* Managing Employees
* Marketing
* Performance Management
* Personnel Administration
* … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Inc.com | Subject: Free Stuff / Tools

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An MS Excel add-in that enables data visualization by drawing boxes of various sizes based on a spreadsheet with hierarchical data (e.g., one which shows how different divisions of XYZ corp are doing at sprocket, widget, and screw sales).

Content: Online Resource | Sources: Microsoft, raindrop | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips