Organizations who want to successfully take advantage of the opportunities of doing business with India must first understand the complex kaleidoscope of this country and the way Indian people think, act, see, hear and believe. Doing business with India is more than just technology, contracts, quarterly earnings, leadership, customer satisfaction, business value and other jargon. […]
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Email is no more just another way of communication in this Web2.0 generation. Our dependence on robust email has increased significantly, and every time we open our Outlook, it can sometimes remind us how careless we have been in organizing our emails and contacts. When we deal with 100s of email every day, it often
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I was surfing around YouTube and found this TV commercial for the Intellivision from Mattel Electronics – my first ever electronic gadget. I had one of these back in 1984 before I had my first home computer. I loved it at first, but became bored of it because I couldn’t program it and make my
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Congratulations to Chris Mahan (http://chrismahan.blogspot.com/ ) for winning ten bucks – he is August commentator of the month! Don’t spend the money on candy – it will rot your teeth!
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I’m reviewing Amazon.com in this post…… er yes it might seem strange to review a business that almost everyone knows and uses. Having said that, it’s a great reason to review it. By the way. This is NOT a Paid Review!
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Meetingwave.com is a fast-growing networking site that aims to connect business people (predominantly) offline. It helps you arrange meetings in the flesh with people in the areas you’ll be visiting. I found this to be an interesting concept, so I thought I’d review the site for my readers. This is not a paid review! Meetingwave.com
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I Have A Tenuous Link With Bill Gates Because… … I once bought a pizza (although I didn’t eat it) from a Seattle restaurant that Bill Gates frequently used in his teenage years!
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Congratulations to DigitalMind (Jason) from TechieNation.com for winning ten bucks – he is July commentator of the month! Don’t spend all the money at once now!
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I have just launched an opt-in email newsletter which will give you more from SimonStapleton.com. The newsletter isn’t just a re-hash of the same content, but it will be more great news, discussion and advice not available on the website. It’s stuff like this: More personal views on the IT industry from me, Simon Stapleton
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I found this great article on CIO.COM , which discusses ways to raising the awareness of the value you create. I strongly recommend you take a look at it. What I like is the tips are simple and straightforward, and anyone can implement them – you don’t have to be top brass. And they’re fun!
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Ring-tone… A few years ago when cellphones had taken off commercially I turned up at my friends place and the door was answered by his wife – my friend had gone out. She said I should wait, so I followed her into the kitchen where she started to pick up the body of a wired
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It’s so easy to be alerted to new articles on this website every day by Subscribing to my RSS Feed. It’s simple, and you can use your favorite RSS reader by adding the feed address below or simply view it using the Free RSS viewer with Feedburner – just click on the link! What’s more I’ll be giving
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I’ve added a Leaderboard for on the far right sidebar to show the most active commentators. And I will be giving $10 USD to the top ranked commentator on the first day of each month! I’ve done this to encourage commenting. Why? Commenting adds to the quality and richness of this site’s content as comments
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I’ve been fishing around the IT community for a couple of months to understand the general attitude towards ‘green IT’. I received quite a mixed bag of results so I thought I’d share them with you. Firstly some stats. I’ve spoken with 98 people, mostly from IT ops, specifically about the issue: Only 12 of
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Here is a really simple test to find out if you’re a somebody or nobody 🙂 Open Google.comand type your name inside “quotes” (e.g. “Simon Stapleton”) into the Search Box. ClickGoogle Search. Look at the results. OK yes, that is REALLY simple. But did the results surprise you? Are there pages that mention your name and
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The big benefits of being freelance is that you generally decide what work you take on, and when you take it on, and there are considerable financial benefits in the short term. IT freelancing is lucrative, compared with permanent positions: income can be three times or more! The trouble with freelancing though is that reaping
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Example: With a worldwide energy crisis in full effect, IT is coming under pressure to be more socially responsible: what is your response ? The $64,000 question is how responsible you feel towards the social implications of energy consumption? Do you care if data centers are burning more energy in a day than a town
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The title references a post on the CIO.COM website back in May this year. The article in question is called ‘Six Secrets of Top-Notch Business Analysts’ written by Thomas Wailgum. I’m looking at this specifically to basically challenge why the six behaviors described in the article are referred to as ‘secrets’. To me, they look
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Let’s face it, my site looked crap until yesterday. Dull, boring, and grey! Well after some great feedback from Paul Piotrowski’s blog InspiredMoneyMaker.com (you can see the review of my blog here ) I made the changes I’d been thinking about for ages and JFDI’d them. So I’ve now got a new theme and a
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How many of the ‘White Papers’ (technical white papers) do you read are quality, informative items, and how many are just marketing crap? In my early career, I found White Papers to be an effective, informative and free way of learning about technology. I used to read a lot of them. Back then (I’m talking
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