Some of us may be unfortunate enough to have to get harrasing or obscene phonecalls. They can be annoying, or in extreme cases even traumatic, so it is crucial to deal with them in the proper manner.
The Harvard University Police Department some good advice on the matter at hand.

If you receive a call from [...]

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Meetings inescapable in a corporate environment. They can either be long boring nightmares, or they can be very productive groups. Not surprisingly, a lot of it depends on how the meeting is run. Take a look at Businessweek’s interesting article on how Google’s Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president of search products, runs her meetings.

Set a [...]

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Your CV is often the first sight an employer gets of you. Here are ten tips to improve the impression recruiters get of you:

Whatever the layout, a CV should look well designed. Print it with a laser-printed on fresh, good quality paper.
Keep your CV to 2 sides in length, with each side on a fresh [...]

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While the benefits of RSS become immediately obvious to some of us, the general internet population, don’t use it. In many cases, it’s not so much that they haven’t heard about it, it’s that they just don’t really see the point of it all.
The Moleskin has a good set of tips aimed at teaching [...]

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Readers on the internet tend to have a short attention span. How many times have we ourselves just skimmed through a webpage, only to move on to the next one in a blink of an eye?
Writers take note, CopyBlogger has a 5 great points to help you craft that all important first [...]

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Professional bloggers like Darren Rowse reflects here on a few security tips he has for keeping your blog safe from hackers, after his friend just recently got hacked.

Update your Blog Software
Keep an Eye on Dead Blogs
Backup your Blog
Protect Your Passwords
Choose Your Host Carefully

Especially for bloggers like him who write for a living, [...]

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Kathy Sierra of ‘Creating Passionate Users’ has put together this set of tips about how to cut through the noise, and get someone’s attention.
Everything revolves around this golden rule:

“The secret is to be more provocative and interesting than anything else in their environment.”

To pull this off, she gives the following tips:

Be Visual
Be Different–Break Patterns [...]

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If you have to put together an effective and communicative Keynote or PowerPoint presentation for the first time, don’t panic. Follow these simple steps and you’ll wow them in the back rows.

Remember: content is king

Research your topic thoroughly.
Make sure any images you use to illustrate your presentation are appropriate to the point(s) you wish [...]

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Quick Online Tips has a timely reminder: make sure you update your domain contact address in time before someone else grabs it.
I have to admit that I managed to lose a website I’d been running for three years because of this. Events conspired but it was basically my own fault: I happened to be [...]

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I was recently talking to some senior high school students about how you e-mail people in the business community, prospective employers, college professors, etc. The majority of them had no idea how to approach the matter, and those that turned in example e-mails misjudged the tone you should take when writing a formal e-mail.

Things to [...]

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced today that he will step down from his post at some point within the next year. As well as sending the British press into a spin, Blair’s speech reminded me how important it is to resign with dignity.

No matter what your job is, if there comes a time [...]

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Need more visitors to your site, but don’t know where to start? SEOMoz website has come up with a list of 21 tips that will help you do just that.  Here’s a summary of some of the less obvious ones which I found useful.
Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
First and foremost, you’re writing [...]

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If you’re keen on simplistic minimalist weblog design, you might want to check out Plaintxt.org, a website dedicated to, well yes, minimalist WordPress themes.
Although Scott’s designs might not be as fancy or colourful as some of the myriad themes out on le internet, they’re extremely light and fast-loading.
What’s more, they’re also pretty easy [...]

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Although I attend many meetings a week and write stacks of notes I’d be exaggerating if I said I got a lot out of them. The notes, that is, not the meetings!
I am, however, not the only one it seems. Talking to a bunch of teachers at a planning meeting the other I noticed how [...]

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Reliable information is crucial to making a good decision. Learn how to separate the truth from the lies, and you will go a long way in protecting yourself from fraud, or being taken for a ride. Wikihow has a great post about how to tell if someone is lying, and here some of the [...]

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