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“A couple of weeks ago, Matt Mullenweg’s business cards broke. The Wordpress blog platform creator’s business card simply reads, ‘1. Go to Google. 2. Type ‘Matt.’ 3. Click ‘I feel lucky.” But when Matt’s Google score tanked, his card was useless for a few days. Thankfully, in the tough world of schmoozing, the Google trick is just one of the… Five ways to make business cards that people keep.”
“A startup can begin with a revolutionary idea but execute dismally. Another startup can begin with a mediocre idea but execute spectacularly. The startup which executes dismally will fail and the one which executes spectacularly will succeed.”
“Don’t have time to read Steven Covey’s book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People? Take a look at our summary articles written by Michael Gray.”
“Short and sweet, the Ribbon and new UI in Microsoft Office 2007 is the ballsiest new feature in the history of computer software. I’ve been using Office 12 for about six months, and not only has it made me more productive, I’m struck by the sheer ambition of the changes in this version. To clarify the point: Microsoft Office is a bigger business than most of us probably realize. Office generated $11.5 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2005, and it’ll exceed that in the current calendar year. But conservatively, you’re talking about a billion dollars a month.”
“Garett Rogers had this blog about ‘Google’s secret IPv6 plans.’ It appears that Google owns a block of IPv6 addresses numbering approximately 7.9 x 10^28 (79 billion billion billion addresses) or 2^96.”
“In my travels, the group that wants to know the most about marketing, and seems to know the most about marketing (except, of course, for marketers) is engineers. Software engineers and programmers, to be specific. Why? I think it’s because online marketing is particularly interesting and often allied with programming techniques. That and the fact that programmers toil long and hard and get bitter pretty quickly when some marketing dork screws up their efforts.”
“Speakers can be their own worst enemies. Here are our expert’s tips on how to make a presentation sing.”
“A few weeks ago I was doing a research project for a nonprofit organization with thirty employees. I struck up a conversation with the full-time IT person while she set me up with an Outlook account, a tedious process that took almost an hour… Later that day, I started wondering how a thirty-person, grant-funded nonprofit can justify employing a full-time IT person. Shouldn’t this valuable salary slot be recaptured and used for a person who serves the organization’s actual mission?”
“Getting Through Customs is an Internet product and training firm for global business travelers… Getting Through Customs’ online database is called Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: Expanded Edition (XE). Kiss Bow: XE is the leading online database for international business travelers…” (Thanks Airbag!)
“Here’s a technique for getting into a relaxed, sometimes even blissful state quickly. I found it in the book, Richard Hittleman’s Yoga. He calls the technique Alternate Nostril Breathing. Here’s how you do it…”
