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23rd June 2006

Is Now the Time to Dump Microsoft and Fire Your IT Manager?

“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?”

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23rd June 2006

How to do business in 60 countries

“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!)

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23rd June 2006

A technique to relax quickly

“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…”

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