Archive for April, 2008
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
I was at a talk last week in which the speaker insisted that the biggest error a project manager could make was tracking percent complete. "Don't track percent complete - track estimate to completion" was his advice. Interesting! Arguably this forces more rigorous thinking ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
When I wrote the Dymo Label Printing for Zen Cart contribution I said I'd add support for Firefox when time allowed. Well, I finally got to it last week. If you're a Dymo Labelwriter owner, check it out. And if you aren't, buy one! It's not for nothing that the ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Take a look at what Ian Lure is saying in Conversation Marketing. Although it was written for people in the ad game, most of these points apply to a wide range of small e-businesses. My personal favorite was
Yes, you are worth whatever you charge! Probably more.
The links in the article ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Here's Clifford Stohl explaining why e-commerce will never work back in 1995:
Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping--just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall does ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
What a wonderful voice. And such great subject matter. :)
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Tweet unto others as you would have others tweet unto you.
It is more blessed to follow than to be followed.
These are my rules and I'm sticking to them. The motivation for number two was this article by the irrepressible Robert Scoble.
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The Positivity Blog gives us five reasons to say something nice.
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Here's China's Hu Jintao:
Here's North Korea's Kim Jong Il:
and finally, here's VietNam's own Nguyen Tan Dung
Oh sure, they're murderous sociopaths - but will you look at that hair!
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Got a cart? You need a blog. Heck, I think you should be twittering too, but that's just me.
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I'm a big fan of CaRP from GeckoTribe - I use it to display posts from this blog on That Software Guy's Follow Me page. I just updated to the latest version - sweet!
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