- What it Takes to Hit #1 in Various Mac App Stores
- Apr 16, 2014
- Erica Sadun tells the story about some of her own "successful" apps and explains why top chart positions in the Mac App Store may disappoint on earnings.
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- The Eight Process Capability Areas of a Training Organization
- Mar 21, 2014
- Find out what practices are associated with the capabilities that, when performed at a very high level, make a training organization great.
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- Enhance Your Pictures in Word 2013
- Mar 19, 2014
- Word 2013 makes it easy for you to add, edit, and enhance pictures in your document. Katherine Murphy shows you how to tweak your images so your illustrations really pop.
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- Whisper Campaigns and Anonymous Attackers: Identifying and Handling Social Media PR Threats
- Mar 12, 2014
- Astroturfing (creating fake or dubiously-supported "grassroots" campaigns) or even direct public attacks can take a toll on you or your organization. This chapter describes some of the threats you may come up against and provides some steps to take to settle the situations without causing more harm.
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- Creating and Sharing Notebooks in OneNote 2013
- Mar 10, 2014
- OneNote 2013 is the note-taking and sharing utility included in Microsoft Office 2013. This article shows you how to create and share OneNote notebooks easily in the cloud so you and your teammates can capture those million dollar ideas wherever you might be in the world.
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- Choosing the Right Social Media for Your Business
- Mar 6, 2014
- Just a few short years ago, businesses were advised to dive head-first into all forms of social media to market their products and brands. But with so many different social media today, the better advice is to focus your company’s social marketing efforts on just a few targeted vehicles. In this article, Michael Miller examines the state of social media marketing today, and explores which specific social media are best for marketing your business.
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- How to Build and Maintain a Support Network—Planning for When You Need Help
- Mar 3, 2014
- Jennifer Bray explains why developing a support network can be critical for women in STEM fields, and shows you how to go about developing a network, even if networking and socializing aren't your strong suit.
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- Marketing with Vine
- Feb 20, 2014
- Vine is the mobile social network that lets people share short (six-second) videos from their smartphones. Major businesses such as Bacardi, Doritos, General Electric, Lowes, and Target are already marketing on Vine. In this article, author Michael Miller shows businesses why Vine is important, and how they can use Vine’s six-second videos to attract and connect with customers.
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- Overcoming Obstacles as a Beginner, a Minority, or a Woman in Computer Science
- Feb 18, 2014
- Allison Collier, a freshman computer science student at Virginia Tech, discusses how to succeed in computer science despite the adversity beginners, minorities and women may experience while pursuing a CS major or minor.
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- Advice for Dealing with Negative Online Comments
- Feb 10, 2014
- Comment sections in many forums seem to showcase the worst of humanity. Unfortunately negative comments tend to be particularly bad toward women in the technology field. Learn the difference between a good and bad comment policy, how to set your own, and strategies to deal with commenters intent on being mean.
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- 15 Tips for Making Business Networking Part of Your Everyday Mindset
- Feb 4, 2014
- Andrea Nierenberg offers 15 tips to make you better at and more comfortable with integrating business networking into your everyday life.
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- After the Conference: Follow-up Conversations and Conflict Avoidance
- Jan 27, 2014
- For whatever reason, speakers at technology conferences sometimes experience negative or argumentative feedback following their presentation. Learn how to prepare for and deal with such feedback in ways that deescalate conflict and retain credibility.
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- The M&A Paradox: Factors of Success and Failure in Mergers and Acquisitions
- Jan 16, 2014
- This chapter introduces the book, A Comprehensive Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions: Managing the Critical Success Factors Across Every Stage of the M&A Process, which covers the critical success factors across every stage of the process, including planning, screening, negotiation, due diligence, transition management structures, post-merger integration, leadership and trust, cultural integration, HR practices, control, monitoring, and more.
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- Components of Decision Analytics
- Jan 13, 2014
- This chapter provides an overview of the techniques used to classify data according to existing categories and clusters.
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- SEO Made Easy: Using Time to Gain Trust
- Jan 13, 2014
- Evan Bailyn outlines of the typical journey a well-managed site takes before it is able to rank for the most difficult keywords.
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- What Is Managerial Analytics?
- Dec 24, 2013
- The authors of Managerial Analytics explain how their book cuts through the confusion and gives you clear definitions of analytics and Big Data, and how you’ll get a look at this newly defined field so you will have a deep understanding of the term.
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- Technology Books for Seniors
- Dec 16, 2013
- Que has published a variety of technology books of interest to older users. In this article, Michael Miller previews these books for seniors — and recommends specific books for specific users.
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- Women Have Something to Say About Technology: Are You Listening?
- Dec 14, 2013
- Despite tech conference organizers’ claims, there are plenty of women speakers willing to address attendees at their events — provided organizers are prepared to improve their speaker recruitment processes. Increase your reach, your diversity, and your visibility by using these techniques to seek out more women speakers.
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- The Risk of the Wrong User Name: How Non-Gendered Nicknames Can Benefit Women
- Dec 12, 2013
- A feminine username can cause problems online, leading many women to question whether to use more masculine nicknames. Thursday Bram guides you through the many things to take into consideration when choosing a username for personal and professional use.
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- The Challenge of Leading Strategic Change
- Dec 6, 2013
- Organizations change only as much or as fast as individuals change. And, to change individual behavior, you must first change the mental maps guiding that behavior.
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