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Flash: Coming to a Living Room Near You
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Does Hulu Hurt Big Media?
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, CBS Interactive CEO Quincy Smith shares his thoughts about the free online video service Hulu and ...
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Why Is There Resistance to Enterprise 2.0?
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Dan Keldsen and Carl Frappaolo, co-founders of Information Architected, offer their insights into why some companies ...
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Is Email Dead?
At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Labs and author of "The Facebook Era," explains how social web ...
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The Power of Touch in the Workplace
The right kind of touch at the right time can enhance your credibility and increase your communication impact. Carol Kinsey Goman, author of "The ...
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Craiglist Founder: Why Large Companies are Dysfunctional
Craig Newmark tells entrepreneurs what they can learn from his experience as founder of Craigslist. He also discusses his role at the company as ...
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How to Create a Relevant Small Business
Michael Gerber, best-selling author of 'The E-Myth' talks about the secret ingredients to small business success. He says there are two important questions to ...
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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from McDonald's Founder, Ray Kroc
Michael Gerber, best-selling author of 'The E-Myth' talks about the secret to McDonald's success over the years. He says the company's founder Ray Kroc ...
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Facebook COO Sees Economic Models Changing on the Web
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about the how the Web usage patterns are shifting from an ...
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How to Ace a Job Interview | The Body Language of Business
Even the tiniest gesture can say a lot about you. Carol Kinsey Goman, author of The Nonverbal Advantage, explains how to use body language ...
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Unlocking the Millennial Market
At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford, business executives discuss how Generation Y currently interacts with technologies. They also talk about different ways businesses can ...
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Doing Business on Facebook: What Are the Risks?
At the Always On Summit at Stanford University, business executives discuss the risks involved in developing applications and businesses on social networks with proprietary ...
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Why Aren't There More Female Leaders in Technology?
At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, an innovation panel discusses ways to encourage women to join the computer industry. Many women come to ...
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Making Innovation Recession-Proof
At the Always On Summit at Stanford University, business executives discuss how to keep your company innovative during lean times. A strong business will ...
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Freemium: The First Business Model of the 21st Century
At the Revenue Bootcamp Conference in Mountain View, Calif., Chris Anderson, author of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price," discusses how different companies ...
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Beyond Google AdSense: Monetizing Smaller Web Sites
How can small companies and start-ups earn money from their Web sites? At the Revenue Bootcamp Conference in Mountain View, Calif., panelists discuss pay-per-click ...
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Guy Kawasaki: What Makes Innovation?
At Cisco Live in San Francisco, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki, author of "Reality Check," talks about the four qualities of innovation that he ...
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'Woo' Factor: Persuasion and Power
How do you convince people to buy into your latest idea? "The Art of Woo" author and Wharton School professor Richard Shell shares his ...
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Deborah Meaden: Why Business Needs to Go Back to Basics
Business neednt be complicated, says serial entrepreneur and Dragons Den investor Deborah Meaden. Drawing on her new book, Common Sense Rules, she talks to ...
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Crowdsourcing: the Rise of Competitive Collaboration
Crowdsourcingcommunity-driven online creationis encouraging businesses to behave more like online gamers, simultaneously competing and collaborating. But there are some rules for companies that want ...
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Is Email Dead?
At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Labs and author of "The Facebook Era," explains how social web platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, are impacting businesses. She says email is slowly being replaced by social networking applications -- a shift driven by young people.
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Craiglist Founder: Why Large Companies are Dysfunctional
Craig Newmark tells entrepreneurs what they can learn from his experience as founder of Craigslist. He also discusses his role at the company as a customer service representative and how it keeps him plugged in to the health of the business. Newmark spoke at the BizTechDay conference in San Francisco.
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The Power of Touch in the Workplace
The right kind of touch at the right time can enhance your credibility and increase your communication impact. Carol Kinsey Goman, author of "The Nonverbal Advantage: Secrets and Science of Body Language at Work," offers several tips for using touch appropriately and effectively in a business setting.
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How to Create a Relevant Small Business
Michael Gerber, best-selling author of 'The E-Myth' talks about the secret ingredients to small business success. He says there are two important questions to ask when starting out, is the business scalable and is the business transformational.
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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from McDonald's Founder, Ray Kroc
Michael Gerber, best-selling author of 'The E-Myth' talks about the secret to McDonald's success over the years. He says the company's founder Ray Kroc was able to create the a masterful business system that made it easy for the restaurant chain to grow.
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How to Ace a Job Interview | The Body Language of Business
Even the tiniest gesture can say a lot about you. Carol Kinsey Goman, author of The Nonverbal Advantage, explains how to use body language to make a positive first impression at your next job interview.
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Calling a Bully a Bully
Every office has one - loud, rude, egotistical, two-faced, and sometimes even dangerous. Left to their own devices, an office bully can turn your livelihood into a living nightmare. Carrie Clark, co-founder of the California Healthy Workplace Advocates, who promotes anti-bullying policy throughout the country, defines what qualifies as bullying and how to stand up to a growing problem that she describes as a national "epidemic".
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Desk Pilates: Complete Workout
Exercise without leaving your desk. Pilates instructor Eleanor Gomez demonstrates a simple workout that will help prevent repetitive strain injury, strengthen your spine, and make sitting, working, and playing more comfortable.
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How to Become an Intrapreneur
Intrapra-who? Put simply, an intrapreneur acts as an entrepreneur within a company; using the organizations resources to create and maintain new projects, ventures, or departments. Executive consultant, Carolyn Davis, defines the characteristics of an intrapreneur and suggests ways for companies to create an intrapreneurial culture. For more on becoming an intrapreneur, see out BNET feature package Unleash Your Inner Intrapreneur.
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Guy Kawasaki: What Makes Innovation?
At Cisco Live in San Francisco, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki, author of "Reality Check," talks about the four qualities of innovation that he believes all successful products need. They are: deep, intelligent, complete, and elegant.
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Playing Positive Office Politics
Does a sudden chill creep up your spine when you hear the words Office Politics? Is there a Spy, a Bully, a Gatekeeper, or a Buck-passer dragging you down in your office? It doesnt have to be that way! Business coach, Starla Sireno provides some practical tips for keeping office politics positive in your working environment.
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Flash: Coming to a Living Room Near You
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the company's Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. Lynch says Adobe is working with chip vendors and TV manufacturers on a variety of different television platforms to bring more interactivity to the living room.
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Does Hulu Hurt Big Media?
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, CBS Interactive CEO Quincy Smith shares his thoughts about the free online video service Hulu and why the media company has been reluctant to join the platform. Smith believes the company needs to continue focusing on its core content, making sure its programs get seen, paid for, and counted. (Disclosure: BNET is published by CBS Interactive, a unit of CBS.)
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Facebook COO Sees Economic Models Changing on the Web
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about the how the Web usage patterns are shifting from an information model to a more social model, which benefits Facebook rather than Google. In the future, she adds, more Web users will glean referral information from friends rather than strangers.
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Doing Business on Facebook: What Are the Risks?
At the Always On Summit at Stanford University, business executives discuss the risks involved in developing applications and businesses on social networks with proprietary platforms. Panelists include Gerry Campbell, CEO of Collecta; Max Ventilla, CEO of Aardvark; Shervin Pishevar, CEO of Social Gaming Network; and moderator Bambi Francisco, CEO of Vator.tv.
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Dress for Business Success
Whether you're an entry-level employee or a manager, how you present yourself can determine your level of success. Stylist Kristen Harper takes us to Barneys New York in San Francisco to show how all levels of employee can dress for success, regardless of budget or time constraints. For more tips on workplace style, read "What to Wear to Work."
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Collaboration: Characteristics of Successful Teams
The success of any business collaboration effort depends on three factors: the people, the technology, and the process. For a collaborative project to be successful, these three factors need to work together easily. A recent research study on collaboration, conducted by BNET and Harris Interactive, shows why some teams are more successful than others. Stephen Howard-Sarin, Vice President of CNETs business sites, shares the findings. For more on dream teams, see our BNET feature package Build a Dream Team.
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Malcolm Gladwell: Meaningful Work through Passion, not Genius
At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink" and the upcoming "Outliers," gives two examples of hard work that later looked like genius. Bill Gates got up at 2am to program as a teenager, while the Beatles played together 1200 times, far more than most bands, before they ever got famous. Success, he believes, is the result of putting your heart and mind into something to create successful, meaningful work.
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Deborah Meaden: Why Business Needs to Go Back to Basics
Business neednt be complicated, says serial entrepreneur and Dragons Den investor Deborah Meaden. Drawing on her new book, Common Sense Rules, she talks to BNET UK about how investors choose which start-ups to back, what traits are common among successful entrepreneurs and why managers in established companies should think more like small business bosses.
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Despair Inc.™: Why Workplace “Communication” Is Overrated
According to leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of The Art of Demotivation, the source of workplace conflict is often misdiagnosed. Whats seen as a simple misunderstanding or failure to communicate really runs much deeper: Your coworkers dont actually like you. Kersten helps clarify the situation by translating what theyre really saying.
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