The subtitle reads "Turn adversity into advantage in business and life." This succinctly covers the purpose and aim of the book: to help the reader adapt and overcome to succeed in life.
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General Tips
Tips on tech support, adminstration and other topics which don’t fit into other categories.
Book Review – “Obstacles Welcome” by Ralph de la Vega
The Importance of Giving Back
Within the social media community it's often spoken of to give value to "The Community." This refers to adding value to the on line social community(ies) one belongs to. While this is very important, I want us to reflect on giving back to "Our Community," namely the community where we live. Our "In Real...
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Marketers: Help Your IT Help You
Errors, glitches, failures and crashes are all very frustrating. This is especially true when you're working on a web site project with your IT Department or other techies. Think about it: you're trying to get the new or updated web site project finished so you can move on to other things and you find...
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3 Steps to Blogging on a Custom Domain
I recently moved this blog off of Blogger. I don't have anything against Blogger, in fact I have another blog which I maintain on that service. For this blog I wanted to try some different things and host it on its own domain. Since moving it, I've had some questions about how I did...
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Four Steps to Better Passwords
Many people glaze over when the subject of passwords comes up. I think it's because us IT folks tend to make things seem a lot more complicated than need be. Here are 4 easy steps to help you create better passwords to protect your personal information.
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Demystifying Change Management
Sometimes, IT people will mention “Change Management” when discussing deadlines and schedules relating to the IT part of web site deployment. To some, this can conjure up visions of “Mordac the Preventer of Information Services” from the Dilbert comics. It’s really not like that.
Wikipedia informs us that “The objective of Change Management in this...
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Are You Showing Your True Value?
It's no secret that times are tough in today's corporate environments. It's more important than ever to demonstrate your worth to your employer to help keep you off the block if any cuts are made. One way to do this very well is by doing something we all should have learned in kindergarten: Play...
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