Training

Advice: Skype 101: A primer…

January 22, 2009

Have you heard of Skype but were afraid to ask about it…? Don’t panic – it’s been a mainstay of voice communications for computer-folks for a long while, but there’s still lots of you (us!) out there who need to be introduced to the concept… one step at a time…

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Advice: Photos 101: Everything you ever needed to know about working with photos.

October 21, 2008

Two of the most fundamental interactions we have with computers and the internet are ‘words’ and ‘images’. By that I mean, mastery of creating and editing text, as well as that of capturing and handling photos.

By all measures, we’re all very well capable of handling the ‘words’ component – yet capturing photos in digital form and handling the resultant images is a rather new skill – and totally new language is required to describe them.

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Advice: Play it again, Sam: 12 ways to organise your music collection.

October 21, 2007

You’re writing about how to organise you music? On a business blog? Yep – you heard it right. As put so eloquently in the movie ‘The Castle’, it’s just, well, ‘the vibe’ of it, really…
It doesn’t matter whether you’re in small business, big business, working from home, or not working at all: music can help [...]

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Advice: The Fine Art of Handing Over

June 21, 2007

As of June 2006, there were almost 2 million businesses in Australia, and almost 2 out of 3 of those are single-person businesses – the solopreneurs, if you like. A proportion of these businesses must be contractors working for a company as a contracted employee, but the vast majority are people like, well, you and me – soloists who have a niche, and are actively making a go of their business…

…but what happens when soloist turns into… soloist, plus one?

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