Category: Small Business
Better calendars & tasks: 6 tips, 3 shortcuts
Microsoft Outlook does much more than you think. It can boost your productivity ... help you manage your workload ... even help you stay focused on your most important appointments, tasks and projects. Here are 6 ...
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Must-know travel sites
Four web destinations to help you navigate terminals, master baggage claim, compare taxi and car fares, and have your itinerary always at your fingertips.
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Improve writing by ‘unsmothering’ verbs
Are you “smothering” perfectly good verbs? Example: You turn “decide” into a noun, making it “decision.” Then you need to use “decision” as a verb, so you write, “make a decision”—forgetting that you could simply use “decide.”
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Improve writing by ‘unsmothering’ verbs
Are you “smothering” perfectly good verbs? Example: You turn “decide” into a noun, making it “decision.” Then you need to use “decision” as a verb, so you write, “make a decision”—forgetting that you could simply use “decide.”
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IRS reveals list of ‘dirty dozen’ tax scams
The IRS has released its annual list of “dirty dozen” tax scams. (IRS News Release 2012-23) The list for 2012 contains few surprises. Nevertheless, taxpayers should remain vigilant. Here’s a quick rundown.
Secret to winning: Forming alliances
In what may become a unifying theory of human behavior, biologist E.O. Wilson is positing a theory that “individual selection,” or competition to thrive and pass along one’s genes, inevitably loses out to “group selection.” Forming alliances ...
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In addition to giving job-specific tests, the best way to tell if applicants carry the skills to perform specific tasks is to ask very direct questions about how they’ve used each skill in the past. Here are ...
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Business Management Daily offers free FMLA forms to help organizations comply with the act
Business Management Daily’s 'FMLA Forms: 7 forms to help organizations comply with the FMLA' will help organizations and their HR pros adhere to the FMLA. Business Management Daily is offering this resource FREE for a limited time to ...
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Business Management Daily offers free FMLA forms to help organizations comply with law
Business Management Daily’s 'FMLA Forms: 7 forms to help organizations comply with the FMLA' will help organizations and their HR pros adhere to the FMLA. Business Management Daily is offering this resource FREE for a limited time to ...
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SharePoint Document Workspaces
Are you using SharePoint 2007 or 2010 as a glorified file server? There are many opportunities to make SharePoint do some heavy lifting beyond just keeping your files organized. One such opportunity is the actual creation of a complex document ...
- document management | microsoft | productivity | sharepoint | The Office Tech Pro
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