31st March 2006
Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam
Anyone serious about having a website needs to know something about HTML, the computer code of websites.
HTML is a simple language - although some native speakers would argue that so is Swahili - it is made up of charact...
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20th February 2006
Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam
As small business grows, it accumulates forms, lists, procedures and other resources which become the backbone of the company's functioning. Over time, these important documents become scattered and soon people begin asking...
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20th February 2006
Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam
Have you ever wanted to whip out the ol' Ouzi and teach a few dick-wipes a well deserved lesson? I know I have. In business, as in the rest of life, sometimes folks do things which display such abysmal stupidity or malice t...
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01st February 2006
Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam
Every year, usually in January, we (Builders Architectural - a top Chicago-based window contractor) receive phone calls from customers who complain of sudden condensation on their windows.
This condensation can be surpri...
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01st February 2006
Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam
Every time you open your browser, it automatically opens to a particular web page. This is called your home page. You can change your home page so that you see what you want to see when your browser opens.
In future arti...
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14th January 2006
Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam
The advent of email has created a new environment for human interaction which is simultaneously more and less personal, but much less private. Above all, it is unforgiving. Once you click the "send" button, it is as irretri...
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05th January 2006
Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam
A conversation with my son Matt confirmed my suspicion. The Google AdSense ads I recently installed on my website www.poingo.com are actually giving me an insight into what the Google search engine spider cherry-picks from ...
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13th December 2005
Copyright 2005 Mark Meshulam
A fundamental challenge of small business can be summarized as "too many tasks, too few people."
Unlike large enterprises which can have whole teams devoted to limited tasks - think "Task force for the unification of sta...
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18th November 2005
Copyright 2005 Mark Meshulam
Most web-marketing experts tout the power of articles for their ability to create inbound links and enhanced credibility for websites. But what they don't tell you is... how the heck do you write an article?
You need two...
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22nd October 2005
Copyright 2005 Poingo.com
Most projects are composed of multiple steps, and often these steps are performed by more than one person. In the art/science of scheduling for project management, these steps are called activities.
When an activity is comp...
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14th October 2005
Copyright 2005 Poingo.com
One of the great features of working with the web is the ability to download a file by clicking on a link. As most earthlings know, a link is most frequently visible as blue underlined text displayed on a website, or on an HTM...
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10th October 2005
Paying for expertise is an inherent part of business. How else can we make the best decisions in specialty areas without informed help?
Unfortunately there can be conflicts of interest on the part of your expert which can be subtle yet extremely powerf...
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10th October 2005
There are times in every company when people "butt heads" with each other whether subtly or overtly. These conflicts, if persistent, can become detrimental to the business and should be addressed if possible.
If you are a manager or co-worker of the co...
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10th October 2005
Definition: talk idly or casually in a friendly way
Value: priceless
Gearheads like me have trouble understanding that great ideas and hard work aren't enough... you gotta shmooze too. Every day we deal with peculiar life forms called "humans", and th...
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10th October 2005
Have you ever...
Spent tedious minutes clicking through layers of folders to arrive at the file you are looking for?
Had your screen so filled with windows that you couldn't find the icon you need to launch a new program?
Needed to easily grab a ...
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