http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam I grew up on North Avenue, a 4-lane street cutting East-West across the middle of Chicago. My folks owned a clothing store there and our family lived upstairs. It was 1961 and I was 9 years old. On each corner was a tave... http://www.articlealley.com/article_40403_24.html 01st April 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_39599_4.html 31st March 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30750_15.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30742_15.html 20th 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_26617_27.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_26492_15.html 01st February 2006 Copyright 2006 Mark Meshulam Much of business involves inducing people to do what we want them to do. Whether it is to sign a proposal, return a call, set up an appointment, provide information or pay a bill, we are constantly nudging. In business, ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_26036_15.html 31st 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_24114_15.html 14th 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 se... http://www.articlealley.com/article_22510_3.html 05th January 2006 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_19440_15.html 13th December 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_16320_3.html 18th November 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 activi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13022_15.html 22nd 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 dis... http://www.articlealley.com/article_12355_45.html 14th 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11885_15.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11884_15.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11883_24.html 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11882_11.html 10th October 2005 It's hard to be impressed anymore. But when I learned of the phenomenal achievements of Tim Berners-Lee, I became not only impressed, but awestruck. Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. And what did you do today? The World ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11881_15.html 10th October 2005 Many among us sail through our lives blissfully ignorant of the reason our web addresses start with the secret code "http//:" Increasingly we think it is superfluous because when we omit entering it into the address line of our browser, usually we arrive ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11879_45.html 10th October 2005 Am I the only one, or does it seem harder and harder to remember things? I remember long ago, somehow I made a barely-conscious decision to purge useless information from my brain. This was probably to make room for newer, more exciting information, su... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11877_24.html 10th October 2005 There seems to be a file size disconnect between pictures routinely snapped by most digital cameras, and the desire of many amateur photographers to share their pics as email attachments or online. Photographically, most of us are using an elephant gun... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11876_11.html 10th October 2005 Anyone who has been confronted with a screenful of overlapping windows can appreciate the need to execute the tasks from the keyboard rather than from the mouse. Our vote for most-needed keyboard shortcut is the one which clears all your open windows t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11875_11.html 10th October 2005 Unless you place your faith in internal search engine software or document databases to track your work, consider a relatively low-tech enhancement to your work methods. I promise it will pay big dividends. Think about how you name your files and folde... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11874_11.html 10th October 2005 It was inevitable that our work files would mushroom to sizes far beyond restrictions imposed by most email services. The reason can be summarized in one word: graphics. Whether you want to send photos, CADD (computer aided drafting & design) files or ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11872_11.html 10th October 2005 Many lack a clear understanding of the clipboard function built into Windows(tm) operating systems. Basically, the clipboard is a temporary storage area where you can save and retrieve data. The most well-known example would be when you drag the cur... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11871_11.html 10th October 2005 Copyright 2005 Poingo.com If you watch closely, you will eventually notice that people who manage the work of others tend to fit into one of two categories: authoritarians or democrats. The authoritarians, as you wou... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11748_15.html 09th October 2005 Ultimately, no matter how high-tech your business tools, development and implementation of new initiatives will depend upon effective, productive communication between real live people. Why do some business meetings result in boredom and lack of focus,... http://www.articlealley.com/article_11745_15.html 08th October 2005