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<title>9 Best Uses For Video Conferences</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What are the best practices for video conferences? Sales meetings are prime examples. According to Computer Link Magazine, a notable firm produced a 3000% percent improvement in the sales-cycle with a Fortune 500 client by utilizing video conferencing on the internet.]]></description>
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<title>Put RSS News Feeds to Work for You</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 09:50:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most misunderstood files, but yet one of the most powerful on the Web, is the RSS feed sometimes known as the RSS news feed, XML feed or web feed. One form of this special XML file is the podcast, but yet many casual and even hi-tech surfers still do not understand that they are using this exciting technology invisibly every day to read news and follow blog sites.]]></description>
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<title>Our Top Ten Tips for Holding Your Audience's Attention During a Meeting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Boring! That's the complaint that tops the list when people talk about meetings. American businesses hold 11 million meetings a year and attendees agree that more than 50% of that time is wasted. Most regular meeting attendees admit to daydreaming (91%), missing meetings (96%), arriving late or leaving early (95%), bringing other work with them (73%) or dozing off (39%). Focusing and maintaining your audience's attention is the challenge of meeting planners the world over. It takes a little extra time and effort to plan a meeting that will hold your audience's attention from start to finish.]]></description>
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<title>Ten Innovative Ideas to Make a Meeting Exciting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The boss walks in your office and casually asks you to increase sales by 20% and he has given you three days to complete the task. You are a little surprised by the request but you gladly accept the assignment. Before he leaves your office he asks you to cut the cost of doing business by 30%. He has kindly given you five days to complete the task. ]]></description>
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<title>10 Things To Consider Before Having A Meeting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In some office cultures, calling a meeting has become the default action when there is need for any type of discussion. Before you invite your colleagues to a meeting, you should take a little time to think about what you want to accomplish. Ask yourself if a meeting is the best way to get the result you desire.]]></description>
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<title>Top Team Communication Tips</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Life at work is often hectic, so hectic in fact that many of  us are not strategic when it comes to communicating with other members of our  team. We worry about impressing clients and customers and don't always consider  that effective communication within an organization gets translated into better  products and more sales.]]></description>
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<title>The Coming of Age of Video Conferencing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:09:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The art of meetings has come a long way.  It started with two people standing face-to-face to talk.  It progressed to people from different place sitting down together in a boardroom to people in different places talking on a conference call at the same time.  The pinnacle - so far - is taking those people in different places in a conference call, and adding video through their computers so they can both see and hear each other.]]></description>
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<title>Top Tips for Today's Email Etiquette</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Email use is a daily fact of life and is an important medium  for today's business communications. The way businesses handle email  communications can enhance or detract from their business image and even hamper  their business relationships with clients and new prospects. In fact, email is  so important, that some businesses rely solely on this medium for routine  communications with customers and prospects. To make sure that you are putting  your best foot forward when it comes to your own email correspondence, consider  following our email etiquette tips to improve your email note's effectiveness.]]></description>
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<title>Going Big With Your Small Business</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:12:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your little business is growing up!  You've  weathered the tough years well and now the time is right to expand.  Your reasons for doing this could be to  increase profits, carve out some time to enjoy your life, or even simply  because you can.  Take care though, as  the path to turn your small business into a big business contains many pitfalls  that could seriously injure, or even kill all of your hard work.]]></description>
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<title>Our Top Ten Team Building Exercises</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:15:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You've recruited the individual members of your team. You've established your goal. You've developed a plan and a timeline. Now the trick is to get all those unique individuals working together toward the same goal. Given the varied personalities, communication skills and personal agendas individual members bring with them to the team, getting your team to work cooperatively can be a challenge. ]]></description>
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<title>7  Tips For The Unofficial Leader In You</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:50:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A leader can take many forms in many different business situations, often when a person isn't even "the Boss". If you find yourself in a group with a deadline with no leader in sight, you may have to be the one to take charge. When this happens, what should you do and NOT do?]]></description>
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<title>How to Make Your Press Release Shine</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:57:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You have some news about your product or company that you want the world to know. How do you issue a press release that will get noticed and more important, get printed? Is this your first time issuing a release and you aren't sure what to put? Have you issued press releases before, but without the results you wanted?]]></description>
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<title>5 Ways to Streamline Your Small Business</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:02:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your ideas and goals for your small business strive to be anything but small. Competition often drives you to build up your company to keep up. Too often, improvements and additions become unmanageable and worse, unprofitable. If you have realized that your business is in danger of collapsing under its own weight, you know there is only one solution. It's time to streamline!]]></description>
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<title>Conference Calling Replacing Face-to-Face Meetings?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Conference calling and web application sharing conference calling are the rage right now and becoming the new technology of choice for many businesses. Businesses who are either focused on going "green" or those who are trying to leverage profit to the bottom-line by saving on travel expenses are flocking to use these services, but can and will conference calling ever actually replace face-to-face meetings?]]></description>
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<title>How To Increase Attendance On Your Next Conference Call</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:58:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You've done everything to get ready, you've got a great message, and you've gotten the word out and are ready to roll. Now the waiting game starts, how many people will actually attend your conference call?]]></description>
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<title>Leveraging the &quot;Green&quot; Factor to Your Bottom-Line</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Going "green" is big business today. Not only is going  "green" an environmentally responsible approach for businesses of all sizes to  take and one that is the current rage, but going "green" can leverage profit  dollars to your bottom-line too.]]></description>
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<title>Top 10 Meeting Ice Breakers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:22:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Getting people comfortable in a group setting before a team meeting can be the best investment of ten to 15 minutes of time that you can make. Ice breakers get creative juices flowing, can increase the exchange of ideas, establish team identity, and create a sense of community.]]></description>
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