Category: Four Tips for Managing Workplace Wikis

Corporate wikis can give some managers the willies.
Wikis – Web sites that allow users to post and edit items easily – can help companies promote knowledge sharing. Read my article about an email-marketer’s wiki for sales reps to ask and answer questions, among other things. Their low cost can make them especially attractive to […]

How easy is it really to find a grant to pay for training at a small company?

When looking for grants, you might pay a visit to your statehouse. Pictured: the Pennsylvania Statehouse rotunda. Photo credit: Flickr/jimbowen0306

As I wrote this Small Business Link story about how small companies can track down government dollars to fund employee […]

At 4 p.m. today, were you still wearing pajamas?
Do you spend office hours picking up laundry, driving friends to the airport or running errands?
Does your workday end two minutes before you drop into bed?
For the home-based business work force, a “yes” to any of these questions is bad news, according to Jeffrey Landers, author of […]

Today the founders of ILiveInspired, who mounted a seven-day walking campaign to get a seven-minute meeting with Oprah Winfrey, are going home. Read our original post and our updates.
They’re leaving without their prize in hand. Oprah hasn’t granted an audience. So the duo is headed back to Washington, D.C., to pursue more conventional outreach methods: […]

As of tonight, the founders of ILiveInspired.com are still in Chicago. And still trying to meet Oprah. Sometimes Chicago hotels can get guests onto waiting lists for audience tickets. So the walking duo sweet-talked a W Hotel concierge into trying for them. But no dice. [They were staying at a friend’s apartment.]
So tonight the pair […]

“Business is filled with examples of people who have the advantage, but who don’t bet enough money. It’s a powerful lesson from blackjack.”
This from an interview today with Jon Hirschtick, founder of an engineering-software company in Concord, Mass. – and the inspiration behind a new Kevin Spacey movie, “21.”
WSJ’s Lee Gomes pressed the card-counter […]

Bellevue, Wash.
ThatÂ’s the best town to launch a business, according to Fortune Small Business. The magazine ranked U.S. towns and cities for its top 100 best spots to “Live and Launch.” Winners combined a nourishing business environment along with alluring leisure offerings. Good for you. Good for recruiting.
Criteria included: economic conditions such as local taxes, […]

The I Live Inspired founders are still at Harpo. (Read the original post and the last update). Their new security-guard pal told them today isn’t looking good for a meeting because of the show’s schedule. But he encouraged them to come back tomorrow. So they’ll be back on the scene early in the morning.
Meantime, they’ve […]

Update: (9:57 a.m.) Entrepreneurs Rob Foster and Chris Deutsch made it into the lobby of security at Oprah’s Harpo headquarters. After standing outside the building since 5:15 a.m. chatting up the mostly female ticket-holders for today’s show and Oprah’s security team, they got a lucky break. Read the original post.

Chris reports that one top security […]

At 4 p.m. today, were you still wearing pajamas?
Do you spend office hours picking up laundry, driving friends to the airport or running errands?
Does your workday end two minutes before you drop into bed?
For the home-based business work force, a “yes” to any of these questions is bad news, according to Jeffrey Landers, author of […]