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[4] Is ACN a Business Opportunity or Scam?

http://www.acnvideos.com

ACN, the worlds largest direct selling telecommunications company, will be featured on an episode of The Celebrity Apprentice, March 22 , 2009.

Ive come to know Greg, Robert, Tony and Mike, the Co-Founders of ACN, very well. They have built a terrific company and their new ACN Video Phone is amazing. I simply cant imagine anyone using this video phone and not loving it. I cant wait to see how our Celebrity Apprentice Teams launch it to the world! stated Donald J. Trump.

The ACN Video Phone will be featured in an episode in which celebrity contestants are tasked with developing a launch event to showcase the new technology. The ACN Video Phone can truly change the way people communicate by allowing them to see the person they are talking to, not just hear their voice on the line; therefore celebrity contestants will be judged on how much energy, excitement and emotional appeal they convey in their unveiling.

The Celebrity Apprentice is an opportunity for ACN like none other. We are excited about having the celebrities unveil our ACN Video Phone to the world. This is a break-through technology that will literally revolutionize the way we communicate and will be in millions of homes in the near future, said ACN President and Co-Founder, Greg Provenzano.

ACN has been in business nearly two decades and operates in 20 countries on three continents. The company offers everyday services including local and long distance calling, Internet and wireless services, satellite TV and home security. In addition, ACN offers digital phone service with video phones the very latest in communications technology that is simple to use and requires a high speed broadband connection. Seeing is believing see for yourself on http://www.myacn.com.

Since 2006, ACN has been endorsed by multi-billionaire and Apprentice executive producer, Donald J. Trump. He has gone on to speak at several ACN International Training Events at which he has praised the companys founders, business model and video phone. A natural progression of this relationship is ACNs appearance on the prime-time reality show.

For more information on ACN, the revolutionary video phone and digital phone service, which can replace traditional phone service, visit http://www.myacn.com, www.acnintegrity.com, or http://www.acnvideos.com.

About ACN, Inc.

Founded in 1993, ACN has become one of the fastest growing companies in the world by providing customers with leading edge services such as digital phone service and video phones as well as providing a better alternative for services they need and use everyday like local and long distance calling, wireless and the Internet, satellite TV and home security. ACN operates in 20 countries with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

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Why business has to make life better – values matter. Corporate ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Motivation, leadership, marketing and management impact. Cause-related marketing and winning war for talent. Conference keynote speaker

http://www.globalchange.com Values really matter. People want to make a difference and feel proud of who they work for. Aditya Birla example of corporate responsibility and community involvement. Increasing motivation, winning war for talent, staff and customer retention and stronger brand and corporate image. Work of AIDS charity ACET as expression of corporate responsibility. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.How to make things happen in Business. Connect with passion, keys to motivation, leadership and change management in business. Managing uncertainty with rapid change. Leadership styles. Why people get out of bed in the morning. How to motivate teams at work to do great things. Business management. Secret of leadership and ultimate leadership speech. Business ethics and values in corporations. Secrets of business success and increased productivity. Cutting costs. Increasing output. Adding shareholder value. Sustainable business success. Work life balance and lessons from non profits / volunteering. Why building a better world is such a powerful motivation. Lecture by Dr Patrick Dixon for MTN, author of Building a Better Business, Futurewise and conference speaker.Motivation at work. Leadership. Leadership purpose, aims, strategy and objectives. Profits and profitability. Motivation to succeed and secrets of business success. Productivity and efficiency key. Workplace morale. Team dynamics and leadership styles. Business mission and vision. Business values and office culture.

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Angelika Blendstrup, Business Communications (Part 1 of 3)

‘You’re Hired!’ television show episode #66: Host Steve Piazzale, Ph.D., Career/Life Coach intereviews Angelika Blendstrup, President of Blendstrup & Associates, regarding her new book “Communicating The American Way”.
Dr. Blendstrup is a Silicon Valley veteran with a unique blend of international executive coaching and education. She. is fluent in 5 languages and has lived in 3 continents. Dr. Blendstrup holds a Ph.D. in Bilingual, Bicultural Education from Stanford University, a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages and Educational Psychology from the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Blendstrup & Associates works with individuals as well as large and small teams offering a variety of training sessions and workshops for Accent Reduction, US Communications Skills, Interview Coaching, and Understanding Cultural Differences.

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angelika.blendstrup@gmail.com
650.906.5542

Helping you get the work you want and deserve. For more information about career coaching please visit:

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You’re Hired! is a production and broadcast of Pacifica Community Television (650-355-8000). PCT broadcasts on local cable channel 26, and streams live at:
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Small and Medium Business Centre – Microsoft Software Products Review

Microsoft offers wide range of software products for small and medium businesses in India. The products are of much importance and useful for all types of businesses. In this article, we take a look at each of the Microsoft Products in detail:

The Products that we discuss here are developer tool products.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 provides a range of tools that offers many benefits for individual developers and software development teams: Be more productive and obtain faster results, build dynamic windows, web, mobile, and office-based solutions, communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams, ensure quality early and often throughout the development process

Visual Studio 2005 provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams:

• Be more productive and obtain faster results
• Build dynamic Windows, Web, mobile, and Office-based solutions
• Communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams
• Ensure quality early and often throughout the development process

Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports JavaScript, Visual C#, Visual Basic, and other languages.

• Deliver media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web that incorporates video, animation, interactivity, and stunning user interfaces.
• Seamless, fast installation for users, thanks to a small, on-demand, easy-to-install plug-in that is under 2 megabytes (MB) in size and works with all leading browsers.
• Consistent experiences between Windows-based and Macintosh computers without any additional installation requirements.
• Create richer, more compelling Web experiences that take greater advantage of the client for increased performance.
• Enhance existing standards/AJAX-based applications with richer graphics and media, and improve their performance and capabilities by using Silverlight.

Currently, there are two runtimes available for users to experience Silverlight content.
Microsoft Silverlight 1.0
Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha September Refresh
Both runtimes support rich media capabilities and enable fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality audio and video to all major browsers including Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer running on the Mac or on Windows. The designer experience remains largely the same for both runtimes as well. The main difference resides in the developer experience. The Silverlight 1.1 Alpha runtime introduces support for.NET languages such as Visual Basic and Visual C#.

GT Kimberly
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/small-and-medium-business-centre-microsoft-software-products-review-694596.html

Proactive Software And The Business Of The Future

The Internet has combined with evolution of corporate data, processes and communications to create the basis for a revolution in corporate organization. Businesses are becoming increasingly modular, doing what they do best and outsourcing the rest. The organization is increasingly turning toward project teams which can be assembled when necessary and dispersed when projects are completed. To facilitate this, procedures and systems are being developed to control and support collaboration. The result? New opportunities for remote workers and virtual offices, with leaner, task focused and ultimately a more efficient organization, essentially unlimited access to resources and personnel around the globe.

The New Office of the Future

At the heart of the new business organization is the virtual business or virtual office. The virtual business can span geographical boundaries and provide instant and flexible collaboration to efficiently develop products and services with minimal supporting overhead. In this “office of the future”, remote workers are linked in a dispersed infrastructure that is supported by software that supports and controls collaboration. Individuals share data and applications over a distance, transmit data of all types easily and efficiently, and the workgroup can meet together to exchange information and views using a variety of different techniques, including videoconferencing, shared whiteboards, teleconferencing, instant messaging, and a variety of asynchronous correspondence and mail capabilities.

Supporting the office of the future is a wide and growing range of collaborative software tools that provide communications, project coordination, data sharing, and application access. The base for this communication is, of course, the Internet, which has been speeding as higher bandwidth technologies are rolled out. These large pipes enhance the opportunities for collaboration.

Always on, anywhere, any time provides the office of the future a number of advantages to both staff and business. To sketch in some of these:

* Any time – flexile working hours, with improved scheduling for business, and more efficient performance from remote workers.

* Any place – flexible work location making it possible to employ people who work at home or in different parts of the country, or even across the globe.

* Any competent task group – flexibility of project staffing, making it possible to make most efficient use of available personnel,

* Wider skill application – particular specialists may contribute to various projects rather than being dedicated to a single operation at one time in one place.

* Amorphous organization – making it possible to create workgroups as needed to handle new projects or new support activities without the upheaval associated with different times and places.

* Scalability and security – incorporating these characteristics in the modular systems and network infrastructure. Modules can be easily grown or combined, and security is integral to both policy and supporting IT infrastructure.

Management Implications

To gain these advantages, the virtual business requires careful planning. Special requirements include:

* A need to keep track of employees’ work, which may not be immediately visible as supervisors may not in the same place or even time zone.

* Need to provide and maintain adequate communications, including sufficient bandwidth for extended communications requirements of collaboration, and special communications tools to support collaborative work without the noise of the communications methods swamping the useful work.

* Tools to support the virtual organization, including communications and management applications. Management requirements are often overlooked, but are the making or the breaking of the virtual organization.

* Implementation of the components of the virtual organization without overspend. This requires careful planning and selection of appropriate systems. There is no one size fits all solution, and whatever infrastructure is working today there will be a need to change and adapted to future both operational requirements and meet today’s budget.

Management is a significant component of this new working environment and helps to bring all of the pieces together. Management tools need to be able to aid in project organization as well as being fitted into the collaboration infrastructure. Coordination applications need to be accessed by all workers on teams and within an organization. Management tools also need to fit organizational budgets and provide sufficient flexibility and scalability to successfully manage projects of varying size and complexity, providing security features to ensure the rules of the collaboration are controlled updated and followed. Distributed infrastructure and application aid collaborations between organisations but bring with them the need to ensure sensitive information can only be accessed by those authorised.

Conclusion

The virtual organization supported by control and collaboration technologies is becoming an increasingly visible phenomenon. As hotter competition forces a higher competitive response on us all it is likely to grow in importance as the performance and cost advantages become increasingly apparent. With lower operational expenses and higher performance on offer few can choose not to consider the option. Management of the virtual organisation is more demanding; it requires effective and accessible support and control tools. ProWorkflow from ProActive Software can help make the virtual organisation a reality for your business.

Brian Dooley And Julian Stone
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/proactive-software-and-the-business-of-the-future-130330.html

Expand your Business Horizons With Pattern Recognition

If you want to see new opportunities for your business and increase your decision-making speed and accuracy, begin by looking outside your own business even outside your industry at trends and patterns that you can apply to your own organization. Ask yourself, How do others do what they do? The fact is that you can learn from observing others companies’ patterns of how to change, and in turn solve problems, make decisions, and grow your business faster than ever before.

A failure to recognize an impending problematic pattern can be just as devastating to a Mom & Pop business as it is to a hospital or NASA or to a CEO career. Enron had a pattern of corporate corruption and failure of personal responsibility. MCI had a pattern of bad investment and then later fraud to cover those bad investments. All of these things were patterns which we can look back on in retrospect, as the books are open for everybody, and from outside industries we can say, It was obvious this was happening. And yet the people inside the industry, the experts, were looking at the same patterns and could not see them. They lacked perspective from the outside, just as we, in our own industries, can fail to have the perspective on ourselves that others may have of us.

So how can you improve your pattern recognition skills to enhance your business? Consider the following:

Look beyond your own niche.

You must be able to pull back your blinders to recognize those patterns that tell you something has changed or is about to change. Within your own company, you may have great pattern recognition and the ability to anticipate what is going to come next, but if you cannot see outside your companys bubble, you may be left in the same situation that IBM was in 1978. They only looked at their own company patterns and did not see the coming of the personal computer. Over at Apple, though, Steve Jobs identified patterns beyond the horizon, hired Bill Gates, and started a new company and a revolution.

If other industries ultimately serve a similar purpose to yours, then even if they seem radically different than yours, their operating patterns may still be applicable. For example, health care has in recent years begun adopting the safety models used in the airline industry. Like doctors and nurses, pilots and air traffic controllers are among the few in their industry who have ultimate responsibility for a large number of lives. Many more support people are responsible for making certain that the pilots are able to do their jobs safely and effectively: the mechanics, the flight attendants, and the gate agents.

When the medical industry identified that it had a problem with safety (too many unfortunate situations were overlapping and people were dying as a result), they looked outside their own industry, to those where the stakes are very high and where a single error, if not caught, could result in not one death but 500. They learned that in the airline industry, everyone-from the lowliest mechanic or carpet sweeper, all the way up to the captain has the authority to say, Stop that plane! if they have reason to believe a safety issue has arisen. Importing this and other patterns gleaned from the airline industry will be a long process for the medical industry but one that will ultimately lead to greater safety and efficiency.

Trust patterns, not data.

If you have been wearing blinders for awhile, you may find it difficult to trust your instincts, even when you have identified patterns within your own business and beyond. Your natural tendency will be to look for data that will back up the pattern you are seeing. If you do this, though, and the data does not support the trend, that does not mean you were wrong in your initial identification of the pattern. Data simply can not predict the future, it can not tell you where your business is headed, only reinforce what you already know about your business’ past. Data can tell you that profits are down or have leveled off, but only pattern recognition can give you a new perspective on your business and help you decide what to do to reverse trends and solve problems.

Use your eyes, then analyze.

Albert Einstein said that the ultimate insanity is to continue to do what you are doing and expect a different result. Perhaps you have identified a pattern that you want to adopt, but you do not want to make significant changes just to make changes, nor do you want to take action with only guesswork to back you up.

First, you must have the ability to recognize what is wrong. When you look at your business financial picture, for example, what do you see? If it is not what you expect, what do you do? Supplement this analysis with the extra patterns you have added to your repertoire in your exploration of other businesses and industries. The perspective you gain from having these extra patterns to reference will give you a twofold gain: 1) With enough patterns, you will be able to see that the financial picture is not right, and 2) you will have a sense of what changes you can implement to make the situation better by borrowing patterns from other industries and adapting them to your situation.

Mimic, then make them your own.

When NASA experienced the space shuttle accidents, the first thing executives did was to look back at where patterns failed. They discovered that a culture of silence had evolved at NASA. So they went outside of their industry and got experts in communications and team building to teach them new patterns that enabled them not just to team build, but also to teach them new patterns they could mimic. The experts enabled NASA to learn what the pattern looks like when a team is beginning to fail and to emulate new, more effective problem-solving patterns. Now they can recognize when the teams begin to fail and communication lines are crossed so the opportunity for absolute disaster is less likely to occur.

When you are making an adopted pattern your own, do not make a deliberate effort to change it around or adapt it to your business. You will find that if you fully internalize a pattern, as it becomes a part of your behavior and thought process, then your brain will automatically take any aspects of the pattern that are not particularly useful to you and set them aside, so that the pattern, though adopted from elsewhere, works for you. At that point, the pattern truly becomes yours; you have broadened your perspective and added additional facets or directions from which you can see still new vantage points.

Rajinder Dogra
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/expand-your-business-horizons-with-pattern-recognition-58631.html

2020 Future seen from 2015: Futurist Mobile World. Consumer Trends:keynote conference speaker

2015 scenario: Future by 2020. http://www.globalchange.com communications, marketing, management, leadership, virtual teams and virtual organisations. Customer focus in product design, advertising, brand development, software and hardware. Mobile marketing and positional advertising trends. Consumer use of personal organisers and mobile devices, mobile phones and other technology. Virtual switchboards, virtual meetings and distance learning. Future bandwidth, video streaming demand, convergence and divergence of technology. Future innovations in communication. Mobile phone strategy for emerging markets and developed markets. Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks using personal organisers. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. All innovation is divergent – doing things different and better. But most companies focus on convergence on price, quality, features.image, branding, winning customers, online marketing and building trust. Consumer changes, preferences and lifestyles. Keynote conference futurist speaker – Patrick Dixon. Energy saving, global warming, carbon neutral business and helping climate change. Videoconferencing and virtual teams. Winning the war for talent – motivation and leadership styles.

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Just Good Business – BK Business Book by Kellie McElhaney

JUST GOOD BUSINESS
The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand
by Kellie McElhaney

Buy Book at Berrett-Koehler Publishers – http://tinyurl.com/6kc3mv

Visit Author at UC Berkeley Website – http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/mcelhaney.html

Every major company has a corporate strategy based on business objectives and competencies of the firm. Most large companies have at least fragmented CSR initiatives, programs, and focus points, and most have dedicated corporate communications teams and focused branding and marketing campaigns. And all companies have employees, who serve, consciously or not, as brand ambassadors. What’s missing—and what McElhaney offers–is an integrated strategy for connecting the dots between CSR efforts, branding and communication to customers and employees, and the company’s core business goals.

Kellie McElhaney is the John C. Whitehead Faculty Fellow of Corporate Responsibility at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. McElhaney teaches multiple courses on Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility in all of the Haas School’s degree programs.

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Leadership, Motivational Management Training – Great Events – keynote at conference for 4,500

Patrick Dixon ranked one of world’s 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 2005) http://www.globalchange.com Great events change people: 4,500 event organisers(MPI. Keynote conference speaker (MPI).Future corporate events: motivational leadership programmes, executive education, team development, seminars, workshops, groups, forums, think tanks, team building exercises and client events. Effective management depends on great communication of leadership vision, mission and strategy. Conference organisation and event planning. Great leadership speeches, motivational tools for team leadership, and how to communicate with large audiences. Change management, business transformation and vision building. Video by keynote conference speaker and Futurist Patrick Dixon. How to motivate business leaders for high performance, profitability and shareholder value. Industry trends for successful events in banking, insurance, retail, manufacturing, services, marketing, aviation, travel, transport, tourism, government and non profit organisations, energy, food and drink, IT and communications and other sectors. Secrets of successful corporate events, and how to give a great, inspiring, uplifting, encouraging, powerful CEO keynote speech. Effective programme development and manager training. Work-life balance and workplace motivation, leadership styles. Why staging, lighting, theatre and performance really matter in successful corporate events. Videoconferencing, virtual teams, virtual working and virtual organisations why most people do not like videoconferencing and how to make video interviews or presentations work in conference programmes. How to create and deliver great lectures using powerpoint and other technology. Innovation and creativity in conference planning or business school programmes. Impact of global warming, climate change and energy prices on demand for corporate events, corporate travel and event location. Secrets of great event production, staging and use of multimedia.

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Secret of Change Management – motivation, leadership skills, development, styles and business strategy – motivational conference keynote speaker – speech by Patrick Dixon

http://www.globalchange.com Motivation and leadership. Motivating teams. How to make things happen – change management, motivating people, leadership styles – motivational speech by Patrick Dixon. Strategy, teams, leadership styles, motivation at work, business success. Transformation. Why motivation is such a key success issue in business. Keys to better motivation at work. Why motivational leadership leads to transformation and achieving business objectives. increasing shareholder value and bottom line profit. Secrets of great leaders. Case studies in successful leadership at work. Making a difference. Corporate and social responsibility. Patrick Dixon video on future trends and motivation – Conference keynote speaker.How to make things happen in Business. Connect with passion, keys to motivation, leadership and change management in business. Managing uncertainty with rapid change. Leadership styles. Why people get out of bed in the morning. How to motivate teams at work to do great things. Business management. Secret of leadership and ultimate leadership speech. Business ethics and values in corporations. Secrets of business success and increased productivity. Cutting costs. Increasing output. Adding shareholder value. Sustainable business success. Work life balance and lessons from non profits / volunteering. Why building a better world is such a powerful motivation. Lecture by Dr Patrick Dixon for MTN, author of Building a Better Business, Futurewise and conference speaker.Motivation at work. Leadership. Leadership purpose, aims, strategy and objectives. Profits and profitability. Motivation to succeed and secrets of business success. Productivity and efficiency key. Workplace morale. Team dynamics and leadership styles. Business mission and vision. Business values and office culture.

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