Archive for May 2008

Working on Training and development DVD

May 31st, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Acumen

Ive worked with some producers on training and development videos and didnt realise that there are other companys that deal with the closed captioning portition of the production. The DVD will be relased in the fall and will contain training material that I have built up over the last 10 years and training on the […]



Keeping the scientific business of dieting

May 31st, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Acumen

For a long time now ive read an unweilding amount of whitepapers explaining that diet pills are the way to go when trying to loose some weight and with all the proof coming out in the business world and not just the woments magazines its looking more and more like a valid reason for using […]



Memory a bit of a problem on my Business Laptop

May 31st, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Acumen

As im typing here updating my blog I realise that I need to get a little bit moe ram to make my experience typing a little bit better..Hence why i havent spent a lot of time updating the blog recently because everything is so slow , but wait til theres a little more memory and […]



Getting away with the family soon

May 31st, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Acumen

Trying to find somewhere this year to go on holiday with the family was a bit of a challenge seeing as Ive been all over the world and feel that I need to bring the family somewhere better ever year and get some luxury vacations out of our holiday and not just the normal run […]



Keeping my email clean as a whistle

May 29th, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Acumen

One of the main banes of my life since my time working in IT has been spam. When I think back to the newsgroup days when you had your email address scattered all over the web and didnt realaise that any number of spammers were collecting your address for sale or to actually start bombarding […]



Meant to say.. speaking of Business Acumen

May 19th, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Acumen

A buddy of mine rang said he’s been reading up on business acumen and thought he’d call me cause he reckoned I was the guru.. well turns out that theres lots of books out there with my very same thoughts.. must have a look and see if they fit in with my business acumen thinking too….



Garmin Handheld Unit - get me around

May 19th, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Acumen

Im now the proud owner of the Garmin gadget ive read so much about over the last few years. I have friends that rave about them and make out that they compare to the usefulness of slice bread and fresh air when in need…
 
In need seems to be defined as being lost.. Which has happened […]



Developing Standards in Retail Business

May 19th, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Acumen

I was asked to speak at a local conference for Developing Retail standards and Im actually at the point of figuring out what im going to say because you might think with all my chat that im able to come up with something easy , it aint!
Its on in Dublin next month […]



Writing your own Business plan for the future!

May 17th, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Development, Business Plan

Ive written countless business plans and probably the best site ive used for business startup reference is the Government backed site for US Small Business Administration . They have a jam packed site for the small business and a section about writing a business plan.
Writing a business plan is essentially writing a diary for your […]



Asked to explain Business Development

May 17th, 2008 | By Eveloped Journalist | Category: Business Development

I was asked last night over a bottle of wine to explain in a nutshell what I understood by Business development.
 
My basic idea is that a business is like the process of a seed becoming a seedling , to getting its head above ground , to growing and to expanding with all the sun , […]