Google has officially joined Twitter on 25th of February. Their first message was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010?, translated as “feeling lucky”. The account was open by an anonymous staff member identified only as “A Googler” and promises to bring official news and updates from Google.
Almost at the same time, on 24th of February, Cyclope has joinned Twitter. Feel free to follow us! We are committed to bring to our followers valuable news, info and tips on how to grow your business, increase productivity, motivate your employees and many more.
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This is a guest post by Holly McCarthy, who writes on the subject of “top online colleges“.
We’ve been fed on a stream of adages as we grow up that tell us that haste makes waste and that slow and steady wins the race. But we live in a world where most people are speeding along, and if you don’t want to be left out, you’re supposed to keep up. So which version are we supposed to believe – the one where time does not matter or the one where it does?
The dictionary defines productivity in terms of economics as “the rate at which goods or services are produced, especially output per unit of labor”. This is a general statement used to calculate efficiency in manufacturing units where most processes are standardized and automated. Each can be timed to a second and this allows calculation of the output per unit of time, given the units of labor.
But what happens when the labor cannot be quantified in terms of units and when you have labor that cannot be standardized or mass produced? How then will you define productivity? Is it fair to ask an artist to churn out five masterpieces a day? Or is it worth it to ask an author to come up with three best sellers in a year? Continue reading ‘Producing Productivity from Creativity – How Do You Do It?’
Since 2003 when Amplusnet Company was launched, year by year our company took part at the world’s largest and most renowned trade fair for the world of IT and telecommunications, CeBIT.
Considering that strong business relationships were created here, Amplusnet, the owner of Cyclope-Series (Cyclope Employee Monitoring, Cyclope Internet Filter and Cyclope Print Manager) will also be present this year at CeBIT from 3 March to 8 March in Romania’s national stand. Our presence this year at CeBit has the purpose of extending the partners’ network for Cyclope-Series. At this moment Amplusnet has specially created for the trade a multi-language version of our Employee Monitoring Solutions. The available languages are Russian, English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech and Romanian. Continue reading ‘Meet Amplusnet at CeBIT’
We are preparing a new version of our leading product Cyclope Employee Monitoring Solution, the well known productivity tool. We have been working hard in the last 2 months and the result is spectacular.
Version 4.1 comes with improved user interface and better internationalization (for Russian and Hungarian markets). I’m not going to present the complete list of improvements as we will officially launch the new version next week. For now, take a look below to several screen shots of the UI. Enjoy!
Continue reading ‘Cyclope Employee Monitoring v4.1 Preview’
Small Business Trends has collected from their readers a list of useful tips that will definitely help business owners. The original post turned into a PDF document that you can download.
The question asked? “What is the most outrageously creative thing you’ve done to save money or take your business to the next level?”
The tips are divided into two sections:
Part 1 - Creative money-saving tips
Part 2 - Creative business-growth tips
Here are 2 tips that I liked most:
Jim Kukral, The Biz Web Coach, www.TheBizWebCoach.com
“One of the smartest things I’ve done in the past is to waive my consulting fee and tell the customer to ‘pay me what you think it was worth, or nothing at all.’ 99% of time they pay me as much or more than I would have charged. The key is delivering your best work so they are blown away. If you can’t do that it’s probably not a good idea.”
Continue reading ‘Tips for Growing Your Business’
A survey for 2008 year, conducted by Ponemon Institute on 950 peoples who were laid off, fired or quit their jobs, revealed that more than half would take private company data with them. Thinking at the consequences, it only takes some time until this data gets into competitors’ hands, which might be critical for someone’s business. More than that, the survey revealed that 67% used their previous company’s private data to leverage a new job.
Larry Ponemon, the institute founder, said: “I don’t think these people see themselves as being thieves or as stealing” because “they feel they have a right to the information because they created it or it is useful to them and not useful to the employer.” Data was taken on CD’s, DVD’s (53%), memory sticks (42%), sent as an attachment to a specific e-mail address or even taken as a paper document. (Source)
Beside these entire data leak, the survey pointed out that most of the companies in cause, fail in protecting against data theft during layoffs and more than that, 24% of ex-employee said they still had access to the company network after leaving the building.
These numbers should make us think twice when it comes to protecting companies resources and providing access to confidential data.
Securing data is essential to a company’s reputation, profitability and business objectives. And when it comes to security one should be aware that there is an important distinction between network security and data security.
Data security
Information is the support of a business, together with client’s and product’s details. All these are 
stored on computers and operated by employees. An important matter is that often companies are not aware of the threats related with sensitive information within databases until they are checking and creating lists with persons who have access to sensitive data. Considering that almost 80% of all business information is stored in electronic format and keeping in mind that in the last years there was an improvement made by companies related to their data security the conclusion is alarming: only few of the companies have barely achieved a medium security level regarding data protection. Continue reading ‘Data security vs network security’
Despite the deteriorating economic outlook, there are a number of steps that organizations can take to improve employee morale.
Most importantly, organizations should consider how they can help employees shoulder additional work and provide ongoing assistance to leaders struggling to maintain productivity. In the process of interviewing managers and HR professionals about keeping workers engaged and focused, OnPoint Consulting has developed a mix of traditional and innovative ideas for maintaining employee morale.
Increasing disclosure of what’s happening to your company and your industry is one way to improve employee morale. Senior leaders should share timely information regarding the company’s financial health as well as the overall health of the industry. Companies can also rejuvenate recognition programs. Many firms have these programs in place, but don’t use them effectively. Consider gestures ranging from a simple thank-you note to monetary awards.
By finding alternatives to layoffs, companies can boost employee loyalty. To cut costs without displacing staff, many companies are tapping furloughs, salary freezes or cuts, four-day workweeks, and reducing contributions to health and retirement plans. This helps ensure companies will have the staff in place for when things rebound. Finally, encourage employees to contribute ideas for cost savings and process improvements. Not only do some of the best ideas come from workers, but involving people in decisions that affect them decreases the feeling of uncertainty.
Continue reading ‘Maintaining Employee Morale’
It seems that this is going to happen. It’s not an unexpected decision considering that many companies are using Twitter in order to market their brands. Businesses have found it very useful and had many benefits from it, but now it’s seems that Twitter has find a way to take advantages. Or maybe the financial crisis has stroked even Twitter and looking for solutions they found that this is their best way of facing it.
“We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them,” Stone said. “We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts.” (Source)
The subject regarding the costs was avoided the only mention was that individual users would not be charged. At this moment is quite interesting what companies will decide regarding this matter, how high will be the costs and how many of the commercial account will still be active. For example the computer giant Dell told that its “Twitter sale alerts” have added up to about $1 million in revenue, which is quite a deal. (Source)
You can either get it fast or get it right, but there is a small chance to have both at the same time. Efficiency is a measure of speed and cost and it based on the fact that is more important to get someone in here right now than getting the right person later. That’s why efficiency is somehow associated with activity. Effectiveness on the other side is a measure
of quality and goodness and is based on getting the right person at one time than getting someone as fast.
Based on the description above, activity describes a person who is eager to put in time, but not eager to engage himself – a person who tries hard, but is not willing to care. On the opposite, productivity, associated with effectiveness, describes a person who is fully dedicated in what he is doing, both in personal and work life. These people are passionate about their goals, accomplishments, and destinations.
Continue reading ‘Business focus on activity or productivity?’
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