...files into a tree structure.” If you have ever downloaded a software on your computer you may have noticed how you can find it in the C drive under Program files. The root of this file is the C:\ portion which then stems off into one folder after another to form a tree like structure. For businesses this can be a huge impact on them; without even realizing it they are impacted by the operating system file management they use from storage to security to network. The following paragraphs will say how UNIX file management is set up, along with how it would work in a large company, and also an alternative to the UNIX file management for a large company. First we will start off with how UNIX uses their file management system with another operating system such as Windows. Unlike Windows UNIX has a unique directory structure. In Windows the user will be seeing common file names such as Program File or Users, but in UNIX stuff like a particular application would be scattered into multiple folders. Another difference is the case sensitivity on file names; while Windows you can’t have a folder named “sample” and another folder in that same folder named “SAMPLE”, UNIX is the opposite and can even allow multiple folders with the same name in the same file. UNIX also uses forward slashes / in their directory path and Windows uses backslashes \. On Windows you will notice that you error...
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...Overview of Social Networking Sites Social networking is a phenomenon which has existed since society began. Human beings have always sought to live in social environments. The proliferation of social networking sites (SNS) and their pervasion in everyday practices is affecting how Western societies manage their social networks. To a significant extent, SNS have shifted social networking to the Internet. In less than five years, these sites have grown from a niche online activity into a phenomenon through which tens of millions of internet users are connected, both in their leisure time, and at work. There are various factors which have prompted us to consider the implications of these technologies for policy-making. One of these is the willingness of users to embrace SNS as a means of communication and social networking in everyday life. The increasing dependence on technology for basic communication also highlights the importance of analysing how SNS are affecting daily processes. Sites like Facebook, Friendster and LinkedIn are influencing the way users establish, maintain and cultivate a range of social relationships, from close friendships to casual acquaintances. Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. Since their introduction, social network sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld, and Bebo have attracted millions of users, many of whom have...
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...1. John Camp on how to be successful in a company be able to market yourself learn how to sell yourself know people maintain contact 2. Traits looked for creative aggressive be able to recover and recoup after being told “no” enthusiasm smart honesty 3. What would you do to sell yourself to distinguish yourself from others Likeability 38% of the emotional impact you have, in order to be able to market yourself effectively to others is judged according to your vocal ability. Must pay attention to tone of your voice 4. Look for when hiring interpersonal communication skills teamwork honesty core confidency – what you are good at * 1/24/12 Al Mechabian 55% depends on your visual for people to pay attention to you visual – face expressions having a default look that makes you appealing 7% of emotional impact is due to verbal arrangement of the message 1/26/12 5. Credibility – believability when you interact with other people trust/honest/sincerity Knowledge, expert Identification, association Position/status/success Charisma/ personal brand 1/31/12 ** Read chapter 1 and next first two sections 6. 4 philosophies in marketing management production orientation sales orientation marketing orientation about the understanding the customer societal orientation sustainability – that we keep everything in the world good and clean 7. 3 marketing goals be able to create customer value benefits – cost = value customer satisfaction...
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...town in Nebraska that has a population of about 2,500 and is at least two hours from the nearest Wal-Mart. To add on I’m also accustomed to life in a city where there’s actually traffic, and used to the noises of emergency vehicles’ sirens going off at about 2 a.m. Both my dad and my uncle go almost yearly to a small town in Nebraska to work for a man named William V. Stroup, who owns a maintenance company that my dad and my uncle work in. My dad had gotten news that the bus that was bringing my uncle to Nebraska was hit in an accident and would not make it on time, or not all. At the time that this happened, it was about the middle of May and my dad had already left because Bill and my uncle would meet in Omaha, Nebraska and from there go to Valentine, where Bill Stroup lived and based his company. The work that the company does is mostly painting things in factories, farmhouses and large farm silos, and putting up signs for the companies they would work for. The work would be done mostly by my uncle and my dad, and Bill would work on getting the work, contracts from bigger companies, but would rarely work with my dad and uncle, but what they just found out was that my uncle would not be coming to work because of surgeries that would have to be done soon, because of the bus accident. The work would soon become overwhelming for my dad and Bill, who were ages forty-two and sixty-five, so they would soon need another worker. It was about mid-May 2012, and I was still...
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...glory to God. While extreme wealth and extreme poverty are both considered 'bad things' there's no way of drawing a line, no attempt at working out how some inequality is good but too much inequality is bad. Nor is there recognition that in the countries that have excelled in competition, profit making and generally getting rich is also the countries with the greatest inequality. So while it is good to be in business, and it is good to equip those who are called to business, this short book is unbalanced by taking complicated issues and making them black and white. For me is what the Bible is about taking a yes being a yes and a no meaning don’t do it, nor go there because he gives you all the reasons of what happens in evil deeds. Companies close, people go bankrupt and show on the news of people going to jail for fraud for being greedy. Hebrews 12:11 NIV No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. You must be fiscally disciplined in business. You cannot put all your hard work at risk by not being focused on your big picture goals and your monthly sales goals. It is painful at times, but it will produce quite a harvest. I believe the book Business for the Glory of God; was telling us to do just as the scripture...
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...1. (a) Why are the retailers suffering and closing? Is it something they are doing? Not doing? Or is the decline inevitable? To make a sustainable and competitive advantage or to create own valuable brand it is very important to be a successful retail business. Those retailers who is current suffering or almost closing just because the online shopping has long been the public recognition (Berman, 2016). But from my point of views, I do not believe that the traditional retailing store could be totally replaced by the online store, but more and more retailing store face to closing. So there are some reasons for those store who were beat to closing by the online shopping. First, mostly they do not have a clear target or the market strategy. Such as the Brent Coope who owns his own business at Westfield’s Albany mall. He paid almost $250,000 a year just for the lease his shop. The online store may just need to pay 1/1000 of that payment. Their strategy is to sell the most fashionable brands like Superdry. But those brands are everywhere online now. So that makes his store are not competitive. Second, the online shopping and the traditional shopping provide different service to the customers. For example, the online shopping could spend less time for the customers and they might also get a better price than the traditional store. But the traditional store could provide some service which could not be replaced by the online shopping such as if you want to buy a shirt, online store...
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...Using the SQ3R Study Method A. Kent Van Cleave, Jr., Ph.D. Why use a study method? Perhaps you have noticed recently that everyone, especially in the news media, is talking about something called the information revolution. This term refers to some profound changes that have affected most aspects of our lives and that have been caused by computers. In the workplace, information technology has caused many work organizations to completely restructure themselves. Electronic data interchange has helped companies closely link themselves with their customers and their suppliers. Computers have made mass production obsolete by giving manufacturers the ability to customize the product exactly the way the individual customer wants it. (Look for the big auto manufacturers to have Websites soon where you choose nearly every feature on your car, apply for a loan to buy it, and then specify where it will be delivered, all without having to go to the showroom.) Computers have also automated many jobs, including those of many middle managers. The result of this has been fewer levels of management in large organizations and higher productivity in the production facility. For most products, the cost of the goods on store shelves has dropped dramatically over the last ten years. But this explosion of information technology has its challenges in the workplace, too. Because of it the pace of change has increased. Work organizations find that they must continually adapt as technology progresses...
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...interesting reading. Apps in content-curation tools like Storify provide relevant context for content. Apps on mobile devices, such as Yelp’s, help you find bars and restaurants. Apps using QR readers give you deeper information on companies and products. Apps are delivering sports scores, movie times, videos and images. In this guide I'll give you the why and how on a handful of apps that I use every single day to increase my personal productivity and run my business. Sincerely, John Jantsch, founder of Duct Tape Marketing table of contents dropbox // page 6 evernote // page 8 gmail // page 10 stumbleupon // page 12 instagram // page 14 pinterest // page 16 delicious // page 18 about the author // page 20 Dropbox isn’t the new kid on the block and lots of folks speak lovingly about this online file storage service. There’s a free version that may be robust and large enough for most, but I’ve chosen the full meal deal because I use Dropbox so completely. There are other tools that can do all of what I’m going to describe, but from a file-handling standpoint, ease of use, and set-up the way I work, Dropbox is killer. why • • • • • • 6 I have a small staff and Dropbox is our internal server. We store everything and collaborate on files just like you would in any server environment. The main difference is that our Dropbox server is in the cloud and we can easily access all files...
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...The performance Story A Common Misunderstanding: "I'll Know Results When I See 'Em'" Employee Ed is a new employee at a print shop. He has been hired to run a machine that prints out high-quality pictures. The pictures go to other departments, including the Catalog Department, to use in brochures, catalogs, advertisements, etc. Ed's new supervisor, Supervisor Sam, is new on the job, too. He's worked hard to get where he's at. He was an expert at running the collating machine. Sam's machine took printed images from machines like Ed's and organized them into the Catalog Department's final product, a catalog. Sam doesn't like Ed at first. Ed looks just like Sam's brother whom Sam does not like at all. Still, as a new supervisor, Sam tries to give Ed a chance. Sam wants to be sure that Ed does a good job. He isn't all that sure what "good job" means, but he thinks he'll know it when he sees it. So Sam sends Ed to a course to learn how to run the print machine. The description of the course said students would learn all about the machine. That should work out fine. Training for Skills -- or a Good Time? Teacher Tom wants to convince supervisors to send employees to his course. Tom claims the result from his course is that each student will know how to run the printing machine. Tom hasn't really thought about how to achieve that result. He knows a lot about the machine and likes to tell people about it. So he thinks he'll be a fine teacher. Tom includes a lot of lectures in...
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...be called as a Business Case. Typically, a Business Case would be documented for future reference or sometimes stated orally for better understanding. It usually depends on the business ideology and its practical implementation(TechTarget, n.d.). Before thinking of building a business case, an individual should understand thoroughly the core of the project. It may take huge efforts in achieving this goal but a rough estimate of the same would be beneficiary(TechTarget, n.d.). Example: If the manager of a sunglasses store notices that the business is very slow in the winter, he can tell the owner by preparing a business case for store renovation in winter with winter stuff along with the sunglasses. It might create some good business(TechTarget, n.d.). Method in developing business case: * Complete Overview and Thorough Analysis: While submitting a business case, the analysis done should be covered all around in order to achieve a better result of the Project and a feasible Solution to overcome the same(TechTarget, n.d.). * Validating if the business case built is actually stating the exact problem and thereby resolving it(TechTarget, n.d.). * Complete documentation of how good the idea is in resolving the issue(TechTarget, n.d.). * Looking for the financial advantages to the organization. Business case has to answer many questions like 1) Is it done in proper way? 2) Is done in a correct format? 3) Is the result good? 4) Benefits of it? Such...
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...Microsoft Has Suddenly Gotten Serious with Mobile The Article’s overview Microsoft is showing that it wants to meet mobile users where they are, not where the company hopes they will be one day. Instead of using the strategy of pushing the mobile operation system in customer’s smartphones, Microsoft turned outside the company to bolster its mobile app offerings for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system. The reason for changing the strategy is that the company has figured out that Window’s mobile operating system dominates only three percent of the market share of mobile phone, while Android occupies the largest for 85% and iOS, the second, is at 11%. Initially, Microsoft attempted to compete with Apple and Google by buying the Nokia Company to put its own mobile operating system on the market as Windows Phone. Also, Microsoft did not make its software available for any competitors. However, this strategy never hurt any rivals, only Microsoft itself. With disappointing results, Microsoft has shifted its strategy and developed more applications and services and has brought them to Apple’s and Android’s devices. Early last year, Microsoft released the mobile version of Office 365 applications as well as OneDrive. They work well with other cloud storage apps such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or iCloud. Outlook is the latest application that was released in late January 2015. It is the email and calendar application for the heavy email users. Outlook is...
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...Story Of Stuff, Referenced and Annotated Script By Annie Leonard Do you have one of these? I got a little obsessed with mine, in fact I got a little obsessed with all my stuff. Have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out.? I couldn’t stop wondering about that. So I looked it up. And what the text books said is that our stuff simply moves along these stages: extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal. All together, it’s called the materials economy. Well, I looked into it a little bit more. In fact, I spent 10 years traveling the world tracking where our stuff comes from and where it goes.1 And you know what I found out? That is not the whole story. There’s a lot missing from this explanation. For one thing, this system looks like it’s fine. No problem. But the truth is it’s a system in crisis. And the reason it is in crisis is that it is a linear system and we live on a finite planet and you can not run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.2 Every step along the way, this system is interacting with the real world. In real life it’s not happening on a blank white page. It’s interacting with societies, cultures, economies, the environment. And all along the way, it’s bumping up against limits. Limits we don’t see here because the diagram is incomplete. So let’s go back through, let’s fill in some of the blanks and see what’s missing. Well, one of the most important things that is missing...
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...make sure that he puts his best foot forth to make sure his businesses become successful. His first project was opening a laundry service in college for all the college students and it very well which led to it expanding to other colleges. Blake then sold the laundry company and then started a music company that aimed at country music stars, with the success of that he sold that company also. Blake has a great business mind and he has great ideas to generate profit that’s why his businesses were successful. Mycoskie raised 2 million dollars with a reality show which they got the money from celebrities but it was later bought by Rupert Murdoch that too was a success. After those business ventures, another one came about and this time he partnered with a traffic school to help promote Driver’s Education Direct and he also created a marketing company to promote Driver’s Education Direct. Blake Mycoskie makes very wise business choices that have led him to the point that he is today. His leadership skills are absolutely intriguing because he makes his businesses successful and knows when to let go of the business because he has reached his profitable goal for that business. Blake Mycoskie is better known for his company called TOMS. Mycoskie went to Argentina...
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...the numbers are increasing. Diet and nutrition play a major role in the United States epidemic of obesity. Although it is very complex especially when Americans are sent mixed messages on what to eat and how much they should eat. On one hand, you have packaged processed food, bigger portions and fast food meals that are marketed as all American. The food is delicious and filling but fast and cheap. On the other hand, Americans spend almost twenty billion dollars every year on the newest weight loss fads, from weight loss drugs to books on the newest weight loss diet to weight loss surgeries like gastric bypass, lap-bands and Hollywood’s favorite, liposuction. Everyone is looking for everything fast. Fast-food, and fast weight loss options. We spend more time at work to pay for all the fast stuff in our lives instead of spending time at home and in our own kitchens cooking nutritious meals for our whole family like our parents did fifty years ago. (Overeaters Anonymous, 1980) This crazy relationship Americans have with food is easy to explain in terms of schemes in marketing. As years upon years of takeout pizza and caffeinated soda caught up with America the diet industry in the United States started growing bigger, smarter and faster about churning out that next biggest weight loss fad. Since the 1970s, weight loss fads and so called popular nutrition have been on a roller coaster of highs and lows. In the 1990s, fat was the biggest culprit. Low-fat and...
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...Praise for Getting Things Done "The Season's Best Reads for Work-Life Advice .. . my favorite on organizing your life: Getting Things Done . . . offers help building the new mental skills needed in an age of multitasking and overload." —Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal "I recently attended David's seminar on getting organized, and after seeing him in action I have hope . .. David Allen's seminar was an eye-opener." —Stewart Alsop, Fortune "Allen drops down from high-level philosophizing to the fine details of time management. Take a minute to check this one out." —Mark Henricks, Entrepreneur "David Allen's productivity principles are rooted in big ideas ... but they're also eminently practical." —Keith H. Hammonds, Fast Company "David Allen brings new clarity to the power of purpose, the essential nature of relaxation, and deceptively simple guidelines for getting things done. He employs extensive experience, personal stories, and his own recipe for simplicity, speed, and fun." —Frances Hesselbein, chairman, board of governors, The Drucker Foundation "Anyone who reads this book can apply this knowledge and these skills in their lives for immediate results." —Stephen P. Magee, chaired professor of business and economics, University of Texas at Austin "A true skeptic of most management fixes, I have to say David's program is a winner!" —Joline Godfrey, CEO, Independent Means, Inc. and author of Our Wildest Dreams "Getting Things Done describes an incredibly practical...
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