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18 Jun 09 - £23m pot of gold for tech-bamboozled SMEs ...more
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Preventing Employee Cyber Slacking - Handling the Soft Issues As today's business environment becomes increasingly web-enabled, organisations worldwide continue to display a growing interest in understanding and managing their employees' Internet and email use. However, limiting or denying employees' Internet access can create employee resentment, hostility and even reduce productivity further by complicating and delaying the accomplishment of Internet related tasks.
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Are we heading for internet lockdown? Today, almost every employee spends the majority of their working day in front of a PC, and the Internet plays a pivotal role in much that they do. This article examines how today's IT managers are being tasked to manage not only the use of information technology within their organisations but also to consider the impact those technologies can have on the productivity of staff.
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Website aesthetics - what has it got to do with usability? When you choose an apple from a pile, what do you look for? You'll find a lot of reasons are aesthetic - whether it's shiny, it's colour, it's shape... How we choose what to buy is a key question that should be asked when designing an ecommerce website. While we all like to think we all make rational decisions, considering the functional nature of products, aesthetics clearly influences people and their choices. But why are we so easily influenced by aesthetics?
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Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual Mark Kiddell shares his opinions on 'Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual' - an introductory guidebook containing all you need to know to be able to create your own website, get it on the web, and market it.
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Bouncing back - Learning from your responses We can be so impersonal with the way in which we deliver and understand our readers/viewers that the first we hear of them losing their job is from a cold, hard auto responder. Email marketing systems have become so automated, with immense reporting capabilities that we rarely have to deal with anything other than the metrics we desire and fast turnaround statistics. How can we analyse our email marketing bounces to improve our results and understand more about our market area?
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