Top 5 little-known web research sites
Save time doing web research with these five powerfully helpful sites: Ask a Librarian; OWL, the Online Writing Lab; the Phrase Finder; Refdesk.com; and LibrarySpot.com.
Category: Skills Check
Crafting an ‘open me now’ subject line
When you need to send a message to a group of customers, board members or an entire department, you don’t want your message to become lost in the hundred other messages they receive that day.
Up, down, all around: Navigating in Excel
Have you discovered all the shortcuts buried within Excel? Try zipping around Excel spreadsheets using these keyboard techniques.
Cap your conference with a post-con
Your big conference went off without a hitch. In fact, it went so smoothly, your boss might not realize how well you handled everything.
Drive more value into your next road trip
Better than a gas-station road map, a customized AAA TripTik Travel Planner map can help road warriors save time and money.
How to site-inspect from a distance
Are you considering holding your next big business event at a resort? Aim to site-inspect as much as you can before you leave home, advises Amy Pfeiffer, managing sales director for the Walt Disney World Resort.
Working the numbers: Excel dates & times
You can’t do much in Excel if you store dates and times as text. When you store them as numbers, though, endless possibilities exist.
5 tips for smarter business travel
Headed to a conference soon? Plan a better business trip for you or the boss with these five tips.
Gain ‘instant intimacy’: 4 mingling tips
Keith Ferrazzi, CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, is perhaps the best networker in the country; his personal contacts list includes head honchos in business and politics. His message: We all need to find the courage to connect with people, even when we feel out of our league.
Negotiate anything: 3 ‘power’ moves
Your phone calls go unanswered. The meeting you want keeps being postponed. When the other side sees no advantage to negotiating or following up with you, the person may stall, says negotiation expert Deborah M. Kolb. Her solution? Power moves.