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- 10 gaffes to avoid with respect to Chinese culture
- If you're doing business in China, meeting with people from China, or planning to work there, you'll want to avoid certain missteps. Calvin Sun explains a bit about Chinese culture and provides a heads-up on a few common mistakes and misconceptions. by Calvin Sun
- Tags: China, Person, Character, Gaffes, Republic, Western, Business Ethics, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Leadership, Management, Manufacturing, Calvin Sun
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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- Images: Top Web news gaffes
- Anyone with access to an online publishing tool can relate to that "I never should have hit the publish button" feeling. We revisit some of those "whoops" moments and their resulting consequences. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Web, TechRepublic Inc., Productivity, CNET News.com, news
- Image galleries 2008-09-22
- 10 gaffes to avoid with respect to Chinese culture
- If you're doing business in China, meeting with people from China, or planning to work there, you'll want to avoid certain missteps. Calvin Sun explains a bit about Chinese culture and provides a heads-up on a few common mistakes and misconceptions.This download is also available as an entry in our...
- Tags: China, Culture, Calvin Sun, Blogging, Internet
- Download resources 2008-07-24
- Microsoft gaffes aplenty
- Microsoft has been in the news lately for problems in its products and services, and the anti-Microsoft crowd is getting whipped into a frenzy over their chance to pillory their adversary. Over the last two weeks of December, the Xbox Live service, Microsoft's online gaming service, experienced glitches as...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Game Players, Microsoft Office, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- How do you deal with dumb?
- The other day, a guy in front of me at the local convenience store asked the clerk for 10 dollars of regular gas on pump 87. Well, you guessed it; 87 was the octane rating. The clerk didnt blink. She just asked the guy to point out his car so...
- Tags: Customer Relations, Helpdesk
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for April 29, 2008
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. This week's...
- Tags: Quibble, Government, Vertical Industries, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Any suggestions for selling obsolete corporate hardware on eBay?
- I've no eBay experience as a buyer or seller, but it gnaws at my soul to throw out functional hardware. (Well, it would if I had a soul; I'm not really sure what's getting gnawed on.) I've received clearance from the Legal department to try to move some...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Operational accounting, hardware, Palmetto, eBay Inc., PayPal, credit card
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- Avoid these six common IT interview mistakes
- By Greg WilliamsYou may have had the experience of returning from an IT interview glowing with the knowledge that you nailed it. Then, you wait weeks for someone to return your calls, only to find out that you missed the mark. It may be that you were simply beat out...
- Tags: Greg Williams, information technology
- Technical articles 2003-07-28
- AMD to market discount Sempron
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest e-newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Network technology, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip, AMD Athlon, AMD Sempron, AMD Athlon XP
- Technical articles 2004-06-07
- Oracle seeks to ease PeopleSoft customer jitters
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Quest International Users Group, merger
- Technical articles 2004-12-21
- 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
- These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. Often, we're in a hurry, quickly dashing off e-mails with typos, grammatical shortcuts (I'm being kind here), and that breezy, e.e. cummings, no-caps look. It's expected. It's no big deal. But other times, we try...
- Tags: Outage, Manufacturing, Jody Gilbert
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- How a little fat busting can improve a resume
- Writing your resume can be like cutting your own hair. You’re so close to the action that it’s almost impossible to avoid one or two gaffes without input from someone you trust.That’s why so many resumes, including this month’s example, fall short of their potential. Writing about your work history...
- Tags: Ben L., database, job, Kevin Donlin, sentence
- Technical articles 2003-06-18
- True confessions: What's your biggest project management mistake?
- What's your worst project management mistake? Some project management veterans share their biggest blunders to prove there's no mistake you can't learn from.In preparing to write about this topic, I realized that most of the project management mistakes I've made over the years are due to a lack of concentration....
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Patrick Andrews, project management
- Technical articles 2002-08-22
- Geek Trivia: Editorial oversight
- Editor's note: As the Trivia Geek gets back in the swing of things for 2008 (read: New Year's hangover), he's decided to run this Classic Geek, originally published Feb. 27, 2007, as a response to Merriam-Webster declaring w00t as the Word of the Year for 2007. This should remind you...
- Tags: Problem, Word, Editor, Webster, D, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-01-01
- Avoid the seven most common pitfalls of job-hunting
- Job-hunters tend to make seven common mistakes. From resume miscues to interviewing gaffes, here are the mistakes to avoid--and better approaches to adopt instead.By Abbi PeretsThere's one problem with following stock resume and interview advice: You'll sound like you're following stock advice. Most employers can see through it in less...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Guest Contributor, job, interviewer
- Technical articles 2002-07-16
- Geek Trivia: Contest(ed) winners
- If one definition of insanity is to try the same action over and over yet hope for different results, then Pepsi marketers might be able to defend a claim that their cola is the most insane soft drink on the planet. Why? Because Pepsi is still running promotional contests to...
- Tags: PepsiCo, Sea Launch, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Avoid the seven most common pitfalls of job-hunting
- There are seven common mistakes that job-hunters tend to make. From resume miscues to interviewing gaffes, find out which issues to avoid--and better approaches to adopt instead.This article originally appeared on Builder.com’s sister site, TechRepublic.com.By Abbi PeretsThere's one problem with following stock resume and interview advice: You'll sound like you're...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Guest Contributor, job, interviewer
- Technical articles 2002-07-31
- Budding Programming Interests by Students; Where to focus one's interest?
- I AM NOT a developer/programmer although I played around with C,C++ Borland Products, and Visual Basic years ago. When things progressed beyond DOS 6.22 and WIN 3.1 I didn't have time to keep up. In the interim I know that programming languages have undergone tremendous changes and the popularity...
- Tags: billclewis2@..., career, e-mail, education, feedback, hardware, learning, object-oriented, programming, software, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-10-19
- 10+ project management mistakes (and what you can learn from them)
- Most of the project management mistakes I've made over the years are due to a lack of concentration. The truth is, when things are running smoothly or when you're diverted by other priorities, it can be easy to take your eye off the ball. I often mistakenly thought that even...
- Tags: Team, Truth, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, TechRepublic
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Lock IT Down: User policies are good first step in minimizing security risks
- Set these policies to teach users how to minimize security risksContrary to popular belief, corporate sabotage is among the least likely causes of computer security breaches, according to an April 2002 survey by the Computer Security Institute. Its Computer Crime and Security Survey reports that sabotage accounted for just 8...
- Tags: David Southgate, Polivec Inc., security
- Technical articles 2002-10-16
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