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<title><![CDATA[New Sectors and Regions Dominate Top 25 Companies]]></title>
<link>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/new-sectors-and-regions-dominate-top-25-companies/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hkarner</dc:creator>
<guid>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/new-sectors-and-regions-dominate-top-25-companies/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A very interesting chart from the Wall Street Journal. NewSectorsDominateTop25Companies]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>A very interesting chart from the Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p><a href="http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/newsectorsdominatetop25companies.pdf">NewSectorsDominateTop25Companies</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lyric Labs, an ISO 9001, EN 15038 certified Translation Company offers translation services in more than 142 languages]]></title>
<link>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/22/lyric-labs-an-iso-9001-en-15038-certified-translation-company-offers-translation-services-in-more-than-142-languages/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lyric Labs</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/22/lyric-labs-an-iso-9001-en-15038-certified-translation-company-offers-translation-services-in-more-than-142-languages/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today, it is easier than ever to create and manage a global business. Advances in technology have ma]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Today, it is easier than ever to create and manage a global business. Advances in technology have made the world shrink into manageable market.  For managing a successful global business, proper communication is necessary. If a businessman plans to run a business and selling his products in a foreign country, he must be aware of the cultural, political, linguistic and social situations in that country. It is important to translate international marketing campaigns or advertising slogans and localize them in order to adapt to a foreign market. <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">Translation agencies</a> experiencing a growing demand for <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation</a> of texts from various languages.<br />
Communicating with people from different countries is increasingly important in international business and that highlighting the need for <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation services</a>. Overcoming the communication problem became one of the most critical issues facing by the businessmen doing international trade. International trade and world economy depend on the support of the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation agencies</a> in order to ensure seamless communication between trading partners and facilitate trade and commercial relations and the exchange of goods easier. Professional translators specialize in a particular field that coverage of his agency, such as technical, legal and financial translations. The sales letter that works at home may not provide sales on a foreign market. With the specific skills, translators are able to translate a wide range of texts accurately.<br />
Lyric Labs is an ISO 9001 certified company pioneer in <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation services</a> providing services in more than140 languages across the world. The company has more than 7000 highly skilled local translators who are offering service to more than 2500 clients worldwide. The company works with the top names in various industries like IT, automotive, banking and medical. <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com">Localization</a> is one crucial step in a company’s progression from domestic to global enterprises. Companies need accurate business translation and getting it right is vital to make a good impression. Lyric Labs has a national wide network and is one of the best 10 linguistic companies having best business practices.<br />
To share the information with potential customers and prospectus, it is important to speak in their language. The best way is to inform the details in their own language using anecdotes and terminology they are used to. This gives the customers a sense of security and familiarity, and they are more likely to trust the products instead of the competitor. Lyric Labs follow a very systematic translation process. Once the company entered into a project, a team member of the project management contacts the client to gather information about requirements and within the given deadline they try to complete the work in a professional way.  The native <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translators</a> from Lyric Labs provide a high quality <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">language translation</a> at an affordable rate. Translator must adapt the local communication strategy. Lyric Labs play an important role in the provision of linguistic services all over the world.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lyric Labs is a certified translation service provider specialized in translating marketing, training and product literatures]]></title>
<link>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/21/lyric-labs-is-a-certified-translation-service-provider-specialized-in-translating-marketing-training-and-product-literatures/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lyric Labs</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/21/lyric-labs-is-a-certified-translation-service-provider-specialized-in-translating-marketing-training-and-product-literatures/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Translation of documents is very essential for any company which is conducting the business internat]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Translation of documents is very essential for any company which is conducting the business internationally. The documents which are translated from the base on which a company’s image and reputation are to be built, since the translated documents reach the clients world over. In order that the target clients globally are to be roped in to the fold of the products and services of a company, it is very essential that an <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">effective translation</a> mechanism has to be sought and only through which the client base can be developed further. Lyric Labs is successfully focusing its efforts, in providing many industries both domestic as well as international, with the required <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation</a> solutions to enable them to thrive in a viable and profitable manner.<br />
Lyric Labs is an ISO certified service provider in translation in the field of marketing, training and product literature. These services are vital for any company, irrespective of its turnover, to reach the international clients and offices located in foreign destinations. In other words, <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation</a> of documents is very essential for a company to have a clear and effective communication with the business staff and the consumers located in other regions of the world.<br />
Marketing forms  the core activity of a business enterprise because the various marketing strategies adopted  by the company such as the product branding, materials for marketing, guidelines , manuals, market research all contribute to the success in the product marketing by the company. International companies rely on agencies well versed in providing <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation solutions</a> on these lines. Lyric Labs, with its skilled and experienced translator, has now emerged as the best marketing <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation provider</a> to cater to the business Institutions in different sectors and deliver an accurate and consistent translation materials intended for international consumers and companies.<br />
A new area in marketing strategy is the product advertising and the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation services</a> in this field are gaining momentum today’s globalised marketing. Multilingual product advertising is best used to increase the client base in other countries and this enables the international clients to feel more close to the products and services of a company. Providing adequate training in handling the products of a company is important for trouble free service of the product. For example, machinery produced by a company should give detailed guidelines on how to operate the equipment for maximum output. If the product when reaches the multinational consumer an accurate and precise translated guidelines in their language is absolutely necessary to avoid any accident while operating the equipment.<br />
Most companies strive hard to highlight their image in a consistent manner across the world which is very imperative for a sustained growth of the enterprise and this is made possible only through an experienced agency well versed in providing <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation solutions</a>. The product brand name, the product literature, the product brochure and the product guarantee literature are all some of the items which gives credentials to the products of a company. When the consumers of the products and the marketing personnel are spread over to other countries, an accurate and confusion <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">free translation</a> only can create confidence on the products among the consumers and clients.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lyric Labs signs contract with major product manufacturers for localization the marketing materials]]></title>
<link>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/19/lyric-labs-signs-contract-with-major-product-manufacturers-for-localization-the-marketing-materials/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lyric Labs</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/19/lyric-labs-signs-contract-with-major-product-manufacturers-for-localization-the-marketing-materials/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today, international market became more competitive, it is important to be able to present product d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Today, international market became more competitive, it is important to be able to present product details and marketing materials in the native language of the potential clients in different countries. <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">Translation</a> is a process of interpreting the text from one language to another without losing the original concept. It is the process of communicating the matter of the text rather than interpreting simple word to word meaning. It is important to translate the message clearly and accurately. Technology helps people to promote their business beyond the border of the particular language speaking people. This increases the demand of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translators</a> who could translate the matter into different languages.<a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">Translation</a> job needs special skills and excellence and each finished work need to satisfy client’s requirement. The career in translation offers a many opportunities of getting valid and well paid jobs. Interpreters and translators help to improving the cross-cultural interactions essential for the global marketing. They spread concepts and ideas between languages.A simple <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation</a> of texts can provoke adverse reactions of the consumers and sometimes lead to misunderstanding of the message. It is necessary to take into account the practices of communication and the nature of the perception of promotional materials formed in the country. A small company can even makes it products and services to millions of potential consumers all over the world with the right marketing tools and plans. New technologies like the internet help to access the global market. To deals with a foreign market, all businesses sooner or later face the issue of modification of marketing and informational materials to communicate with the local environment.</p>
<p>Lyric Labs is an ISO 9001 company providing <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation services</a> and content localization services to many companies. They are one of the pioneers in providing telephonic interpretation services. The company specializes in translation, DTP, localization, dubbing, subtitling, multilingual voiceovers and telephonic <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">interpretation services</a>. Translators have tremendous impact on the localization of industry.</p>
<p>Lyric Labs has signed many contracts with many major companies to promote their products through content <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">localization services</a>. The localization helps to generate more business with the high quality content localization. The reputation of wide experience in translation and localization of marketing materials, Lyric Labs make it possible for the incorporation of the translated material into cultural and linguistic context of the market while maintaining the meaning and make the text interesting and understandable to the consumers.</p>
<p>Companies like Lyric labs deliver the work done in time without compromising the quality. The cheaper cost that is involved in the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">localization</a> of marketing materials makes Lyric Labs to highlight the rest. The perfection and the cost effectiveness make the company a pioneer in the linguistic support services worldwide. The transcription process of Lyric Labs is completely streamlined and that helps a team of highly expert professionals to do the job brilliantly simple and perfect.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lyric Labs is the largest translation agency in India]]></title>
<link>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/18/lyric-labs-is-the-largest-translation-agency-in-india/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lyric Labs</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/18/lyric-labs-is-the-largest-translation-agency-in-india/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The translation industry in India is one of the best service providers in the world in respect of qu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The translation industry in India is one of the best service providers in the world in respect of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">quality translation</a> output and is viewed as very cost effective. In today’s world of global economic recession, the impact of recession is viewed as very minimal as far as Indian economy is considered and this is the main reason why more and more foreign companies are coming forward to have business transactions in India. This has given a boost to the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation industry</a> in India requiring handling the translation solutions needed by the foreign companies.</p>
<p>In spite of the existence of a large number of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com">translation companies</a> in India providing translation solutions, the Lyric Labs is viewed by many Indian as well as foreign companies as the ultimate destination for outsourcing their translation requirements. Lyric Labs founded in 1998, is an ISO 9001 certified company providing translation solutions in more than 142 languages.</p>
<p>Lyric Labs is the largest <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation solution provider</a> in India, having a large network of offices located in the country. The growing demand for translation from the clients, both domestic as well as International, has forced  the Lyric Labs to reset its goals in provision of various translation  services in order  to keep pace with the ever growing outsourcing of translation work by the various companies. The <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">quality translation</a> work which is cost effective, adherence to the deadline for the assignments received from the clients and overall , the work satisfaction both for the clients and the service provider , is the secret of Lyric Labs in scaling the new heights in providing translation solutions.</p>
<p>Business Institutions of varied ranges located all over India are benefited to a great extent by the translation services offered by the expert team of Lyric Labs in their business transactions. Lyric Labs also extend their support to companies in <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation solutions</a> in subtitling their audio visual programs in other languages to enable foreign audiences to have access to their programs retaining the original sound track.</p>
<p>Lyric Labs is the only <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com" target="_blank">translation agency</a> in India who have adequate expertise in handling industries in multifarious sectors such as the automobile, medicine, pharmaceuticals, legal, finance, information technology etc.  Lyric Labs provide the necessary translation services for Pharmacy, Biotech, Healthcare, CRO document translation, Instruction manuals, Training manuals, Marketing materials, Exhibition materials, Banking, Financial, Legal and other related documents, Product package translation, Web site / Multimedia localization, Software Localization, Software module, Help manual, training manual, etc.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Rebooting the association]]></title>
<link>http://innovationeye.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/rebooting-the-association/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>innovationeye</dc:creator>
<guid>http://innovationeye.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/rebooting-the-association/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While media budgets are squeezed still further as we trudge onward under the cloud of recession, tri]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>While media budgets are squeezed still further as we trudge onward under the cloud of recession, trillionesque debt and the massive public spending cuts gathering on the horizon, the focus on social media ROI grows ever sharper, but less energy is expended looking at the benefits that focused online communities can bring to businesses.</p>
<p>Communities for not-for-profits and membership bodies have a slightly different flavour to those developed for commercial entities. While commercial brands answer to shareholders or private owners, NFPs and membership bodies exist for the benefit of their constituents. There is already a genuine, real-world community or shared interest in place &#8211; just as there isn’t (really) between me and say, Sainsbury’s &#8211; so a digital community is a natural fit.</p>
<p>But that doesn’t mean it’s any simpler, nor is the transition to deeper member or supporter engagement any less challenging for the organising bodies than a renewed focus on customer engagement is for businesses. There is a lot of overlap. An event I attended at the Law Society on 6th October, “<a title="Surviving in a recession - what memebr organisations can learn from the commercial world" href="http://www.siftgroups.com/surviving-recession-what-member-organisations-can-learn" target="_self">Surviving in a Recession – What Member Organisations can Learn from the Commercial World</a>&#8221; addressed the challenges and opportunities in this area.</p>
<p>One of the things I liked about it was the way it set online communities in a longer timeframe than we’re used to talking about. Many membership bodies have been around for 50-200 years. Most started out when enthusiastic and committed people come together informally – usually in a bar room, hotel or coffee house &#8211; to improve and professionalise emerging crafts and knowledge.</p>
<p>Fast forward to now, and these bodies occupy grand buildings, wield influence with governments and business, and provide letters after your name. But are they achieving their original aims? How close are they to their members today, and how can a geographically dispersed membership benefit from the knowledge and experience of their fellow members and the wider interested audience? In other words, can we re-boot the association?</p>
<p>The event was co-hosted by Sift – who are the technology and consultancy supplier for <a title="CIMAsphere community website" href="http://community.cimaglobal.com/">CIMAsphere</a>, the online community I manage – and Madgex. Rather than reading a re-cap of the discussion, you can watch the presentations from two of the speakers that morning.</p>
<p>First up is Adam Cranfield, my former colleague, who was at the time Digital Media Manager at <a title="CIMA website" href="http://www.cimaglobal.com" target="_self">CIMA</a>.</p>
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<p>The second presentation is from Lawrence Clarke, Head of Consultancy at Sift. Sadly you can’t see his slides in the video, nor Adam&#8217;s in his. But the stand-out points for me were Lawrence&#8217;s thoughts on the tendency of subscription-based associations to rely on inertia and top-down, one-to-many communications, and how that is being undermined by the connectedness and transparency the web brings on the one hand, and recessionary pressures on the other.</p>
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<p>That talk is a companion piece to <a title="Recession is a good cure for complacency" href="http://www.siftgroups.com/blog/recession-good-cure-complacency">this post</a> Lawrence wrote a month earlier on the Sift blog. Highly recommended.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Wired: Facebook Loosens Privacy Controls, Sparks a Backlash]]></title>
<link>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/wired-facebook-loosens-privacy-controls-sparks-a-backlash/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bhoetzl</dc:creator>
<guid>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/wired-facebook-loosens-privacy-controls-sparks-a-backlash/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Photo: Andrew Feinberg) Facebook simplified its privacy controls for 350 million users Wednesday. B]]></description>
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<p><span style="color:#333333;"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8px;">(</span></font><span style="line-height:18px;"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8px;">Photo:</span></font> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfeinberg/2324843973/" style="color:#007CA5;text-decoration:none;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;margin:0;padding:0;"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8px;">Andrew Feinberg</span></font></a><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8px;">)</span></font></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#333333;line-height:18px;"><i>Facebook simplified its privacy controls for 350 million users Wednesday. But some users and privacy advocates protest that important controls got lost in translation — including the right to keep one’s data from unscrupulous third-party developers.</i></span></p>
<p><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/facebook-privacy-backlash/" target="_blank">Read the full article</a> on Wired with updates and interesting comments from facebook.</span></font></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Branson explains ethics &amp; rationale behind Virgin spaceship]]></title>
<link>http://neerajbhushan.com/2009/12/11/branson-explains-ethics-rationale-behind-virgin-spaceship/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neeraj Bhushan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://neerajbhushan.com/2009/12/11/branson-explains-ethics-rationale-behind-virgin-spaceship/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[“Virgin Galactic will also act as a test-bed for new and clean technologies” Unable to resist his ex]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Good for Cornwall's businesses, pensioners, and families]]></title>
<link>http://falmouthlabour.com/2009/12/09/good-for-cornwalls-businesses-pensioners-and-families/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Truro and Falmouth Labour</dc:creator>
<guid>http://falmouthlabour.com/2009/12/09/good-for-cornwalls-businesses-pensioners-and-families/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Labour&#8217;s prospective MP for Truro and Falmouth today welcomed the Chancellor&#8217;s pre-budge]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Economy - How To Position Yourself In A Recession]]></title>
<link>http://montgomerylife.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/economy-how-to-position-yourself-in-a-recession/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>montgomerylife</dc:creator>
<guid>http://montgomerylife.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/economy-how-to-position-yourself-in-a-recession/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With the management of household or private affairs and especially expenses with thrifty and efficie]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>With the management of household or private affairs and especially </p>
<p>expenses with thrifty and efficient use of material resources, frugality </p>
<p>in expenditures with an instance of economizing, efficient and concise use </p>
<p>of nonmaterial resources, the mode of operation of something, it is </p>
<p>recommended that all of us need to position ourselves in this economy in </p>
<p>order to survive the economic recession.</p>
<p>What is being shared with you here is a system especially of interaction </p>
<p>and exchange that will help you to structure a workable plan with the </p>
<p>conditions of economic life in our country as we know it today. If you </p>
<p>make the decision to follow this recommended plan, it will carry you </p>
<p>through during our Economic times successfully. </p>
<p>Step One &#8211; Analyze Your Situation</p>
<p>This is the first thing that you need to do before you do anything else. </p>
<p>This is the most important step of this plan and I cannot stress it </p>
<p>enough. What needs to happen here is for you to study or determine the </p>
<p>nature and relationship of the parts of your financial situation. When you </p>
<p>do this, you want to look at your financial picture for what it is without </p>
<p>any judgments or emotions; you want to deal with reality. By doing this, </p>
<p>you are positioning yourself to sail through this Economic time that we </p>
<p>are in. </p>
<p>Step Two &#8211; Create A Budget </p>
<p>After you have taken a realistic look at your finances, it is time for you </p>
<p>to create a statement of the financial position that you are in for a </p>
<p>definite period of time based on the estimates of your expenditures during </p>
<p>the calendar month and the exact amount of income that you have coming in. </p>
<p>It is important for you to have a plan for the coordination of your </p>
<p>resources and expenditures in order to position yourself accordingly so </p>
<p>that you will be able to weather the Economic recession. </p>
<p>Step Three &#8211; Create A Savings Plan</p>
<p>It is also important for you to take the excess of income over the </p>
<p>consumption of your expenditures per month to create a detailed </p>
<p>formulation of a program of action that you will adhere to each month on </p>
<p>an ongoing basis. This step is also highly recommended as well due to </p>
<p>unforeseen house repairs or another type of emergency situation. This way, </p>
<p>you will have the money you need without taking out a loan in order to </p>
<p>take care of the situation and once the situation is resolved, you can </p>
<p>then resume saving the specified amount that you choose to save on a </p>
<p>monthly basis. If you have direct deposit, you can tell your employer to </p>
<p>deposit 90% of your check into your checking account and the remaining 10% </p>
<p>of your check into your savings account. This way the money is </p>
<p>automatically there and you do not have to touch it unless you need it. </p>
<p>Step Four &#8211; Create A Support System </p>
<p>It is also important for you to promote your interests or cause to uphold </p>
<p>your decision that has been made to keep it going with an organized or </p>
<p>established procedure that has been set. One way is to sit down and </p>
<p>explain to your spouse or significant other the realistic financial </p>
<p>picture and the objective plan that has been created in order to be well </p>
<p>prepared for any unforeseen expenses and to be able to weather the </p>
<p>Economic recession. Another good tip is to seek out the council of a Life </p>
<p>Coach or a Financial Advisor for your situation. By doing this, it will </p>
<p>help you tremendously.</p>
<p>Wrapping It All Up&#8230;</p>
<p>Once you analyze, create a budget, create a savings plan, and create a </p>
<p>solid support system, this will most definitely point you in the right </p>
<p>direction in order to ride this Economic recession wave until it improves. </p>
<p>Again, it is highly recommended that you seek the council of a Life Coach </p>
<p>and/or a Financial Advisior in order to support you in the best manner </p>
<p>possible. </p>
<p>I am Eldon Montgomery and I am a Motivational Speaker and a Life Coach. To </p>
<p>invite me to speak at your event, college or to obtain a Life Coach, </p>
<p>please feel free to visit http://www.eldonmontgomery.com or </p>
<p>http://www.montgomerylifecoaching.com</p>
<p><a href="http://www.montgomerylifecoaching.com">Montgomery Life Coaching, </p>
<p>Inc.</a></p>
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<link>http://lifeinperu.com/2009/12/03/1202/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wwelvaert</dc:creator>
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<p>Here in the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Incas-Empire-Blood-Gold-Horizons/dp/0500300402">Empire of blood and gold</a> the effects of the run-up in gold prices are decidedly mixed.  While gold certainly has been good for Peru&#8217;s macro-economic numbers, the current <a href="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/11/peru-madre-de-dios-gold-mining-as-seen.html">gold rush</a> in places such as the pristine jungle of Madre-de-Dios has undeniably had a significant environmental and social impact.</p>
<div id="attachment_1194" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/madre_de_dios_oro.jpg"><img src="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/madre_de_dios_oro.jpg?w=300" alt="Gold mining in the jungle of Madre-de-Dios, Peru" title="Gold mining in the jungle of Madre-de-Dios, Peru" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-1194" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Gold mining in the jungle of Madre-de-Dios, Peru</p></div>
<p>On the purely financial aspect, I tend to agree that <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/rolfe-winkler/2009/11/18/the-fed-is-sending-gold-higher/">gold will likely do no better than protect your purchasing power</a> in the long run.  Gold has no intrinsic value and I&#8217;d say the current run-up is largely due to lack of faith in paper currencies, since central banks are printing them up like Monopoly(tm) money, but you can&#8217;t expect artisan miners in Peru or the suits at the <a href="http://www.tmx.com/">TSX</a> to give 2 hoots about that.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s to Peru&#8217;s <a href="http://www.minem.gob.pe/">Ministerio de Energia y Minas</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Crucial Consumer Trends 2010]]></title>
<link>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/10-crucuial-consumer-trends-2010/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hkarner</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Reinier Evers (trendwatching.com) 1. BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL | Forget the recession: the societal ]]></description>
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<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=73984de28c&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">1. BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL</a></strong> &#124; Forget the recession: the societal changes that will dominate 2010 were set in motion way before we temporarily stared into the abyss. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=e94a21cc9b&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=cb78996b34&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">2. URBANY</a></strong> &#124; Urban culture is <em>the </em>culture. Extreme urbanization, in 2010, 2011, 2012 and far beyond will lead to more sophisticated and demanding consumers around the world. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=eebc880590&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=82359742f9&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">3. REAL-TIME REVIEWS</a></strong> &#124; Whatever it is you&#8217;re selling or launching in 2010, it <em>will</em> be reviewed &#8216;en masse&#8217;, live, 24/7. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=c52465ab01&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=7d8799b5cc&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">4. (F)LUXURY</a></strong> &#124; Closely tied to what constitutes status, which itself is becoming more fragmented, luxury will be whatever consumers want it to be over the next 12 months. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=0f8a0418ba&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=602acd6eb1&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">5. MASS MINGLING</a></strong> &#124; Online lifestyles are fueling &#8216;real world&#8217; meet-ups like there&#8217;s no tomorrow, shattering all predictions about a desk-bound, virtual, isolated future. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=8062ff35ea&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=eb34966e27&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">6. ECO-EASY</a></strong> &#124; To really reach some meaningful sustainability goals in 2010, corporates and governments will have to forcefully make it &#8216;easy&#8217; for consumers to be more green, by restricting the alternatives. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=d0b7d033fb&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=68bed07ff2&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">7. TRACKING &#38; ALERTING</a></strong> &#124; Tracking and alerting are the new search, and 2010 will see countless new INFOLUST services that will help consumers expand their web of control. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=5ebd40dfb1&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=76e51b7cb6&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">8. EMBEDDED GENEROSITY</a></strong> &#124; Next year, generosity as a trend will adapt to the zeitgeist, leading to more pragmatic and collaborative donation services for consumers. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=dfc29b7482&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=c942906557&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">9. PROFILE MYNING</a></strong> &#124; With hundreds of millions of consumers now nurturing some sort of online profile, 2010 will be a good year to help them make the most of it (financially), from intention-based models to digital afterlife services. <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=a5dbd822cc&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=c5d105728a&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1">10. MATURIALISM</a></strong> &#124; 2010 will be even more opinionated, risque, outspoken, if not &#8216;raw&#8217; than 2009; you can thank the anything-goes online world for that. Will your brand be as daring? <a href="http://trendwatching.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38f24c43b4de504a4b0d73609&#38;id=7035b6b240&#38;e=d3b4fcfcf1"><strong>More »</strong></a></p>
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<link>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/12/01/does-the-recession-have-effect-on-translation-industry-in-india-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lyric Labs</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Communication is very important for the success of any business. Communication means the way of shar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Communication is very important for the success of any business. Communication means the way of sharing information with others. It is essential to communicate with the potential customers in their own language for the success of the business. The possibility of a global market free of language barriers is still a goal to achieve in the foreign trade. Today it is easy to run a successful global business irrespective of the culture, language, politics or social situations with the help of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translators</a>. Translation in India is a very important service sector which invites millions of income to the country. The language market in India has expanded in the late nineties especially due to the innovation in communication technologies both on and offline.  Many organizations including the travel and tourism sector find the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation services</a> quite valuable. The need for translators and interpreters are high in foreign trade as well as for immigration.</p>
<p>In the global market, it is essential for a company to advertise their product in multiple languages. It is estimated that the Indian <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> market is approximately $500 million due to the globalization of business. Many multinational companies are setting up businesses in India these days and they have realized the need to speak the local language to increase business. Many richest countries in the world are in the midst of recession these days. Despite global recession, the language translation industry has set forth big growth in India. Still many translation businesses and freelance <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translators</a> have been affecting the impact of recession. As the global meltdown keeps affecting the industrial growth badly, the tourist inflow of the country has declined tremendously which indirectly affected the translation industry too.</p>
<p>Many companies have attempted to use their own employees who know a different language and capable of doing translation due to the recession. Still companies with international reputation need to have high quality translation to maintain their image to attract more business by spending the money to accommodate potential customers. Though the translation industry in India is growing, the lack of professionalism and commitment of many individual linguists have been affecting the quality of the final product. The <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> is not limited to reaching potential customer only. Businesses generally find savings by using the native language of the country where they operate. Colleges are also using the service of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation agencies</a> to translate their brochures and applications to attract international students. As more non-English users connect to the internet, businesses are realizing the importance of translate their product information in multiple languages.</p>
<p>Trade sources believe that the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> industry in India will be growing tremendously over the next 5 years fueled by demand for business in emerging market languages. Most of the clients are from outside of India who is showing interest in translating the related text into several widely spoken Indian languages. But due to the global recession, many companies who have taken the service of translators has cutting down the translation expenditure.  The value of translation is difficult to ignore even during this global economy recession. Many top level businessmen believe that the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation company</a> is going to get more growth as more companies are setting up global business.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Peter Drucker and Enterprise 2.0 | Drucker Centenary]]></title>
<link>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/peter-drucker-and-enterprise-2-0-drucker-centenary/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hkarner</dc:creator>
<guid>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/peter-drucker-and-enterprise-2-0-drucker-centenary/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Blog1185: November 19, 2009; Posted by Greg Lloyd; Earlier this week Oliver Marks wrote an excellent]]></description>
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<td>Earlier this week Oliver Marks wrote an excellent post on his Collaboration 2.0 Blog: <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=1049&#38;tag=trunk;content">&#8216;The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer&#8217; &#8211; Peter Drucker Centenary</a>. Oliver celebrates the Nov 19, 2009 Centenary of Peter Drucker&#8217;s birth with two of his favorite Drucker bumper sticker quotes: <em>&#8221; ‘Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes‘ and ‘There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job‘, which somehow seem to fit together very well.&#8221; </em>then uses these quotes as context to discuss the disturbing findings of the <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=728">2009 Shift Index</a> report and followup analysis by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davidson of the <a href="http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GX/global/press/innovation/article/410e388a90ffd110VgnVCM100000ba42f00aRCRD.htm">Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation</a>. Please read Oliver&#8217;s full post &#8211; you&#8217;ll like it. Oliver was also used kind words to build on my earlier <a href="http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1185&#38;rs=//link%20Blog1163%20%27%7c%27">Enterprise 2.0 Schism</a> post. Here&#8217;s a slightly extended version of the comment I posted in reply, along with my two favorite Drucker bumper sticker quotes and several links to celebrate Drucker&#8217;s birth and life.</td>
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<td><!--more-->Thank you for the kind words and for pointing out the HBR Drucker Centenary issue. My &#8220;Enterprise 2.0 Schism&#8221; post was fun to write &#8211; with tongue firmly in cheek &#8211; as you note. But it also expresses some serious beliefs.</td>
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<td>For me the key Drucker quote is: <em>&#8220;The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.&#8221;</em></td>
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<td>The scale shift that ubiquitous Web tech enables as well as bottom up participation in E2.0 initiatives are both necessary &#8211; but neither are sufficient to distinguish &#8220;Enterprise 2.0&#8243; from the Web we see and use every day outside work. I believe the difference lies in the shared purpose which drives people to create or join an enterprise and work together over time, along with the need to manage use of scarce resources to a shared end.</td>
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<td>By definition an enterprise is a purposeful undertaking that generally requires many hands, expertise and capital that aren&#8217;t easy for a non-purposeful group to gain and apply over time. This make the &#8220;social ecology&#8221; of an enterprise different from other groups.</td>
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<td>In saying &#8220;2.0 modifies how the Enterprise works, not the technology,&#8221; I take the rhetorical position that the technology which underlies E2.0 &#8211; specifically the ubiquitous Web as a platform &#8211; is a <a href="http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1185&#38;rs=//link%20Blog384%20%27necessary%20enabler%27">necessary enabler</a> which provides the first chance to practically apply many of the principals of open work, distributed work and effective collaboration over time that Drucker and <a href="http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1185&#38;rs=//link%20Blog50%20%27Engelbart%27">Engelbart</a> have advocated for the past fifty years.</td>
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<td>I believe that emergent phenomena which Prof Andrew McAfee includes as a core part of his <a href="http://andrewmcafee.org/2009/08/defining-moment/">definition of Enterprise 2.0</a> are significant and different in kind and structure from anything seen before in any enterprise &#8211; based on the speed, scale, simplicity and ubiquity of the technology combined with expectations and experience <a href="http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1185&#38;rs=//link%20Blog1163.028%20%27grounded%20in%20the%20public%20Web%27">grounded in the public Web</a>. Speculating on how management could embrace but not squash these phenomena to &#8220;create more customers&#8221; is a good Druckerian question.</td>
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<td>But I also believe that the most likely path to large scale adoption and use of this enabling technology will come from small to mid size groups within an organization who <em>intentionally</em> use it to improve their own ability to get work done &#8211; rather than in direct pursuit of emergent benefits. They can (and by mandate <em>should</em>) open the direct and indirect record of their work to others who then may become better aware of what their enterprise plans to do, is doing or has done &#8211; and who knows what. I really like Jon Udell&#8217;s term for this principal: <a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/04/28/data-driven-career-discovery/">Observable Work</a>.</td>
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<td>I believe this bottom up and pragmatic adoption model parallels lessons learned from bottom up Knowledge Management versus the failure of top down KM, and lessons learned from the history of the <a href="http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1185&#38;rs=//link%20Blog936%20%27simple,%20practical%20Web%20itself%27">simple, practical Web itself</a> versus failed dreams of more sophisticated universal hypertextuality.</td>
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<td>The benefits that are new in kind are emergent, but the path to broad adoption and acceptance will be based on mutual consent, compelling benefits to those who do the work, leadership, and experimentation in activities that have a clear business purpose &#8211; designing, building, selling, maintaining products, providing services to clients, customers and partners.</td>
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<td>It&#8217;s presumptuous to guess what Peter Drucker would say about the relationship between the technology, techniques and phenomena we call Enterprise 2.0 and its potential to change the patterns of work and management of an enterprise.</td>
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<td>But I believe it&#8217;s fair to ask: &#8220;What sort of hard questions might Peter Drucker ask?&#8221; David Rendall (of the UK&#8217;s National Health Service, Orkney) tossed a nice Druckerian question to Carmen Medina during the followup discussion to her <a href="http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1185&#38;rs=//link%20Public1701%20%27Enterprise%202.0%20and%20the%20Context%20of%20Work%27">Enterprise 2.0 and the Context of Work</a> keynote at TUG 2009 last month:</td>
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<blockquote><p><a title="#tug2009" href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23tug2009">#tug2009</a> Question for Carmen: how do those collaborative networks balance with clear lines of responsibility e.g. in healthcare? 10:06 AM Oct 14th from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a> <a title="davidrendall" href="http://twitter.com/davidrendall">@davidrendall</a></p></blockquote>
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<td>For example, the decision on course of treatment for a particular patient is yes or no and may be life and death. You want many people to be able to contribute to that decision &#8211; including the patient &#8211; but ultimately someone has to accept responsibility for that outcome. In all enterprises decisions between mutually exclusive courses of action need to be made &#8211; up to and including &#8220;bet the company&#8221; decisions.</td>
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<td>See the <a href="http://tractiontug.blip.tv/file/2775599/">video</a> (time 68:20) for David&#8217;s question. Then follow Carmen&#8217;s response and a fascinating discussion that includes FAA experience in understanding and mandating training on <a href="http://www.airlinesafety.com/editorials/editorial3.htm">cockpit resource management</a> to make air crews aware of how to communicate effectively in high stress situations. Planes have literally flown into mountains when a junior officer was not willing or able to alert a senior pilot to a critical issue while the senior pilot was dealing with the same or an unrelated emergency.</td>
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<td>Drucker would hold management ultimately responsibility for the course of action and outcome. But how to make best use of the experience and judgement of a distributed, experienced and self-directed organization is not a simple question, particularly in a crisis such as the mortgage credit crisis (or <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/dvi.html#south-sea">South Sea Bubble</a>) where <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/04/011404.asp?viewed=1">madness</a> rather than wisdom of crowds is part of the problem. In my opinion Drucker was often at his best when expressing and defending contrarian opinions that he considered <em>morally</em> right as well as intellectually correct. See <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/10/schumpeter-keynes-economics-biz-cz_pd_1011schumpeter.html">Schumpeter Keynes</a> which Drucker wrote on the Keynes Centenary.</td>
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<td>Drucker makes the point that innovation in how an enterprise (profit or non-profit) works &#8211; how it provides motivation, support, leadership and resources to its members to &#8220;Create a Customer&#8221; &#8211; is as important as innovation in whatever else an enterprise delivers.</td>
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<td>I hope we&#8217;ll see more good work (like John Hagel &#38; John Seely Brown&#8217;s <a href="http://www.edgeperspectives.com/index3.shtml">The Only Sustainable Edge</a>) that focuses on E2.0 style business innovation based on Drucker&#8217;s understanding of what drives success.</td>
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<td>PS &#8211; My second Peter Drucker bumper sticker quote for the day: <em>&#8220;A manager&#8217;s task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant&#8211;and that applies fully as much to the manager&#8217;s boss as it applies to the manager&#8217;s subordinates.&#8221;</em></td>
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<div><a href="/traction/permalink/Blog1163">Blog1163</a>: November 9, 2009; Posted by Greg Lloyd; <a href="/traction/read?proj=Blog&#38;edate=All&#38;find=(t%20content)&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1163#blog1163attachments">1 Attachment</a></div>
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<td>I have to confess that I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching recent rounds of Enterprise 2.0 discussion and mud wrestling. The fact that so many people enjoy debating definitions, values, doctrinal principals &#8211; even the existence of Enterprise 2.0 &#8211; <span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong>makes me think that E2.0 might best be framed as a religious debate</strong></span>. With that in mind, I&#8217;d like to introduce a new and exciting element: schism.</td>
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<td>I hereby declare myself an <span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong>Enterprise 2.0 <em>Strict Druckerian</em>. I believe that &#8220;2.0&#8243; should be considered a modifier of <em>Enterprise</em> rather than an allusion to mere<em> Web 2.0</em> technology &#8211; which is what an Enterprise 2.0 <em>Strict Technarian</em> would have you believe.<!--more--></strong></span></td>
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<td>I further declare: No, it is <em>not</em> &#8220;all about the people&#8221; &#8211; which is what an Enterprise 2.0 <em><strong>Strict Proletarian</strong></em> would have you believe. Without the enabling technology of the Web, plus search engines and other affordances based on Sir Tim Berners-Lee&#8217;s <a href="/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;edate=All&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1163&#38;find=(t%20content)&#38;rs=//link%20Blog936%20%27innovation%27">innovation</a>, the Strict Proletarian would find it difficult to fit the inhabitants of McAfee&#8217;s <a href="http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/11/how_to_hit_the_enterprise_20_bullseye/">inner, middle and outer rings</a> into the same room, get them to participate in the same conference call, or exhibit their &#8220;emergent&#8221; behaviors using typewriters, copy machines, faxes and email. Speed, scale and connection patterns matter and the technology that spans these barriers is neither trivial nor insignificant to the phenomena Strict Proletarians value.</td>
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<td>I believe that although both technology and broad bottom-up participation are necessary to achieve the Drukerian vision, neither element alone is sufficient to achieve the noble end of re-engineering how ordinary people work together to achieve the ends of enterprises they choose to affiliate with.</td>
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<td>As <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker">Peter Drucker</a> said: &#8220;The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.&#8221; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Management-Responsibilities-Practices-Peter-Drucker/dp/0887306152" target="_blank">Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices</a> Chapter 28, The Spirit of Performance, p. 361 (1974)</td>
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<td>I nominate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker">Peter Drucker</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart">Douglas Engelbart</a> as Patron Saints of Enterprise 2.0 (Strict Druckerian). If you don&#8217;t know who either of these gentlemen are, I suggest you click their Wikipedia links for two pretty good short biographies.</td>
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<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker">Peter Drucker</a> constantly advised businesses to give employees direct control over their own work and environment, with teams of &#8220;knowledge workers&#8221; responsible for work toward goals stated as broad business objectives rather than prescriptive plans. Drucker stated that management could only achieve sustainable profits by treating people as an enterprise&#8217;s most valued resources, not as costs. In later years he described his role as &#8220;social ecologist&#8221; rather than management consultant.</td>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Marketing alone does not make a business enterprise. In a static economy there are no business enterprises. There are not even businesspeople. The middleman of a static society is a broker who receives his compensation in the form of a fee, or a spectator who creates no value.</p>
<p>A business enterprise can exist only in an expanding economy, or at least in one that considers change both natural and acceptable. And business is the specific organ of growth, expansion and change.</p>
<p>The second function of a business is, therefore innovation &#8211; the provision of different economic satisfactions. It is not enough for the business to provide just any economic good and services; it must provide better and more economic ones. It is not necessary for a business to grow bigger; but it is necessary that it constantly grow better&#8230;</p>
<p>Above all innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than technology. Non technological innovations &#8211; social or economic innovations &#8211; are at least as important as technological ones.</p>
<p>In the organization of a business enterprise, innovation can no more be considered a separate function than marketing. It is not confined to engineering or research, but extends across all parts of the business, all functions, all activities.&#8221; Peter Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1974)</p>
<p>At a 1934 Cambridge seminar by John Maynard Keynes, &#8220;I suddenly realized that Keynes and all the brilliant economic students in the room were interested in the behavior of commodities, while I was interested in the behavior of people.&#8221; Peter Drucker, The Ecological Vision, p. 75-76, (1993)</p>
<p>&#8220;A manager&#8217;s task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant&#8211;and that applies fully as much to the manager&#8217;s boss as it applies to the manager&#8217;s subordinates.&#8221; Peter Drucker, Managing for the Future: The 1990&#8217;s and Beyond (1992)</p></blockquote>
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<td>In an equally distinguished career, Douglas Engelbart has been immensely influential in creating and inspiring the creation of technology we use today (<a href="/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;edate=All&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1163&#38;find=(t%20content)&#38;rs=//link%20Blog912%20%27far%20beyond%27">far beyond</a> his invention of the mouse), but Doug&#8217;s goals have always been expressed in terms of improving the abilities of groups to address complex, difficult and important problems:</td>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;By &#8216;augmenting human intellect&#8217; we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. Increased capability in this respect is taken to mean a mixture of the following: more-rapid comprehension, better comprehension, the possibility of gaining a useful degree of comprehension in a situation that previously was too complex, speedier solutions, better solutions, and the possibility of finding solutions to problems that before seemed insoluble. And by &#8216;complex situations&#8217; we include the professional problems of diplomats, executives, social scientists, life scientists, physical scientists, attorneys, designers&#8211;whether the problem situation exists for twenty minutes or twenty years. We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations. We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human &#8216;feel for a situation&#8217; usefully co-exist with powerful concepts, streamlined terminology and notation, sophisticated methods, and high-powered electronic aids.&#8221; Douglas Engelbart <a href="http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html#1">Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework</a>, Introduction, (1962)</p></blockquote>
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<td>On the term &#8220;social software&#8221;, I believe it&#8217;s fair to blame it on Clay Shirky &#8211; who had the misfortune to introduce a term that&#8217;s perfectly respectable for a sociologist who studies how technology influences group behavior:</td>
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<blockquote><p>“It&#8217;s software that supports group interaction. I also want to emphasize, although that&#8217;s a fairly simple definition, how radical that pattern is. The Internet supports lots of communications patterns, principally point-to-point and two-way, one-to-many outbound, and many-to-many two-way.” − Clay Shirky, <a href="http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a> O’Reilly Conference (April 2003)</p></blockquote>
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<td>If the term &#8220;social&#8221; must be deprecated, I hope its banishment takes with it all <em>Social X</em> marketing buzzwords, job titles, twitter tags, and the well-earned disco ball reputations of the so-called Social Media gurus.</td>
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<td>On &#8220;Return on investment&#8221; debates, I believe that Taylorist time-and-motion studies would show gains that typically exceed the modest costs of introducing and using Enterprise 2.0 software, but studies for knowledge work where the value is not transactional (time to process a purchase order) are difficult to design and far too easy to fudge. Large scale experimental studies based on overall business success are even more problematic &#8211; except in hindsight.</td>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;A very important surgeon delivered a talk on the large number of successful procedures for vascular reconstruction. At the end of the lecture, a young student at the back of the room timidly asked, &#8216;Do you have any controls?&#8217; The great man hit the podium and said, &#8216;Do you mean, &#8220;Did I not operate on half the patients?&#8221;&#8216; &#8230; The hall grew very quiet and the voice at the back of the room very hesitantly replied, &#8216;Yes, that&#8217;s what I had in mind.&#8217; The surgeon&#8217;s fist really came down as he thundered, &#8216;Of course not, that would have doomed half of them to their death!&#8217;&#8230;The room was then quiet, and one could scarcely hear the small voice ask, &#8216;Which half?&#8217;&#8221; &#8211; Dr. E. E. Peacock, Jr., University of Arizona College of Medicine; quoted in Medical World News, p. 45 (September 1, 1972) quoted by Edward Tufte in <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_be">Beautiful Evidence</a> (2006)</p></blockquote>
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<td>I believe the value of Enterprise 2.0 techniques comes from small to mid size groups within an organization who intentionally (not emergently) improve their own ability to get work done, while opening the direct and indirect record of their work to others who then may become better aware of what their enterprise plans to do, is doing or has done &#8211; and who knows what.</td>
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<td>Finally &#8211; having demonstrated the unerring truth of the <em><strong>Strict Druckerian</strong></em> position regarding the nature of Enterprise 2.0, I declare both the <em><strong>Strict Technarian</strong></em> and <em><strong>Strict Proletarian</strong></em> interpretations to be false, heretical, and anathema. Living in our tolerant and civilized times, I found it difficult to imagine an appropriate way to separate those who obstinately cling to these heretical beliefs, until I ran across this nugget:</td>
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<blockquote><p>Nike does &#8220;email archeology&#8221; to decompose email thread to expose one part of a specific collaboration. :&#62;) #e2conf <a href="http://twitter.com/lehaweslive">@lehawselive</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/lehaweslive/status/5430665445">(4:20pm Nov 4, 2009)</a></p></blockquote>
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<td>So if you don&#8217;t agree with me, I hope you spend the the rest of your corporate life decomposing email threads from your corporate archive into Google Waves or Traction TeamPage comments where others can benefit from your labor if not from your ideas.</td>
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<td>See <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1228">Enterprise 2.0: What a Crock</a> &#8211; Dennis Howlett Aug 26, 2009</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.gilyehuda.com/2009/08/31/denial-is-a-river-full-of-crocks/">Denial is a river full of crocks</a> &#8211; Gil Yehuda August 31, 2009</td>
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<td><a href="http://andrewmcafee.org/2009/09/e20-is-a-crock-discuss/">Enterprise 2.0 is a Crock: Discuss</a> &#8211; Andrew McAfee Sep 2, 2009</td>
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<td>[ And so much more. It's the Web - you could look it up - or follow the fun on Twitter ]</td>
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<td>See also <a href="/traction/read?type=single&#38;edate=All*1%2d1&#38;proj=Blog&#38;rec=1071">Blog1071: Having versus Using Enterprise 2.0 Software</a><br />
<a href="/traction/read?type=single&#38;edate=All*1%2d1&#38;proj=Blog&#38;rec=936">Blog936: Reinventing the Web</a><br />
<a href="/traction/read?type=single&#38;edate=All*1%2d1&#38;proj=Blog&#38;rec=912">Blog912: Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 &#124; Forty years after the Mother of All Demos</a> &#8211; Doug Engelbart<br />
<a href="/traction/read?type=single&#38;edate=All*1%2d1&#38;proj=Blog&#38;rec=640">Blog640: Connections</a> &#8211; Clay Shirky and Social Software<br />
<a href="/traction/read?type=single&#38;edate=All*1%2d1&#38;proj=Blog&#38;rec=597">Blog597: The Rise of Enterprise 2.0, Andrew McAfee &#124; Video &#124; Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2008 Tokyo</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/10/schumpeter-keynes-economics-biz-cz_pd_1011schumpeter.html">Schumpeter and Keynes</a>, Peter Drucker, Forbes magazine (cover story) May 23, 1983 &#8211; This is great!</td>
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<td>This was far to much fun to write. I hope I haven&#8217;t needlessly offended anyone, but I&#8217;m also happy to defend the essence of the Druckerian position in more serious terms; Enterprise 2.0 is a big tent and I hope it stays that way.</td>
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<td>I also value the term Enterprise 2.0 for a reason over and above the Druckerian fantasy. Unlike terms invented to express a desire to sell software to managers (X Management &#8211; you do want to manage X don&#8217;t you?), Enterprise 2.0 expresses a simple, grounded wish:</td>
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<td>&#8220;I wish the software I used every day at work allowed me to find what I want; discover what I need to know &#8211; along with surprises; and connect with people I don&#8217;t even know to get my job done, learn more, and work in an enjoyable place.&#8221; or <a href="/traction/post?proj=Blog&#38;edate=All&#38;type=single&#38;rec=1163&#38;find=(t%20content)&#38;rs=//link%20Blog713%20%27much%20more%20narrowly%27">much more narrowly</a>: &#8220;Why can I find what I need with Google on the Web, but have to pull teeth to find anything useful when I go to work?&#8221;</td>
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<td>This is a grounded wish since everyone in business has a direct basis for comparison &#8211; what they or their children see, use and enjoy on the public Web every day. This doesn&#8217;t mean that expectations, behavior, and (uh sociology) of the public Web and the internal/external web of connections used in an enterprise are the same &#8211; but they are comparable with respect to desired experience.</td>
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<td>To the extent that corporate barriers dash expectations, read Peter Drucker on how to get rid of those barriers or find a better employer.</td>
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<td>To the extent that enterprise technology differs with respect to needs for privacy, finding information in a link-deprived environment and sharing access to confidential sources or legacy applications, Enterprise 2.0 offers the opportunity for vendors and community projects to create products that respond to that simple, grounded wish and measure the difference.</td>
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<td>I&#8217;m not sure where <a href="http://andrewmcafee.org/blog/">Professor Andrew McAfee</a> sees himself in this ecclesiastical model. I&#8217;d be happy to support his claim to any sub-numinous position</td>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<p> I’ve been thinking about what to write in the wake of the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference. One more summary seems unnecessary, since there have been so many good ones already. And the debates are starting to feel a little trumped up and warmed over, and so less fun to wade back into. And then I got inspiration from Greg Lloyd, President and co-founder of Traction Software and longtime technologist. In addition to running his company Greg finds time to write a great blog, and his post after the conference was called <span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong><span style="color:#33cccc;">“Enterprise 2.0 Schism.” </span></strong></span>In it, he likens the current E2.0 controversies to a religious schism, and divides the community into three sects: <span style="color:#33cccc;"><strong>Strict Proletarians, who believe it’s all about the people, Strict Technarians, who believe it’s all about the technologies, and Strict Druckerians, who “believe that “2.0″ should be considered a modifier of Enterprise rather than an allusion to mere Web 2.0 technology…”</strong></span></p>
<p><!--more-->Lloyd writes with a light touch and is clearly being a bit tongue in cheek, but he’s also making a smart and serious point. Two of them, in fact. The first is that advocates of Enterprise 2.0 really do believe different things about the phenomenon, and these differences matter. His second point is an argument for the Druckerian point of view: that the use of emergent social software platforms (ESSPs) is going to change organizations so much that a new version number is warranted. This got me thinking about what I believed. I’ve been using “Enterprise 2.0” in Lloyd’s Technarian sense — as a reference to the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and approaches by enterprises. And do I also believe that such adoption is going to change companies? Sure – virtually all technology adoptions do, to some extent. Do I believe that it’s going to change them enough to require a new version number? Nope. I just think that’s too strong a claim. Let me try to explain why. I yield to almost no one in my belief about the power and utility of ESSPs, but I just don’t think they’re going to transform the structure or purpose of the enterprise. As I wrote earlier, I don’t see E2.0’s tools, approaches, and philosophies making obsolete managers, hierarchies, org charts, and formal cross functional business processes. It’s a rainy fall day in Boston, and after a wet walk into work I’m sitting here realizing that I need new boots. So maybe later today I’ll call up L.L. Bean and order a pair of Maine Hunting Shoes (Suave? No. Dry? Yes.). I’ll talk to a customer service rep who will enter my order into an enterprise system. This system spans the call center, the warehouse, the credit card company and, in all likelihood, the marketing department. The people working in each of these areas have relatively stable job titles and descriptions that are tied to pay and benefits. And they all have bosses who manage and develop people, put together plans and budgets, and take responsibility for performance and improvement. None of this is going to be swept away or rendered obsolete by the advent of ESSPs, even after they’re fully deployed and embraced. We can tell stories about how the new tools enable amorphous / gestalt / collectivist forms of organization that have no set structures and make their way through the environment much like slime molds do, but these stories are pure speculation, grounded in hope rather than reality or experience. They’re a type of cyberpunk science fiction (as an aside, I find it really interesting and telling that the best cyberpunk, like Neuromancer and Snow Crash, conjures up worlds where big formal organizations are more dominant, not less.). I want to be clear: Lloyd’s post is fantastic: grounded and very thoughtful. He’s not in the enterprise-as-slime-mold camp. And I definitely agree with him that Enterprise 2.0 is a big deal. So what’s the right way to describe its impact? Here’s my take: ESSPs will have about as big an impact on the informal processes of the organization as large-scale commercial enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, Supply Chain, etc.) have had on the formal processes. This is not a conservative statement. Enterprise systems have been a huge deal for organizations. They’ve turned reengineering from a whiteboard exercise into an unignorable reality for many, many companies. And Drucker was right when he said that “Reengineering is new, and it has to be done.” It’s not a coincidence that productivity in the US really accelerated starting in the mid 1990s, just as enterprise systems started spreading, and accelerated most in the industries that spent the most on IT. And a great study by Erik Brynjolfsson, DJ Wu, and Sinan Aral which I wrote about here, found strong evidence that ERP adoption leads to performance improvement. I believe that Enterprise 2.0 will be as big a deal for corporate performance and productivity. I believe this because I believe that the informal organization is as important as the formal one for getting work done (do you agree?) and that we have historically had lousy technologies for supporting the work of the informal organization (especially outside our immediate circle of strong ties). With the arrival of ESSPs, the tools available to the informal / emergent organization have gone from lousy to excellent, just like commercial enterprise systems advanced the formal organization’s toolkit from lousy to excellent. So while I don’t think that the impact of ESSP’s is profound enough to warrant a new version number for the enterprise, I do think that we’re on the brink of a sustained period of corporate innovation, improvement, and productivity growth enabled by these new tools. I take some comfort from the fact that some very sharp and experienced corporate leaders like Cisco’s John Chambers seem to feel the same. Do you? In your opinion, what’s the right way to think about the broad impact of ESSPs? Will they lead to Enterprise, version 2.0, or just to Enterprise 2.0? Leave a comment, please, and let us know.</p>
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<p>Now a day more and more business all over the world tries to reach overseas customers. This globalizes economy plays a significant role in translation service. It is essential to communicate with the potential customers in their native language. Through communication with the foreign customers in their own language it helps to gain their trust and business. It is not possible always to hire different staffs to translate and communicate with the foreign clients. The art of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> demands more attention as it paves way for global interaction and offers an excellent opportunity to establish socio-cultural bridge between countries even though it can be a tough job. There is no special education required for translation yet the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translators</a> must have the familiarity with the source language, target language and the capability to perform the translation job successfully without losing the basic concept.</p>
<p>When more and more people doing business in different countries destroying all the national and geographic boundaries, still, certain factors affecting the smooth flow of business. Language is one such significant barrier affecting the globalization of trade. It is impossible for a firm or person to master all the foreign languages to offer their services and products everywhere. But they can do that in the local language of the customer with the help of professional <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translators</a> and interpreters. The service of translators is more critical when the businessman in a business trip where communication is a big problem. The main reason for providing <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> work to the agencies or freelance translators is to enable to communicate with the languages that are not compatible with. The professional translating agencies providing escort service along with interpretation. They usually send their representative to receive at the airport and stay with the customer until the job is completed.</p>
<p>In the present day circumstances due to the advancement of technology the service of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translators</a> are not only taken by countries and societies to interact with each other but individuals also to contact with members of other communities and societies. The translation helps to know about the developments in communication and technology and keep abreast of the latest discoveries in the various fields of knowledge and also have access to the literature of various languages all over the world. Many government agencies and businesses accommodating translating services are provided to the immigrants to overcome the language barriers. There is a great need for <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> in the field of education, mass communication, science and technology, trade and business, literature, religion and tourism. Translation is art which needs proficiency in language, cultural background and writing flair. The <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation service</a> is a growing industry globally that helps to earn a decent and stable income.</p>
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<link>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/11/28/how-does-translation-helps-in-automobiles-industry-in-india/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The development and advancement of science in usually tries to spread its wings in all aspect throughout the world. In it’s develop and growth language never been a hurdle with the presence of language interpreters and <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translators</a>. The major technological development happening in the field of automobile industry all over the world really paves way for a great need and demand in translation for automobiles manuals and other related documents. <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">Translation agency</a> hires normally the good translators who can translate automobiles documents giving due regards to the specific industry related terminology and describe electronic systems, mechanical, methods and processes into source and given target languages. The automobile manual translators dealing with automobiles manuals should understand requirements of the dealers, manufacturers, and suppliers of the given automobiles sector. The <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translator</a> should be also able to support clients throughout the major and minor areas of automotive supply chain. The translators should be able to understand the details regarding automotive suppliers, advertising agencies, dealers, engineering firms, Parts manufactures etc.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> for automotive manuals includes master plan manuals, instruction manuals, assembling manual, maintenance manual, Diagnosis manual, Marketing brochures, sales deal, Service Manuals, Service Bulletin Communications, E-Learning Training, Training Manual, Catalog, Marketing and Promotional, Warranty books, guarantee books, Product packaging, Event Materials, promotion leaf etc. The treatment given to each manual will differ according to the importance of the subject matter of the given automobile sector. The automobile manual translator should always use the simple language while dealing with the manuals. Diagrams and charts will be helpful for the better understanding of the given subject matter along with the explanation.</p>
<p>The translation of technical assembling of automobile manual plays a key role in the automobile sector. It involves the usage of simple and apt words of the given language so that the working class labors can easily understand the technical minute details. The automobile manual <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translator</a> should always be aware of the latest development happening in the field of the automobile sector. Presentation of the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> for automobile manual in a chronological and brief manner with in-depth meaning of the given subject matter will really benefit the skilled traders using the manual. The automobile manual translators should have access to translation memories, large dictionaries and terminologies, ensuring that automobile manual translation are both accurate and consistent across even the largest projects.</p>
<p>The privatization and liberalization of the Indian economy has really paved way for many multinational corporations to venture into India and establish its unit here. The availability of foreign language <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translator</a> and interpreter has made the work much easier. <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">Translation</a> of automobile documents has really smoothed the activities in the automobile sector. Translation also plays a vital role in the advertisement and promotional aspects too.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Peruvian economists]]></title>
<link>http://lifeinperu.com/2009/11/21/peruvian-economists/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wwelvaert</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lifeinperu.com/2009/11/21/peruvian-economists/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really a shame this should be a headline in Peru&#8217;s newspaper of record, El Comercio]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It&#8217;s really a shame this should be a headline in Peru&#8217;s newspaper of record, <a href="http://elcomercio.pe/impresa/edicion/2009-11-21/ecpr211109b1">El Comercio</a>.</p>
<div style="margin-left:25px;"><em>&#8220;Economists: continued growth is not possible unless poverty is reduced&#8221;.</em></div>
<p><a href="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ecpr211109b11.jpg"><img src="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ecpr211109b11.jpg?w=170" alt="Peruvian economists" title="Peruvian economists" width="170" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1172" /></a></p>
<p>Just saying, that one is right up there with <em>&#8220;the sky is blue&#8221;</em> and <em>&#8220;Bill Gates not hurting for money this week&#8221;</em>.  </p>
<p>But such is the dilemma that is Peru: for the suits in Lima economic growth has long been detached from quality of life for ordinary Peruvians, especially in the provinces.  Take for example this chart from official INEI statistics, during a period where GDP grew at a 9% annual clip. </p>
<p><a href="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/caretas_2015_b2.jpg"><img src="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/caretas_2015_b2.jpg?w=300" alt="Peru quality of life" title="Peru quality of life" width="300" height="211" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1173" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&#38;source=hp&#38;q=chullo&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;ei=kI8IS-2CEMKVtgfIv_SyCg&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=image_result_group&#38;ct=title&#38;resnum=1&#38;ved=0CBAQsAQwAA">Chullo </a> tip to <a href="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/11/peru-viva-investment-grade-part-14279.html">IKN</a>.</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;m not pretending to have an easy solution for the quality of life issues in Peru, but hopefully some of the suits in Lima will start to seriously look beyond the neo-liberal dogma that <em>&#8220;what&#8217;s good for business is good for everyone&#8221;</em>.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll propose a new ideology for economists in Peru: <strong>&#8220;do what&#8217;s good for the people and economic growth will follow&#8221;</strong>.</p>
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<li>Stimulate the economy in the provinces</li>
<li>Improve the infrastructure in Lima&#8217;s slums and in the provinces</li>
<li>Respect labor and environmental protections</li>
<li>Reduce bureaucracy and hold the bureaucrats accountable</li>
<li>&#8230;.</li>
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<p>The economy in Peru is too dependent on tourism and export of base metals.  While those are great sources of revenue, the suits who run Peru should look at adding technology, manufacturing and quality services, the types of employment that would raise the standard of living of the average Peruvian worker.  </p>
<p>At the end of the day, the Peruvian economy is the total of what the average Peruvian worker contributes to it, and expects to receive from it.  Not in monetary &#8220;funny printed paper&#8221; terms, but in terms of products and services.  It&#8217;s a no-brainer, focus on the quality of life of ordinary Peruvians and economic growth must follow.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[X-Organisation Berlin]]></title>
<link>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/x-organisation-berlin/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Florian M. Stieger</dc:creator>
<guid>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/x-organisation-berlin/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hm, bin gerade auf dem Kongress X-Organisation in Berlin. Heute ist der 2te Tag, gestern sind mir me]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hm, bin gerade auf dem Kongress <a href="http://www.x-organisation.de">X-Organisation</a> in Berlin. Heute ist der 2te Tag, gestern sind mir mehr Fragen offen geblieben als ich Antworten bekommen hätte. Bis auf Prof. Zeilinger (wie er das immer wieder schafft Quantenphysik auch für mich verständlich zu erklären) war das Programm bisher eher bescheiden . Mag vor allem daran liegen, dass hier einfach zu viele BeraterInnen sind&#8230; Und ganz traurig ist, dass alle zwar den Mund von Web 2.0 und neuen Technologien voll nehmen, aber kein einziger Tweet, kein Blogeintrag oder zeitgleich online passiert. Also gut für mich: die neue Generation von Beratern hat eine schöne Zukunft. ganz nach Lou Reed: its the beginning of a great adventure.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Does the recession have effect on translation industry in India?]]></title>
<link>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/11/18/does-the-recession-have-effect-on-translation-industry-in-india/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lyric Labs</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.lyriclabs.com/2009/11/18/does-the-recession-have-effect-on-translation-industry-in-india/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Communication is very important for the success of any business. Communication means the way of shar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Communication is very important for the success of any business. Communication means the way of sharing information with others. It is essential to communicate with the potential customers in their own language for the success of the business. The possibility of a global market free of language barriers is still a goal to achieve in the foreign trade. Today it is easy to run a successful global business irrespective of the culture, language, politics or social situations with the help of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translators</a>. Translation in India is a very important service sector which invites millions of income to the country. The language market in India has expanded in the late nineties especially due to the innovation in communication technologies both on and offline.  Many organizations including the travel and tourism sector find the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation services</a> quite valuable. The need for translators and interpreters are high in foreign trade as well as for immigration.</p>
<p>In the global market, it is essential for a company to advertise their product in multiple languages. It is estimated that the Indian <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> market is approximately $500 million due to the globalization of business. Many multinational companies are setting up businesses in India these days and they have realized the need to speak the local language to increase business. Many richest countries in the world are in the midst of recession these days. Despite global recession, the language translation industry has set forth big growth in India. Still many translation businesses and freelance <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translators</a> have been affecting the impact of recession. As the global meltdown keeps affecting the industrial growth badly, the tourist inflow of the country has declined tremendously which indirectly affected the translation industry too.</p>
<p>Many companies have attempted to use their own employees who know a different language and capable of doing translation due to the recession. Still companies with international reputation need to have high quality translation to maintain their image to attract more business by spending the money to accommodate potential customers. Though the translation industry in India is growing, the lack of professionalism and commitment of many individual linguists have been affecting the quality of the final product. The <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> is not limited to reaching potential customer only. Businesses generally find savings by using the native language of the country where they operate. Colleges are also using the service of <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation agencies</a> to translate their brochures and applications to attract international students. As more non-English users connect to the internet, businesses are realizing the importance of translate their product information in multiple languages.</p>
<p>Trade sources believe that the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation</a> industry in India will be growing tremendously over the next 5 years fueled by demand for business in emerging market languages. Most of the clients are from outside of India who is showing interest in translating the related text into several widely spoken Indian languages. But due to the global recession, many companies who have taken the service of translators has cutting down the translation expenditure.  The value of translation is difficult to ignore even during this global economy recession. Many top level businessmen believe that the <a href="http://www.lyriclabs.com/">translation company</a> is going to get more growth as more companies are setting up global business.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Need work? Trying making your own.]]></title>
<link>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/need-work-trying-making-your-own/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hkarner</dc:creator>
<guid>http://funkensprungnuts.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/need-work-trying-making-your-own/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Listen to the story How do you find a job in today&#8217;s economy when most companies aren&#8217;t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><h2><img src="http://images.publicradio.org/content/2009/01/08/20090108_charles_handy_18.jpg" alt="Charles Handy " /> <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/popup.php?name=marketplace/pm/2009/11/06/marketplace_cast1_20091106_64&#38;starttime=00:07:49.0&#38;endtime=00:10:17.0">Listen to the story</a></h2>
<p>How do you find a job in today&#8217;s economy when most companies aren&#8217;t hiring and few jobs are being created? Commentator <span style="color:#33cccc;"><strong>Charles Handy </strong></span>says the thing to do is make your own work.</p>
<p>London Business School founder and Claremont Graduate University&#8217;s Drucker School of Business Professor, Charles Handy. (Liz Handy)</p>
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<h3><!--more-->TEXT OF COMMENTARY</h3>
<p><strong>KAI RYSSDAL:</strong> Maybe the toughest part of today&#8217;s unemployment number to wrap your brain around is that there aren&#8217;t a whole lot of places that 10 percent of the work force not working can go. Companies aren&#8217;t really hiring, not many new jobs are being created.</p>
<p>Commentator Charles Handy says the thing to do is make your own work.</p>
<hr /><strong>Charles Handy: </strong>Let&#8217;s be realistic &#8212; jobs are going to be in short supply for the next few years. Of course, it does depend on what you mean by a job.</div>
<p>The other day, I was having lunch with an advertising executive. He was bemoaning the fact that he had lost his job while still at the height of his powers, as he saw it. Just at that moment, the electrician who was working in his house put his head around the door. &#8220;I won&#8217;t be back for a couple of days,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got another job to fit in.&#8221; In his world, a job meant a client; in my friend&#8217;s world, it meant an employer.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no obvious limit to the number of electrician-type jobs that can exist. Or plumbers. Or accountants. The world is full of potential clients &#8212; for something. The problem is that you have to create the something yourself, and most of us are not born entrepreneurs. Particularly if we have grown up and even grown old in institutions, moving from school to college to organization, places where work was shoved at you, yours only to pick up your shovel or pen and deal with it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s best to practice it young if you can. I said to my kids, &#8220;When you leave college don&#8217;t get a job at first. Find someone who will pay you money for something you make or do for them. It will be good practice for life later on.&#8221; But it&#8217;s never too late to start, and more of us will have to, one day, now that life is longer and organizations much slimmer.</p>
<p>I did it. I became fed up with organizations &#8212; grew out of them really &#8212; and went on my own when I was 49. Cold-calling potential clients, learning to live a cash-flow life after a salaried one. It was hard at first. But I learnt to love the freedom, and the joy of working with people rather than for people. Besides, if you are your own boss, it&#8217;s up to you how hard you work, or where, or when, or why.</p>
<p><strong>Ryssdal: </strong>Management consultant Charles Handy is a founder of the London Business School. His most recent book is called &#8220;Myself, and Other More Important Matters.&#8221;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Funny printed paper]]></title>
<link>http://lifeinperu.com/2009/11/13/funny-printed-paper/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wwelvaert</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lifeinperu.com/2009/11/13/funny-printed-paper/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[2 cool charts I copied from Rolfe Winkler at Reuters. To illustrate my point that money&#8217;s just]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>2 cool charts I copied from <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/rolfe-winkler/">Rolfe Winkler</a> at Reuters.  To illustrate my point that money&#8217;s just funny printed paper.</p>
<div id="attachment_1159" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/public-debt-out.jpg"><img src="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/public-debt-out.jpg?w=300" alt="US public debt outstanding" title="US public debt outstanding" width="300" height="195" class="size-medium wp-image-1159" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">US public debt outstanding</p></div>
<p>US public debt, doesn&#8217;t include unfunded healthcare and Social Security oblications.  Original <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/rolfe-winkler/files/2009/11/public-debt-out.jpg">here</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_1158" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dow-vs-gold.jpg"><img src="http://wwelvaert.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dow-vs-gold.jpg?w=300" alt="Dow Jones historical chart valued in gold" title="Dow Jones historical chart valued in gold" width="300" height="195" class="size-medium wp-image-1158" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dow Jones historical chart valued in gold</p></div>
<p>Dow Jones historical chart as valued in gold.  Original <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/rolfe-winkler/files/2009/11/dow-vs-gold.jpg">here</a>.</p>
<p>Peruvians should pay attention to these, since Peru historically has very close ties to the US and gold  is a major part of Peru&#8217;s foreign exports.  To stay up to date on all things gold and Peruvian economy, head over to <a href="http://www.incakolanews.blogspot.com/">IKN</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[3 Reasons Why Adsense Is Essential For Content Sites]]></title>
<link>http://1alluneed.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/3-reasons-why-adsense-is-essential-for-content-sites/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>1alluneed</dc:creator>
<guid>http://1alluneed.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/3-reasons-why-adsense-is-essential-for-content-sites/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works. The concept]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-17" style="margin:7px;" title="ring" src="http://1alluneed.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ring.jpg?w=300" alt="ring" width="180" height="145" />The concept is really simple, if you think about it. The publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad. If a visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying the search engine for the click.</p>
<p><!--more-->The search engine is the one handling all the tracking and payments, providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive and targeted ads without having the hassle to solicit advertisers, collect funds, monitor the clicks and statistics which could be a time-consuming task in itself. It seems that there is never a shortage of advertisers in the program from which the search engine pulls the Adsense ads. Also webmasters are less concerned by the lack of information search engines are providing and are more focused in making cash from these search engines.</p>
<p>The first reason why Adsense is essential for content sites is because it already has come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers and webmasters. Together with its continuous progression is the appearance of more advanced system that allows full ad customization. Webmasters are given the chance to choose from many different types of text ad formats to better complement their website and fit their webpage layout.</p>
<p>The different formatting enables the site owners the possibility of more click through from visitors who may or may not be aware of what they are clicking on. It can also appeal to the people visiting thus make them take that next step of looking up what it is all about. This way the people behind the Adsense will get their content read and making profit in the process.</p>
<p>The second reason is the ability of the Adsense publishers to track not only how their sites are progressing but also the earnings based on the webmaster-defined channels. The recent improvements in the search engines gives webmasters the capability to monitor how their ads are performing using customizable reports that has the capacity to detail page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters and publishers can now track specific ad formats, colors and pages within a website. Trends are also easily spotted.</p>
<p>With the real-time reporting at hand, the effectiveness of the changes made will be assessed quickly. There would be time to sort out the contents that people are making the most clicks on. The ever-changing demands would be met while generating cash for the webmasters and publishers. The more flexible tools are also allowing webmasters to group web pages by URL, domain, ad type or category, which will provide them some accurate insight on which pages, ads and domains are performing best.</p>
<p>The last and final reason is that the advertisers have realized the benefits associated having their ads served on targeted websites. Thus increasing the possibility that a prospective web surfer will have an interest in their product and services. All because of the content and its constant maintenance. As opposed to those who are no using Adsense in their sites, they are given the option of having other people do their content for them, giving them the benefit of having successful and money-generating web sites.</p>
<p>Adsense is all about targeted content, the more targeted your content is, the more target the search engines’ ads will be. There are some web masters and publishers who are focused more on their site contents and how best to maintain them rather than the cash that the ads will generate for them. This is the part where the effectiveness is working its best.</p>
<p>There was a time when people were not yet aware of the money to be achieved from advertisements. The cash generated only came into existence when the webmasters and publishers realized how they can make Adsense be that generator. In those days, the content were the most important factors that is taken quite seriously. It still is. With the allure of money, of course.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A Great Value? Check it closely!]]></title>
<link>http://dalkoyo.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/a-great-value-check-it-closely/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dalkoyo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dalkoyo.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/a-great-value-check-it-closely/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to save some money and thought I would check out this Great Value Brand at WalMart.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I&#8217;m trying to save some money and thought I would check out this Great Value Brand at WalMart. NO! For one thing check out the price difference between it and your favorite brand. In cases it appears that it can be as much as 30 cents higher than a national brand. But here&#8217;s a way &#8216;they&#8217; won&#8217;t let you do this&#8230;Remove the competition of the shelf. Let&#8217;s see, cottage cheese area in the store had almost 90% as the Great Value label and very few of the old standbys like Nordica or Lucern. This is just wrong. In some cases the quantity is less but the actual package is larger in size or there is an indent on the bottom you don&#8217;t see until you flip it over. Another thing is that they put it on an endcap so you can&#8217;t see it and compare it with others. And because it is on the endcap you are more likely to grab it for convenience.</p>
<p>Next time you are seeking to save money, take the time to really look at the price differences between what you prefer and this Great Value thing at Walmart.</p>
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