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Interview with Jay Scherotter of Scottsdale Insurance Company
04/23/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
Jay Scherotter is the Director of Learning Resources and Organizational Effectiveness for the Scottsdale Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. This property/casualty insurer specializes in excess and surplus...
Motivational Quote of the Day
04/17/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
"We cannot be what we want to be by remaining what we are." -- Max DePree, author of Leadership is an Art(painting: Landscape with Merchants by Claude Lorrain)...
Lord of the Rings versus the Evil Empire?
04/15/2008 by Pamela Parker @ copyrighttalk.com
So you sold or licensed the rights to a copyrighted work. Congratulations! Now comes the part that is hard for most creative folks - keeping track of the project and your payments. Whether you handle it yourself, or whether you hire an...
Training Leadership Summit in San Diego
04/09/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
Next month from May 4th to 7th, the Rancho Bernardo Inn in sunny San Diego will play host to Training magazine's 2008 Training Leadership Summit. This event (which builds on the success of last year's inaugural Summit), will provide senior level...
Follow up on the Student Plagiarism case
04/01/2008 by Pamela Parker @ copyrighttalk.com
Last year - actually, almost exactly a year ago - I wrote about a lawsuit filed by several students over a school requirement that all papers be submitted to a web-based plagiarism checking site. The gist of the dispute was that submission to the...
Motivational Quote of the Day
03/20/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
"The West has always been the epicenter of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. We all keep moving toward the sun, wishing to get the last ray...
MGI posied to go back up--MGI, the company was founded in 1926
03/14/2008 by Rick @ mystockwinners.com
Euronet Worldwide Inc. has proposed paying $1.65 billion in stock for MoneyGram International Inc., which has hit hard times because of its investments in real estate loans. Thats $20 a share That was Dec , now they backed off because they could not...
Copyrights in US Government Materials
03/09/2008 by Pamela Parker @ copyrighttalk.com
A blog on the Wired network reports an interesting story about a recruiting video used by the US Air Force. The blog, Threat Level, was sent a copy of the video by the Air Force itself. Threat Level uploaded the video to YouTube in order to share...
Undervalued Stock---MGI (Will double soon)
03/04/2008 by Rick @ mystockwinners.com
Capital Appreciation Value: Value is a measure of a stock's current worth. MGI has a current Value of $7.15 per share. Therefore, it is undervalued compared to its Price of $3.26 per share. Value is computed from forecasted earnings per share,...
Reading to Lead - The Power of Nice
02/28/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
Who says that nice guys (or gals) finish last? Certainly not Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, co-authors of The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness. In their national bestseller, the two chief executives of the...
The Owls Could Probably Do It
02/25/2008 by Pamela Parker @ copyrighttalk.com
Raptors - those magnificent birds of prey that include hawks, owls, and eagles - have taught aeronautic engineers a lot about flight maneuverability at high speeds. Our modern fighter jets owe a great deal to the elegant design of the raptors. The...
Pinnacle Performance Featured in Chicago Sun-Times
02/12/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
Pinnacle Performance, a communication and presentation skills training firm staffed by professional actors and former corporate executives, was recently featured in the Chicago Sun-Times business section. The article focuses on Pinnacle's extensive...
What happens to the copy of my stuff that I sent to the Copyright Office?
02/08/2008 by Pamela Parker @ copyrighttalk.com
If you’ve ever registered a copyright, you know that you’re required to submit a copy of the work to the Copyright Office as part of the registration process. The US Copyright Office is a government office, and is actually part of the Library...
Juniper (JNPR) will up 50% in 2008
01/29/2008 by Rick @ mystockwinners.com
Juniper is probably my favorite company in the networking equipment segment. On Thursday, Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR) reported its results for Q4 and fiscal 2007 that ended December 31, 2007. Q4 revenue was $809.2 million, up 36% y-o-y and 10%...
Docstoc.com – free legal forms and business templates
01/24/2008 by Jeff Christman @ homebizchat.com
Docstoc.com – free legal forms and business templatesIf you run a small business, you will need to create and develop documents. I have often used templates from Microsoft office and very often found something that was not just quite right but...
Learn Office Skills Free
01/24/2008 by Jeff Christman @ homebizchat.com
Edumax provides free “virtual classrooms” on various subjects and you can learn for free as long as you have access to the internet! Our “virtual classrooms” are a series of easy to understand lessons prepared by experts that I can be...
Interview with Karie Willyerd of Sun Microsystems
01/23/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
Karie Willyerd is the Chief Learning Officer at Sun Microsystems, and is responsible for product and technical training, executive learning, business, management and professional skill development, and sales and service learning for Sun around the...
JNPR ---Undervalued Stock---
01/23/2008 by Rick @ mystockwinners.com
========= Undervalued Stock #1 ==========Juniper Networks, Inc. engages in the design, development, and sale of assured Internet Protocol (IP) secure networking solutions primarily in Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia Pacific. Its...
Motivational Quote of the Day
01/17/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
"What you cannot enforce, do not command."- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC) - Playwright, politician, general and priest...
Registering for a Copyright
01/11/2008 by Pamela Parker @ copyrighttalk.com
Need a how-to lesson? Here you go - When you create a work, in the US you automatically have a copyright in that work. You do not need to do anything to have the copyright. However, if you want to put the world on notice that you have this...
Investing Minds
01/09/2008 by Rick @ mystockwinners.com
The Weekend Edition: Rich Families Getting Richer The numbers of millionaire households globally grew by 14% in 2006 from 2005 and now control a third of the estimated $100 trillion in wealth, a new study by Boston Consulting Group released. These...
Compulsory Licenses
01/08/2008 by Pamela Parker @ copyrighttalk.com
Okay, so I've said again and again that the person who owns the copyright to a work has the exclusive right to determine when and how it is used. The copyright owner can either give or withhold permission to others for the use of their copyrighted...
Motivational Quote of the Day
01/08/2008 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."- Bertie C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 – May 6, 1954),...
Change from the Bottom Up
01/07/2008 by Pamela Parker @ copyrighttalk.com
Copyright will one day be overhauled. It won't happen soon, and it won't happen quickly, if for no other reason than that the infrastructure that supports the copyright laws is so huge and far-reaching that it will take some time to make changes...
Motivational Quote of the Day
12/25/2007 by Brian @ leadershiptrainingskills.com
"Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"- Santa ClausMerry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!...