Jan
18
With the adoption of mobile spreading faster than expected, the question lingers, is there still a need for face-to-face meetings? Some would go to one extreme and say, there is no need for face-to-face meetings with all the new technology at our disposal, while others would say there should be a balance between the use of virtual vs. face-to-face meetings.
I am not here to tell you whether or not to meet via a mobile technology or meet face-to-face but rather to change your focus on how to make your meetings effective. Here are some general principles to remember whether it is a virtual or face-to-face meeting.
- Define the purpose of your meeting. What is the result you want from this meeting?
- Make sure every meeting has a leader who is responsible for the success of the meeting
- Provide an agenda to all attendees
- Prepare! Every participant should prepare for the meeting
- Focus, there should be no multi-tasking during the meeting
At the end of the day, we all have different opinions and preferences regarding which method to use when meeting but if the meeting has achieved the goal of the meeting and is effective, that is defined as success.
By: Nicole Belter
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Dec
14
Recently, Google changed its algorithm to provide its users the most relevant search results as quickly as possible. This update will further reduce rankings for low-quality sites and give enhanced position to high-quality sites. Here are highlights of the most important updates: Choosing text from page content rather than from headers or menus. Text Text Text! De-duplicating boilerplate link anchors – Links in headers, footers & blog rolls will not help your rankings and only be used once. Fresher, more recent results – Google will provide preference to newer time oriented content. Thus, blog and social media content needs more
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Nov
17
In our daily lives we experience many different kinds of user interfaces. Some experiences are effortless and go unnoticed, while others are exciting or even frustrating. When creating a user interface the designer must be aware of the experience that is being created and the reflection that it will have on the brand the interaction is related to. Common sense would dictate that the goal of a user experience designer would be to make the user interface as transparent as possible. There is a problem with transparency however, it lacks personality and therefore brand. Making First Impressions Let’s compare the
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Nov
9
Social Media is the buzz of today’s business landscape. If you are in B2B sales, you may be wondering if Social Media is worth all the visibility it receives. If so, how can you use it to increase sales success? Is it really useful or just a waste of time? The answer is that Social Media can greatly enhance your ability to make a sale – the tricky part is that it takes some work on your part. If you have been selling for awhile, you would probably agree that selling is the act of aligning your “solution” with another’s
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Oct
10
Envano recently launched a re-designed version of our site: Envano.com and our main focus in re-designing the site was to make it mobile friendly. Mobile devices typically have slower internet connections than their desktop counterparts, and because of this, the overall size of a page needs to be smaller for mobile users. One of the best ways to reduce the size of a page is to use fewer images and external files. CSS Border Art One of the techniques used to reduce the number of images on a page is to use CSS borders. Borders can be used to create
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Oct
3
Why? When considering a Server-side language many think of the popular and common ones like PHP, Perl, or .NET, however, a new alternative has risen in popularity that allows the execution of JavaScript on the server-side and utilizes Google’s V8 JavaScript Engine. Essentially, it is a set of libraries on top of Google’s V8 and It is named node.js. The most intriguing feature of Node is in how it handles I/O threads. Their site states, “Node will show much better memory efficiency under high-loads than systems which allocate 2MB thread stacks for each connection.” The result of this is that
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Aug
3
A combined 55.8% of online consumers rate Facebook pages influential (32.9%), very influential (16.7%) or extremely influential (6.2%) in making purchases from the retailer or consumer goods company behind the page, according to data collected by Compete in April and May 2011. A combined 26% of online consumers visit the Facebook page of a retailer/consumer product company once a month or more. This is an important statistics to remind companies that posting on Facebook regularly can increase awareness and sales. A company Facebook Page must be compelling, visually stimulating, and have real-time engagement. It is all about the fans, not
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Jul
27
Email, news, search, and shopping are the top “me time” activities for Moms: Moms control an estimated 80% of all household spending, or $1.7 trillion a year, and companies must understand how women’s shopping behaviors change when they have children. Some key stats on Mom’s Smartphone usage: – Nearly 60 percent of moms have smartphones, and 62 percent of moms access the Web through a mobile device on a regular basis—up from 22 percent just two years ago. – Moms spend an average of 6.1 hours a day using their smartphones, compared with 2.5 hours for moms who have
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Jul
20
According to Hubspot, only 33% of companies have a mobile marketing strategy, but 62% of marketers plan to have a mobile marketing strategy within the next 12 months. Traditional websites are designed to be viewed on a computer screen instead of a mobile device. This means that most regular websites are not compatible with mobile devices. A mobile website is a long term strategy, but did you know that short term strategies exist? Have you considered some of the following? 1. 2D bar codes (e.g. QR Codes or MS Tags) 2. Mobile optimized landing pages 3. Mobile web/native applications This
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Feb
15
Green Bay, WI – Envano, in partnership with e1evation and a large tractor manufacturer, entered the Region V NAMA awards and received two first place awards. The first award was in “Audio/Visual/Electronic Media Tools” and featured the clients Blog. The second was in “Other Social Media” and highlighted a group of social media tools including blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Scribd, UStream and Google Reader. The Best of NAMA Awards are sponsored by the National Agri-Marketing Association. NAMA is the nation’s largest professional association for marketing and agribusiness professionals. Winning entries in 2010 were selected from among 1,199 entries that qualified
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