Last week I told you I would help you write a compelling letter or email to help you ask your coworkers to sponsor your kid in his or her fundraising event. So here goes. You may think this advice is nutty, but trust me: since I’ve been using it, I’ve been very successful in having
Read More...Bill Kutik talks about Oracle’s perception problem with Fusion after their five years of secrecy, what the early adopters so far look like, and how customers are slowly looking at Fusion in earnest. But an interesting subplot is the Oracle v. Workday cage match that’s going on, one that will be ultimately considered a function
Read More...So Boy Genius Report got everyone pretty worked up when they wrote last week’s article entitled, Adobe Finally Brings Flash to iPhone and iPad. I got not one but several emails asking me what this really means, and one telling me that the day had come: Apple devices now support Flash and I’m wrong when I
Read More...Reflecting back on 9/11, I came across this over the past weekend. Worth a read even after the fact. Here’s Steve Hendrix, writing for the Washington Post: Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She
Read More...The PeopleSoft Blog has a nice reminder that you can search object navigation via a customizable search function under ‘Enterprise Components’. Some of you may know about this, but we find many don’t. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a screenshot: (Click to enlarge) Give it a shot if you haven’t already.
Read More...The best part about working in an office is where your colleagues bring in their children’s fundraising projects and ask you to chip in, acting as if you have any choice in the matter. What are you going to say, no? Are you going to say, “Listen, your kid is an nearly 100-degree assemblage of
Read More...Carol Bartz has been fired from Yahoo and replaced, in the interim, by Tim Morse. Bartz sent this zinger of an email to the entire Yahoo staff upon receiving the news: From: “Carol Bartz” To: “all-worldwide@yahoo-inc.com” Subject: Goodbye To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone
Read More...In these days of tight times, the most common modus operandi/strategy of IT and Business Process re-engineering or Optimization projects has been twofold: Keep the wheels on the wagon, or Fund only projects that have a good opportunity for real ROI. If you have had problems getting funding (like everyone else) for worthwhile projects, consider
Read More...Fermilab astrophysicist Jason Steffen got to thinking about an everyday problem we all can agree needs some brianpower applied to it: how to make passengers board airplanes more efficiently. By design, he thought, passenger jets seem to encourage people to waste time. How to fix it? After a bit of tinkering, Steffen found a way:
Read More...Prelude You should never, ever, allow somebody you don’t know to build something for you where your safety is actually up for grabs. Invariably, when you are not looking, they will flub the job just enough to send you to an emergency medical establishment, where their uncles work and will pay them a handsome fee
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