Taking Control of Your Search

If you find yourself getting annoyed from too many of your search results being filled with ads, or the websites that do come up are little more than ads making up ~90% of the page, one can’t help but to start thinking that there has to be a better alternative.  It’s just not efficient, or [...]

5 Advantages of Blogs for Learning Something New

Even though blogs may not have the attention as the latest social networking fad, they still should not be overlooked as a valuable resource whenever trying to learn something new. Whether for a hobby, vacation, research, or staying informed at work, here are five advantages blogs have over social networks. For Publishers As with most [...]

Artisans Experiencing New Growth, Gift Ideas for the Holidays

From helping rural areas find opportunities for their traditional designs such as in India and Haiti, to supporting local communities for holiday shopping, to providing therapeutic support and peace of mind, artisan activities seem to be awakening across the board.   Here are a few articles recently announced. Making rural artisans shareholders, The Times of India: [...]

Personal Networks Swinging from Quantity to Quality

It seems the pendulum of personal network trends, at least for what you can consider the mainstream, is starting its’ swing back from one end of quantity (how many thousands of “friends” can you get) towards another end that you could say is tending towards higher quality (or perhaps a “less is more” perspective). You [...]

Getting a Quick Preview of Your Application Items Before Deleting

Now whenever you’d like to remove an item from any of the applications, you’ll see a quick preview of the item before you confirm to actually delete. This is set up for when you highlight an item and click delete, the new window that appears to ask you to confirm now shows the application item [...]

When you need Quality over Quantity, Try an Intranet

As more and more firms are racing to fill up the Internet with a focus on quantity over quality, it seems finding what you’re really looking for will only become more difficult and frustrating.  Finding the true experts in any given field takes longer, finding a half dozen or more for some real alternatives can [...]