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Charge what you’re worth

Chris Brogan charges what he's worth. He's worth $22,000/day. He's OK with that, and if he can get it, so are we. Are you charging what you're worth?

Business of Happiness

I just finished reading The Business of Happiness by Ted Leonsis. I recommend it! Check out the website to get some background on the author and book. To summarize, Ted grew up in Brooklyn the son of immigrant parents. Through hard work and fortunate timing he was very successful at a young age. But he wasn't happy. A near death experience opened his eyes to his second chance at life and he decided to dedicate himself to being happy. Ted's theory is to not confuse being successful with bei...

Staying Human: Google is great, until it isn’t

We blog about Google a lot and up until now it's all been positive. We've run across a problem we can't fix and it revolves around the way Google handles their products. Google is successful because so much of what they do is automated. For the most part this works great as Google excels at knowing what people need and fulfilling that need in a convenient and usable online format. The problem is that even with Google's technical capabilities some issues still require commonsense and a huma...

The cure for software upgrades?

A software upgrade can be a major disruption to a business. We've listed the revisions to Microsoft's core businesss products going back to 1995. Windows Servers Office Exchange (email) SQL (database) Windows 95 Windows NT (1993) Office 95 Exchange 5.5 SQL 7.0 Windows 98 Windows Server 2000 Office 98 Exchange 2000 SQL 2000 Windows 2000 Windows Server 2003 Office 2000 Exchange 2003 SQL 2005 Windows XP Windows Server 2008 Office XP Exchange 2007 SQL 2...

Multitasking is a myth

Courtesy of @rands on Twitter: In a previous blog post we summed up multitasking as: Multitasking is the ability to shift between tasks very quickly. Also known as timeslicing, these transitions happen so quickly it appears like multitasking. However, each time you switch between tasks you must back up just a bit and review where you left off to make sure you don’t miss any critical information, essentially doing the same work over and over. The constant starting and stopping of tasks le...

The Internet has a Time Machine

The Wayback Machine at www.archive.org has been keeping a record of web sites on the Internet for years. Go there and check out your favorite site. It can be quite interesting to view a site as it evolved over time. Here at Network Velocity we recently completed a slight reorganization of our site. We tweaked our message, changed the navigation and removed a lot of technical content. We wanted to make our site simpler. We think we succeeded. With that project behind us I decided to look at...

Will’s Wisdom

Saw this video over on www.smbitpros.com It's worth reposting. Will Smith has a great attitude on life.

Rain in San Diego

It's raining here in San Diego. A rare and welcome site.

Virtual Assistants: Adventures in Delegation

We all have limited time in each day. Looking to increase my productivity and free myself from mundane tasks I decided to try a Virtual Assistant service called AskSunday. With AskSunday you can delegate tasks like ordering food, flower delivery, purchasing event tickets, booking travel plans and many others. My experience with AskSunday was not good. Here's a breakdown. Inputting Service Requests. To start a new request you can send an email, login via the AskSunday website or call. Since...

3 words for 2010

Chris Brogan wrote a great piece on choosing three words to act as guideposts for what you want to accomplish in 2010. I encourage you to read his entire post but to summarize Chris writes: Setting goals is what January 1st is all about. Over the last few years, I’ve practiced something I call “my 3 words,” where I come up with three words that I use as guidance for how I should conduct my efforts in the year to come. I set goals around these three words. I build deadlines and projects around t...