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5 Ways to Integrate Mobile Devices at Your Enterprise

Smartphones and tablets are in the hands of more consumers every day. The days of leaving your work at home are long gone, but these devices bring home and work together like never before. Wi-Fi functionality makes them capable of connecting to your corporate network, making employees ever so much more productive.

It’s tempting to simply disallow such connections for security reasons, but with so many users – or when the user in question is a C-level executive – saying “no” isn’t always an option. Here are a few ways to let folks connect at work without creating dozens of security holes.

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Differences Between Facebook and Google+

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Google+ provides easier access to options for sharing information than Facebook does. Google+ Circles allows its users to select which of their friends they want to share certain things (such as a photo or post) with, while not allowing the others to see them. Meanwhile, Facebook does not offer an easy to use option to select specific friends to share each individual item with. And the privacy selections that Facebook does provide are very limited.

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9 Tips for a Successful Webinar Event

Webinars serve multiple purposes. In business, webinars can be a valuable tool for solidifying relationships with your clients. Depending on its content, you may even consider hosting a webinar-for-profit. However, even the best content won’t make up for bad hosting.

Even though the audience enjoys the benefit of not spending time and money to travel to a central location, they are still spending time to attend the webinar. If they feel the webinar isn’t worth their time, especially if they paid a registration fee, then they aren’t likely to sign up to attend future events. And if they aren’t planning to attend future events, they probably aren’t going to recommend them to other people either.

Below is a list of practices to help you successfully host your own webinar. Along with advice from friends and associates, these are things that I’ve learned through trial and error when hosting webinars. Some of the items I was able to correct after the first time, but a couple of them took a few attempts before learning what worked best for both my audience and I.

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Android Apps for National League Central Division Baseball Fans

The National League’s Central Division is full of surprises this year. Teams are jockeying for position to gain the right to compete in the playoffs in September. There is a lot of baseball to play before the winner is decided. So don’t let yourself be caught unawares. Make sure that you have one of these apps on your Android phone. Or you may spend the winter wondering just what happened. It is important to follow your favorite club no matter what. Don’t wimp out just because the odds are against your local nine. It isn’t over until every team is statistically eliminated. History is chock full of many championship teams that took the baseball world by complete surprise. That is what makes baseball the great sport that it is.

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Create a Mail Merge from Existing Excel List

Creating a Mail Merge from an existing list, especially when that list is being imported from Excel, is really quite an easy task.

So easy, even Santa could do it.

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Overview of Twitter Ads [Prices, Screenshots, Terms]

Small businesses based in the United States now have the chance to take their Twitter marketing efforts to a new level. Starting in late March 2012, Twitter introduced a new advertising offering that makes it simple for companies of any size to grow their businesses using Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts products.

Twitter partnered with American Express to make it easy for small business owners to advertise on Twitter. American Express Cardmembers and merchants based in the U.S. were invited to try this new advertising solution before anyone else, and American Express gave $100 in free advertising to the first 10,000 eligible businesses to sign up.

idaconcpts.com is one of those 10,000 and it just received its invitation on 05/21/12:

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Here is an overview of Twitter Ads for small business owners.
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How to Use Mail Merge Lists in Word

I don’t know about you, but many a time I have opened up a new Word document only to be met with the old familiar feeling of intimidation. There are so many fantastic features that seem to be hidden away in an endless array of tool bars and drop down menus.

This intimidation surely has no place. Microsoft has done a wonderful job of making all features of their Office products rather user friendly. My first attempt at completing a mail merge was timid and slow as I familiarized myself with the process and its features. Once familiarized however, this process has become second nature.

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iPhone Apps for American League Eastern Division Baseball Fans

The American League’s Eastern Division may be the most difficult one in all of professional baseball. With the deepest pockets this side of the Mississippi, the Yankees and Red Sox alone assure players and fans alike that this division is no walk in the park. The Blue Jays are usually competitive as now are the Rays. The Orioles have finally come of age and are giving them all a run for their astronomical salaries. It’s not only expensive to watch every game in person, but with everyone’s busy schedule it is darn near impossible. Make sure to download your favorite team’s iPhone app. Stay in the loop for what promises to be some exciting baseball drama in the 2012 season and beyond.