Saturday, September 27, 2008
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Rapists cruised roads for victim By SARA SAMI
The men, all in their 20s, have admitted snatching the woman off the street at around 3am on Sunday, raping her and dumping her on the Manama coastline.
They hatched a plan earlier in the evening to find, snatch and rape a woman, Chief Public Prosecutor Usama Al Asfoor said yesterday..... > read full article
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Alternative Treatments for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Adding natural alternative treatments for depression, natural anxiety treatments and stress management techniques can make a big difference in your life. Dr. Podell can help you understand your options for alternative treatments for depression, natural anxiety treatments and stress management techniques...> read full article
What Thyroid Patients Need to Know About Depression
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Warning for employers withholding their expatriate workers' passports
Low-cost System System Thwarts Internet Eavesdropping
Monday, September 1, 2008
Potentially Serious Security Flaws Found In Most Bank Websites, Including Large Bank Sites, Study Shows
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Protect Yourself From Computer Hackers -- Computer Scientists Say Hackers Prey On Those Who Don't Protect Themselves
What is Bipolar Depression?
ScienceDaily (2008-08-31) -- Bipolar disorder is one of the most important psychiatric diseases, often associated with considerable treatment needs and tremendous social and occupational burden for both the individual and family (Pini et al., 2005). Previously also labeled manic-depressive illness, bipolar disorder is typically referred to as an episodic, yet lifelong and clinically severe mood (or affective) disorder. ... > read full article
Laughter Is The Best Medicine
ScienceDaily (2008-01-26) -- Laughter is the best medicine. We've heard the expression time and again. For decades, researchers have explored how humor helps patients relieve stress and heal. Now, researchers have taken it one step further, with new research on how humor helps medical professionals cope with their difficult jobs. She also looked at how humor affects the elderly and how it can increase communication in the workplace and in the classroom. ... > read full article
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Ten Ways to Increasing Intranet Exposure
Most company's are familiar with the traditional method of system launch: creating a buildup of expectation, lead by a high-profile marketing campaign, prior to the system's official launch date. But a trend that's been gaining momentum is the idea of the non-launch, or a “quiet” launch. Unlike the fanfare often associated with traditional, “loud” launches, quiet launches rely mostly on word-of-mouth and low-key promotion.
The idea of using quiet rollouts as opposed to grand system launches came about as a result of user communities that have grown wary, even cynical, of past IT system rollout failures — late launch dates, missing features, marketing that exaggerated true system value, or the system not living up to the hype. Creating a lot of buzz surrounding an intranet launch in this type of cynical environment will cause users to think, "Oh great, here we go again. What is it this time?"
Ten Ways to Increasing Intranet Exposure
Regardless of whether you decide to implement a high-profile or low-key system launch, there are numerous ways to increase intranet exposure from within your company. Many of the methods mentioned below can be used concurrently and will be most effective when you understand your user community.
1. Intranet Presentations
It's not always feasible to provide presentations to the entire company — especially for larger corporations with thousands of employees, or employees working from remote, satellite offices where time zone differences with corporate headquarters may make it difficult.
But presentations can be given to smaller groups — department heads, group and project leaders — highlighting key intranet features and the types of content that can be found in the system. Then they, in turn, can introduce the system to their own staff.
The added benefit of this top-down approach will allow intranet marketers to adapt their presentation to focus on each department's key needs (targeted marketing is discussed below). And, since you're presenting to much smaller groups of key individuals, satellite offices can be introduced to the intranet with the use of a real-time Web conferencing software such as WebEx — a tool that I've had success with in the past.
2. Targeted Marketing
Rather than using a blanket marketing model to introduce your intranet to potential users, you should focus on the needs of each individual department or workgroup, highlighting the features and content that will be of the most use to them.
Since first impressions play such a big role in system adoption, users should always be made aware of those features that will be most applicable to them during their initial exposure to the system. Once their attention has been piqued, they will most likely explore other areas of the intranet on their own and find more relevant information. No amount of marketing will match the effectiveness of a user's curiosity.
3. Word-of-Mouth
All non-secured information contained within an intranet should have an "E-mail this article to a colleague" feature that allows users to forward an article, or a link to an article, to someone else in the company. This works well in a company that's adopted the quiet method of system rollout since it allows the user community to create awareness of the system through word-of-mouth. In a sense, this acts as a user-based version of targeted marketing because employees who are not aware of the system will receive information most applicable to them from their own colleagues and will, therefore, be more likely to read it.
4. Create Brochures and Posters
A colorful, one-page brochure will go a long way towards creating awareness of your intranet. But in order to be effective, an introductory brochure must remain simple; the longer it is, the less likely people will be to read it. It must contain several important pieces of information: the intranet's URL, screen shots of the main page and any other key pages, and a short description of the system's purpose (i.e., its mission statement) and main features.
In addition to a brochure, you can place eye-catching, easy-to-read posters advertising your intranet in high-traffic areas such as near main entrances, foyers, and the cafeteria. And since many companies have their own internal communications and graphics departments, their skills can be put to good use in order to accomplish these tasks.
5. Intranet Merchandise
Intranet exposure can be increased by creating free or low-cost intranet branded merchandise such as mouse pads, pens, letterheads, and stickers, just to name a few. But, depending on the other ongoing promotional activities that you may have going at the same time, you may discover that the cost of producing these items in large quantities may not be worth the payoff.
6. Send Regular Newsletters
To keep existing intranet users up-to-date and to introduce the system to new users, include a feature allowing them to subscribe to regular e-mail based "What's New" newsletters that list the latest additions to the intranet with active links to the content.
The advantage here is that it allows you to steer users directly to the intranet (as opposed to including the full text of the information on the e-mail) where they will find not only the information associated with the link they clicked on in their e-mail, but hopefully, other useful content that they may discover along the way.
7. Name Contest
One of the most popular and successful methods of creating exposure for your intranet is by holding a contest giving your employees the opportunity to come up with a name and/or logo for the system. The prize for the winning entry could be anything from gift certificates to extra vacation days.
8. Use a Recognizable URL
Your intranet's URL is just as important as its brand (intranet branding is discussed in my article Intranet Standardization: All For One, and One For All). And as such, it must be short and memorable — something that can be quickly typed into a Web browser regardless of whether you have the site bookmarked. For example:
www.IntranetName.com is good;www.CompanyName.com/Applications/IntranetName/Home.html is not.
9. Use an E-Mail Signature
Key intranet players — content owners, developers, designers — can place a link and short description or catch phrase into their internal e-mail signature.
10. Intranet as a Base of Support
Implementing online discussion forums can be a good way to direct users — users who may not normally visit the intranet — to the system.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Reference Books
ITIL Concept
SAP Business Process
Six Sigma for Dummies
Sybex Certified Ethical Hacker
Hacking Wirelss Network
ArcGIS Desktop Developer Guide
Exploring ArcObjects
Getting Started with ArcIMS
Oracle 10g Administration
Performance Tuning SQL
Programming ArcObjects with VBA 2nd ed.
SQL for Dummies
Understanding ArcSDE
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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