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Home office? No deduction for Thighmaster.
via June Walker: Tax & Financial Advisor to the Self-employed since 1979 by June Walker on July 02, 2008
Hello June!Thank you so much for your blog! The pieces of information that you put together for us are always extremely helpful for us! Thank you, thank you, thank you!I am a Graphic Designer -- 5 years -- from Huntington Beach, CA.I was hoping to ask you a question today about setting up a home gym for my sole proprietorship.This comes after I found this piece of information on the Internet: 3....
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Why I'm leaving Forrester
via Groundswell by Charlene Li on July 02, 2008
by Charlene LiI was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received -- and it wasto plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because researchshowed that people typically master a job in that time period and fall into aroutine. It's a testament to Forrester that I've been happilyemployed at the company for over nine years (that's 36 Internet yearsor 63 dog years). I have...
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Social Media & the Cost of Fuel
via Global Neighbourhoods by shel on July 02, 2008
Paula & I just changed plans to visit our daughter in Dallas because of the high price of airfare and the lack of direct connections. A friend who's a retailer at Tahoe tells me he expects a terrible July 4th weekend because of the high price of gasoline. Another friend--in a Fortune 100 company tells me that travel budgets are being zeroed out as a cost cutter.There simply is no dispute...
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Is it worthy?
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on June 17, 2008
Is this the best I can do? I’ve paid for the rent and the furnishings and the menus and the staff and the insurance... is this plate of food worthy of what went before it? I’ve flown across the country to visit this museum--a building that cost more than a billion dollars to create and fill and maintain. Is my attention focused enough? We paid $300 in marketing costs just to get this phone...
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Software Company Ditches AdWords for... Kiva?
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on June 18, 2008
Two months ago, Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software -- the makers of a web-based project management app called Contour -- began a program called "You try. We give." The idea was simple, for everyone who signed up for a free trial of Contour, the company would set aside some money to invest in microloans at Kiva. In theory, word of their philanthropy would help spread their product and more...
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ASSK Why Burma Can't Wait on June 19th
via Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media by Beth on June 18, 2008
... across the web will work together to educate and inspire online users to join and/or donate to the campaign, promoting the idea that freedom is the best birthday present. The slogan is “ASSK WHY IT CAN’T WAIT” - a nod to the acronym for Aung San Suu Kyi’s name, ASSK. So, if you see people tweeting about ASSK's birthday, it's about the Burma Can't Wait Campaign.
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Skype 4.0 Beta: It’s All About Video
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on June 17, 2008
Skype is getting a major, much-needed upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it the “biggest new release in Skype’s history.” The new software client, which which will be released here in beta tomorrow (for Windows only), takes up the whole screen. Video is front and center. “Our old UI was purpose-built for voice ,” Silverman tells me. (I put an excerpt from my...
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Law Firm 2.0 – Let’s change billing practices before it is too late
via Mendelson's Musings by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
Shared by Sue Legal fees are climbing at an outrageous rate and truly hinder more startups. Addressing this is key to increasing entrepreneurial activity.The last post in my series of Law Firm 2.0 had to deal with specific efficiencies that I think can be gained in the process of doing deals. This all assumed that the current model of the law firm does not change. Today, I tackle the first of...
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The Ed. Tech. Echo Chamber?
via Educational Insanity by Jon Becker on June 05, 2008
I’m sure I’m not the first to write about this, but Scott McLeod delivered his latest list of the (potentially) top 50 P-12 education blogs and he got me thinking. The list is what it is…a ranking based on one metric: how many other blogs (and blogs only) have linked to a given blog. As long as Scott’s clear about that, which he very well is, then readers can make what they want of the...
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Website Videos - How Important Can They Be To Your Business?
via VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog by verticalresponse on June 17, 2008
I was looking at our website Google Analytics statistics the other day and was blown away by a statistic I uncovered. It seems that a large percentage of our website traffic in the last month came from people watching our video tutorials. Even though we have a web-based tool that is very intuitive, it's great to have that step-by-step video of how it's supposed to be used so that anyone...
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