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      <title>Using irFanView to batch edit images</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I recently decided to repurpose a product and turn it into a book and Kindle version. The Kindle version had no real issues with images since they get down sampled anyway, but the printed book needed to have the images at at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). If not the images would almost certainly be grainy, and I don’t want that. Most screen capture software saves the images at 96 dpi or sometimes 72 dpi. I started using Photoshop and taking each image and making it 384 dpi by using the bicubic sampling functions. It was a pain. First, change the image type to indexed color, then upscale, downsize (the images get really big), then change back to RGB. Do that for 50 images, well, you get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Now</title>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;what-im-doing-now&#34;&gt;What I&amp;rsquo;m Doing Now&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inspired by Derek Sivers &lt;a href=&#34;https://sive.rs/now&#34;&gt;https://sive.rs/now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;simplify&#34;&gt;Simplify&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve already archived almost all of my CD&amp;rsquo;s (keeping some that are special, like limited editions), and most of my books are digital. Finishing up the last batch of ones I don&amp;rsquo;t need as hard copies. I hated ebooks but have learned to love them for the flexibilty, ability to search easy, notate, and print a page or two if needed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;what-im-doing-now&#34;&gt;What I&amp;rsquo;m Doing Now&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inspired by Derek Sivers &lt;a href=&#34;https://sive.rs/now&#34;&gt;https://sive.rs/now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;simplify&#34;&gt;Simplify&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve already archived almost all of my CD&amp;rsquo;s (keeping some that are special, like limited editions), and most of my books are digital. Finishing up the last batch of ones I don&amp;rsquo;t need as hard copies. I hated ebooks but have learned to love them for the flexibilty, ability to search easy, notate, and print a page or two if needed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Contact</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>How to Cite Your Sources Properly and Avoid Plagiarism</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:46:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the issues many authors have is how to cite sources properly. Proper citing of sources prevents plagiarism, and establishes credibility for the author and the paper. In academic writing, papers are expected to cite sources as research builds on other research. In the non-academic world, unfortunately, plagiarism is more common.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Create blog content easily</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;how-to-create-blog-content-easily&#34;&gt;How to create blog content easily&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just one post per week&amp;hellip; it&amp;rsquo;s not that much too ask is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the people I talk to about Internet marketing say the same thing, &amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t have time to keep up with my blog.&amp;rdquo; This is especially true in the offline world. Business owners are juggling too many different tasks, and writing an article seems like a lot of work. I would counter, especially to the offline business owners, that you are an expert, it shouldn&amp;rsquo;t take that much time to write an article.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Chunking as a decision making tool</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:26:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;One method of problem solving or decision-making is a process called &amp;ldquo;chunking&amp;rdquo;. Chunking is grouping or categorizing related issues or information into the smallest, most meaningful unit. Think about how hard it would be to read a 300-page book without sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. Chunking is a naturally occurring process that can be actively used to break down problems and communicate more efficiently.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Amazon Collections</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:43:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re going to talk about a little feature that Amazon has included in August of 2013.  In August 2013, Amazon quietly released a new feature that will be of interest to marketers called Amazon Collections.  It&amp;rsquo;s a direct competitor to Pinterest.  There&amp;rsquo;s some significant differences though.  Why Amazon even matters.  First, a quick recap for those who don&amp;rsquo;t like or use Amazon.  I know you&amp;rsquo;re out there.  One reason Amazon&amp;rsquo;s very important, especially to the men reading this, is that Amazon has a very diverse audience.  It&amp;rsquo;s not a heavily female-dominated site like Pinterest and some people have already declared Collections the male Pinterest.  So that should peak your interest a bit.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Are You Really An Entrepreneur?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:33:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have found there are two kinds of people in the world: entrepreneurs and employees. Which are you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you click away think long and hard, are you really cut out to work for yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, now all you employees can click away, good bye!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Globalization</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;By Jon Griffin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people think of globalization as the transfer of jobs to foreign countries. While this is certainly a part of globalization, a true definition would have to include the interconnectedness of everything around us. The interconnections are evidence of the true nature of globalization.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Amazon Web Services access keys tutorial</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:59:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hello again. This is Jon Griffin. I just want to talk to you about a little change in your Amazon Web Services account that you may or may not have noticed. That is that your security credentials are changing. It&amp;rsquo;s not that they&amp;rsquo;re going away or anything has to change, but there are no longer going to show you, online, what your secret code is.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Responsive design for WordPress video</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:09:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;tweetables&#34;&gt;Tweetables&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does your blog video display correctly on mobile devices? &amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&#34;http://clicktotweet.com/i4yQb&#34;&gt;click to tweet&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Use WordPress? Do your videos play at the right size on all devices? &amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&#34;http://clicktotweet.com/87aqT&#34;&gt;click to tweet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;transcript&#34;&gt;Transcript&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, Jon Griffin here with another little tip, brought to you by mayulienterprises.com.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Simple Wordpress Fix For Security</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Well, technically not Wordpress, but your hosting is probably vulnerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224300052&amp;amp;cid=nl_DR_DAILY_2010-04-13_h&#34;&gt;http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224300052&amp;amp;cid=nl_DR_DAILY_2010-04-13_h&lt;/a&gt; if you want to read the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was an attack on Wordpress blogs hosted at Network Solutions, but your host is probably guilty as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gist of what happened is the wp-config.php was readable by the world and the crackers got access to the database passwords and logins which are stored in that file in plain text.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Using WinSCP</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:04:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is part 4 of the No Plain Text Passwords series and is about using WinSCP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;transcript&#34;&gt;Transcript&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, so what we’re basically going to do now is create a directory that we’re going to put our key in. So all you have to do in WinSCP is go to F7 down here create directory. Make sure that you’re on the server side not your local side. (You can tell by the color change).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:47:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is part 3 of the No Plain Text Passwords series. To make your life easier and more secure you can setup your computer using PuTTYgen and Pageant to not use any passwords when you login.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Transcript&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK so basically after you install the programs WinSCP and Putty, you can go up to your programs and find here… first thing we want to do is go to the putty menu…and you’ll notice there’s a lot of stuff. We’ve got P agent and PSFTP, putty, putty manual, putty website and puttygen. For today for this lesson all we really need to worry about is P agent and puttygen.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:53:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;transcript&#34;&gt;Transcript&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All right so basically the first step of this is to get putty. I’m not going to go into setting it up. You can either read it or I’ll put out some other information later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is putty? It’s basically a Telnet/SSH. An SSH stands for Secure Shell. It comes from the old Unix days but it’s a way for windows users to securely log-in to their Unix box; which is what most hosting companies provides.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:50:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h3 id=&#34;transcript&#34;&gt;Transcript&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All right so what we’re going to do here is get what we call WinSCP or Windows Secure Copy Protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically you could replace filezilla with this program.(This is what I do. Kind of forces me to use the correct secure protocols even though filezilla I know does SFTP there. I’m just not sure because I don’t use it, all the ins and out. So I’m going to show you the way I do it.)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h3 id=&#34;secure-ftp-or-no-plain-text-passwords-please&#34;&gt;Secure FTP or No Plain Text Passwords Please&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the first things anyone should do when they are transferring files is stop using plain text passwords. What are plain text passwords? Simply, they are passwords that are not encrypted in any way. This makes it childs play for the bad guys to login to your server (or in the jargon of the day, to own you or root you).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:11:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;please-note--this-is-obsolete&#34;&gt;**Please Note &amp;ndash; This is OBSOLETE **&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just hate to break the Internet. Google Authorship is dead, don&amp;rsquo;t try this at home.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Finding bad links with Xenu’s Link Sleuth</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h3 id=&#34;transcript&#34;&gt;Transcript&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re like me, you&amp;rsquo;ve had websites for a while. One of the things that happens is the links start to stagnate. Some of your links don’t work. Maybe you changed servers or done things to your server. I just recently had that happen and it reminded me of this problem. So I shot this little video that’s going to show you an easy way to find these links that are not working. Then you can either change them, remove them or forward them to a working link. You can check on both internal and external links, because your external links are important as well. In my case, I transferred a blog to a new host, and the server name was different on the two servers. Then the problems began, but I found a great tool; Xenu&amp;rsquo;s Link Sleuth.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:28:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is a fictional case study on how to use a SWOTT analysis when starting a new business or expanding an existing one. All information is fictional except the facts about Trader Joe&amp;rsquo;s. This is not a proposal to them, or anything based on inside knowledge. As far as I know, there are no plans to create Trader Jane&amp;rsquo;s. Don&amp;rsquo;t call Trader Joe&amp;rsquo;s and ask them when the new Trader Jane&amp;rsquo;s will be open. It won&amp;rsquo;t. Have I spelled it out for you?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 10:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;All marketing plans need to include a control phase that tests marketing methods against the quantified goals of the marketing plan. Most companies use sales analysis tracing “sales revenues to their sources, such as specific products, sales territories, or customers” (Kerin, Hartley et al, 2005, p. 603). With the advent of computerization and data-warehouses, companies can now analyze many different sub-categories of sales data. Some of these include geographic disbursement, discounts, product variations, and order characteristics as well as customer data and profitability.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Using irFanView to batch edit images</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I recently decided to repurpose my Piwik Mastery product and turn it into a book and Kindle version. The Kindle version had no real issues with images since they get down sampled anyway, but the printed book needed to have the images at at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). If not the images would almost certainly be grainy, and I don&amp;rsquo;t want that. Most screen capture software saves the images at 96 dpi or sometimes 72 dpi. I started using Photoshop and taking each image and making it 384 dpi by using the bicubic sampling functions. It was a pain. First, change the image type to indexed color, then upscale, downsize (the images get really big), then change back to RGB. Do that for 50 images, well, you get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Marketing mix definition</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:26:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Dividing the multitude of marketing variables or mix into four distinct categories makes it much easier to formulate a marketing strategy. The four categories are (1) product, (2) place, (3) price, and (4) promotion, and are commonly called the “four p’s.” Note also that the client is not part of, but rather is the target of the marketing mix (Perreault, Jr. &amp;amp; McCarthy, 2004, p. 38).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Global Business Strategies</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 20:19:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;globalization&#34;&gt;Globalization&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people think of globalization as the transfer of jobs to foreign countries. While this is certainly one part of globalization, a true definition would have to include the interconnectedness of everything around us. The interconnections are evidence of the true nature of globalization. Especially in the free world, very little is produced or created in only one country. Parts, labor, and transport almost always cross international lines at some point in the product cycle. Even service industries are affected by globalization. Many services, or parts of the service, are now performed by people or companies in foreign lands. This is especially true since the internet has made borders disappear and places even the smallest companies in front of potentially millions of customers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Importance Of Strategic Planning</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 20:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Maywood Entertainment is a struggling music publishing company that specializes in ethnic music and ethnomusicology. Maywood Entertainment has been in existence for over 15 years, mainly to protect copyrights owned by the principals. The copyrights, and the finished products as well, have sat stagnant for many years with little flurries of activity when the possibility of exploiting one of the intellectual properties arises. No formal strategy has been initiated, and the tactical approach has been to react to either new ideas or licensing.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Third party conflict resolution</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 10:47:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;There are many methods of conflict resolution. This fictitious case talks about third party conflict resolution. These cases can help you create a conflict resolution lesson plan. You should also look for other cases, and if necessary create your own theoretical problem based scenarios. You can also adapt this case to your own conflict resolution lesson.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Understanding and managing diversity</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Many factors influence an individual’s behavior. In both personal and business settings understanding these factors improve an individuals or groups ability to function. Managers using this understanding of individual behavior have better results at influencing workplace behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;ethnicity&#34;&gt;Ethnicity&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ethnicity refers to selected cultural and sometimes physical characteristics used to classify people into groups or categories considered to be significantly different from others (O&amp;rsquo;Neil, 2007). Individuals must understand how to differentiate between ethnicity and race. Race, (in the human context), is an artificial definition based on physical characteristics.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Organizational behavior terminology and concepts</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 10:44:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Schermerhorn et al (2005), define organizational behavior (OB) as “the study of human behavior in organizations” (p. 3). OB uses scientific methods to test hypotheses. OB is also a multi-disciplinary study, taking knowledge from social and behavioral sciences and applying it to real-world situations.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Effective Team Building</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 10:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Teams have existed in some form for as long as humankind and many books and articles have been written about how teams work. Most people have been on teams with mixed results. Teams can have a tremendous impact on an organizations performance, yet many organizations do not exploit them fully. Understanding teams is a crucial skill for managers to fully exploit the use of teams in their organization.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;ANY EARNINGS OR INCOME STATEMENTS, OR EARNINGS OR INCOME EXAMPLES, ARE ONLY ESTIMATES OF WHAT WE THINK YOU COULD EARN. THERE IS NO ASSURANCE YOU’LL DO AS WELL. IF YOU RELY UPON OUR FIGURES, YOU MUST ACCEPT THE RISK OF NOT DOING AS WELL. WHERE SPECIFIC INCOME FIGURES ARE USED, AND ATTRIBUTED TO AN INDIVIDUAL OR BUSINESS, THOSE PERSONS OR BUSINESSES HAVE EARNED THAT AMOUNT. THERE IS NO ASSURANCE YOU’LL DO AS WELL. IF YOU RELY UPON OUR FIGURES; YOU MUST ACCEPT THE RISK OF NOT DOING AS WELL. ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OR REPRESENTATIONS, AS TO INCOME EARNINGS ON THIS WEB SITE, ARE NOT TO BE CONSIDERED AS AVERAGE EARNINGS. THERE CAN BE NO ASSURANCE THAT ANY PRIOR SUCCESSES, OR PAST RESULTS, AS TO INCOME EARNINGS, CAN BE USED AS AN INDICATION OF YOUR FUTURE SUCCESS OR RESULTS. MONETARY AND INCOME RESULTS ARE BASED ON MANY FACTORS. WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING HOW WELL YOU WILL DO, AS WE DO NOT KNOW YOU, YOUR BACKGROUND, YOUR WORK ETHIC, OR YOUR BUSINESS SKILLS OR PRACTICES. THEREFORE WE DO NOT GUARANTEE OR IMPLY THAT YOU WILL GET RICH, THAT YOU WILL DO AS WELL, OR MAKE ANY MONEY AT ALL. THERE IS NO ASSURANCE YOU’LL DO AS WELL. IF YOU RELY UPON OUR FIGURES; YOU MUST ACCEPT THE RISK OF NOT DOING AS WELL. INTERNET BUSINESSES AND EARNINGS DERIVED THEREFROM, HAVE UNKNOWN RISKS INVOLVED, AND ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON ANY INFORMATION PRESENTED IN OUR PRODUCTS, SERVICES, OR WEB SITE, SHOULD BE DONE ONLY WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU COULD EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT LOSSES, OR MAKE NO MONEY AT ALL. ALL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BY OUR COMPANY ARE FOR EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. USE CAUTION AND SEEK THE ADVICE OF QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS. CHECK WITH YOUR ACCOUNTANT, LAWYER OR PROFESSIONAL ADVISOR, BEFORE ACTING ON THIS OR ANY INFORMATION. USERS OF OUR PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND WEB SITE ARE ADVISED TO DO THEIR OWN DUE DILIGENCE WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING BUSINESS DECISIONS AND ALL INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED SHOULD BE INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS. OUR INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES ON THIS WEB SITE SHOULD BE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED AND EVALUATED, BEFORE REACHING A BUSINESS DECISION, ON WHETHER TO RELY ON THEM. YOU AGREE THAT OUR COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF YOUR BUSINESS DECISIONS RELATING TO ANY INFORMATION PRESENTED BY OUR COMPANY, OR OUR COMPANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 14:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-story-or-why-you-should-care&#34;&gt;My Story or Why You Should Care&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many faceless email lists are you on? I thought so, and for that reason I wrote this page about me. I think that, like me, you prefer to open email and follow someone you feel you know. The next thing I want to discuss is all the information you probably get everyday in your inbox. In fact, I wrote a post about that (you can check it out here: &lt;a href=&#34;https://jongriffin.com/business-articles/marketing-articles/just-hit-unsubscribe/&#34; title=&#34;Just Hit Unsubscribe&#34;&gt;Just Hit Unsubscribe&lt;/a&gt;. But, let me tell you, information alone isn&amp;rsquo;t going to help you succeed, and it should be from someone you trust. There is just far too much information out there, much of it conflicting and some flat out wrong. By getting to know my story, and reading my email and blog, I am hoping to gain your trust. Then you can take action, the right action. Without any action all the information and advice is meaningless and I want to see you succeed (really I do). It is a little cliche, but your success really is my success&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 21:21:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;deprecated&#34;&gt;DEPRECATED &lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Use at your own risk.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twitter is a good way to get publicity, but the biggest problem (at least for me) has always been keeping up with my tweets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, back in December of 2009, Google quietly added a feature to FeedBurner that allows you to connect your Twitter account to your RSS feed through FeedBurner. This is helpful since your posts are sent out to your Twitter followers almost instantly once you publish the post. Not to mention the backlinks which can&amp;rsquo;t hurt.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 10:35:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h3 id=&#34;or-why-nobody-cares&#34;&gt;Or why nobody cares.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was talking to a few internet marketers the other day and we were discussing what makes a &amp;ldquo;guru.&amp;rdquo; This is a topic that not many people really think about, at least not the people I talk to.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 10:32:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Most SEO &amp;ldquo;experts&amp;rdquo; recommend using keywords for the page titles. Don&amp;rsquo;t confuse the title tag with the meta tags, but you should still consider all search engine optimization within the context of the entire picture. The text that you place in the title tag (i.e. between the &lt;title&gt; and &lt;/title&gt; section) appears in the title bar of all modern browsers when the web page is viewed. Don&amp;rsquo;t be concerned that many browsers will also append what is in the title tag with their own name. An example of this is &amp;ldquo;Your Cool Title - Mozilla Firefox&amp;rdquo;. Just look at the top of this page to see what your browser adds.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 10:24:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I was at an event for internet marketers last weekend and a common theme came up. Who should I follow? I have to say the the IM (internet marketing) space is the most polluted narcissistic, good ol&amp;rsquo; boy club there is. People will argue with me, people that make more money than me will argue with me, that I am full of crap, and if you don&amp;rsquo;t promote anyone&amp;rsquo;s JV, then no one will promote yours. Well, guess what, I only promote the products of those I respect.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 20:59:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Economics is a new science and according to Heilbroner (1999) the  first economist was Adam Smith who lived in the late eighteenth century.  Economics is also called the “dismal” science, a phrase coined by  Thomas Carlyle in reaction to the pessimistic predictions of another  economist, Malthus (Dixon, n.d.). The phrase is also appropriate due to  most economists being absolute pragmatists and never promising anything  except every advantage having an associated disadvantage.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 20:47:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Supply and demand are probably the most recognized economics related   words. Even though they are commonly used, the true definition is   probably a little different from what most people think. Demand should   not be confused with want. People want many things, but if they are not   willing to pay for them, no demand exists. Similarly, supply deals with   salable or usable goods, and all other factors being equal, as demand   increases, the price goes up. Supply is more complicated than demand  and  an additional explanation shows that as long as long as costs stay  the  same, a higher price equals more profit. Therefore, a company will   increase output (Colander, 2004, p. 91).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 20:35:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Creative intelligence is simply how an individual perceives the world around them (Rowe, 2004). Rowe (2004) continues to point out that any act which is new and has a useful outcome can be considered as using creative intelligence . This opens the door for many different types of creativity and allows for &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; individuals to be creative. While certain individuals are more certainly more creative than others everyone has the potential for creativity, and no one falls into only one of the following four styles; all individuals have a somewhat unique combination of all four. As a side note, I am also familiar with the Kolbe index, which is a validated method of “measuring instinct-based actions” (kolbe.com, n.d.,  1).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;case-study---xyz-enterprises&#34;&gt;Case Study - XYZ Enterprises&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many factors go into entity selection and XYZ Enterprises has a few unique issues related to its business type. The main value in XYZ Enterprises is its copyrights. Copyrights are protected, in the United States, for 70 years after the death of the last surviving author (United States Copyright Office, 2006). This applies to any works created after December 31, 1977. If XYZ bought rights to any material created before January 1, 1978, the period would be shorter but still long enough to outlive most authors.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 18:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Even though not always seen as fair, alternative dispute resolution can save litigants money. Because of the money saving potential Cheeseman notes, “approximately 90% of all lawsuits are settled prior to trial” (2004, p. 4). Another consideration when deciding whether or not to go to trial is the potential financial return from any litigation. Court costs may be higher than any monetary award, and may damage the good-will or reputation of the organization.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:11:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, this is entirely fictitious, and any similarity to any guru marketers sales letter is entirely coincidental.&#xA;Also, if you can&amp;rsquo;t figure this out, there is no product, and no way to pay me money. This is parody, not reality, although it could be real&#xA;if you got on enough internet marketers lists.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;When entering a business negotiation you must be prepared. This is an introductory business negotiation case study that focuses on Juwan Howard and is based on publicly available information. This case study discusses the benefits, both tangible and intangible, and costs as they appear to relate to each party. As stated in the conclusion, some of this is speculation since I was not privy to anything but public information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laurette Lovell&lt;/strong&gt; (1869-1936):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Laurette Lovell arrived in Tucson with her family from California at the age of thirteen. The budding artist responded positively to the vastness of the landscape and the richness of the desert flora, as well as the romantic Spanish missions, Papago women and Apache warriors. However, she was particularly inspired by the ollas, or clay pots, crafted by the Tohono O’odham people, and began to decorate them with intricate scenes of ancient ruins and missions, Native American figures, and detailed desert scenery.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;For many years politicians have been complaining about the perceived over-paying of management in public companies. Everyone has heard about the huge golden handshakes given departing executives upon leaving companies they have destroyed. John McCain has stated “all aspects of a CEO&amp;rsquo;s pay, including any severance arrangements must be approved by shareholders” (Mason, 2008). An article in The Economist (2008) argues though that although managers pay has gone up faster than workers pay, managers pay is by and large based on financial returns.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogger.com/null&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:53:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The subject of “living wages” or higher minimum wages has sparked vigorous debate in every city or state where the issue has been put on the ballot. The subject invokes partisan politics with the left declaring “big business” only wants profit, and the right stating the market should determine wages. The truth economically tells a different story.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Guantanamera: A Film By Tomas Gutierrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:51:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By Jon Griffin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the last movie by the master of Cuban film director Tomas Gutierrez Alea (who already had lung cancer when he started this film). He also enlisted the help of a young protoge, Juan Carlos Tabio, who co-directed the movie with him. Tomas, also called Titon, was probably most famous for his 1993 movie Fresa y Chocolate or in English, Strawberry and Chocolate. Guantanmera was made in 1994.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;about-jon-griffin&#34;&gt;About Jon Griffin&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been playing music since I was 7 years old. I am also an avid cook and expert in beer, brewing and other beverages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the sites I own include; &lt;a href=&#34;https://salsablanca.com/&#34;&gt;salsablanca.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://jongriffinmusic.com&#34;&gt;Jon Griffin Music&lt;/a&gt; as well as &lt;a href=&#34;https://askthebeerguy.com/&#34;&gt;askthebeerguy.com&lt;/a&gt; and others. I went to Grove School of Music where I studied songwriting and composing and arranging (yes it was fun doing a big band chart every week!).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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