26 Sep, 2011
Business Darla Moore Darla Moore School Moore School
COLUMBIA – Rain Friday forced the groundbreaking for the new Darla Moore School of Business indoors. The site of the future school is at Assembly and Greene Streets next to the Carolina Coliseum.
USC President Harris Pastides said, “We intend for this to a community building.”
The $106 million building will be more than classrooms. The building will include a lecture hall designed so the nearby School of Music can use it for performances. It will also include research labs and will have the flexibility to allow almost all classrooms to become distance learning centers. Its
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29 Jun, 2011
Business Google Places
If you attended our VAClassroom event last week, you’ll know that there’s a ton of buzz going on around Google Places for Business. This tool is positioned to be a Game Changer when it comes to location-based social networks and directories. Why thumb through the Yellow Pages when with the click of a mouse you can uncover even more detailed information about local brick and mortar businesses?
Now, an interesting question popped up during our event—whether or not an Internet-based business with no fixed address or a Virtual Assistant’s business with a private home address could use Google Places. It appe
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18 Mar, 2011
Business
Remember the Yellow Pages… you know, those thick yellow books with phone numbers and ads in them? In your virtual business activities, have you used one lately to actually find a phone number, or are they more likely to be used as a coaster for your cup of coffee or a paperweight for your desk?
These days, more and more people are moving online, a trend that could soon make the Yellow Pages obsolete. A December 2010 report from the Pew Research Center titled “Generations Online in 2010” lists certain key Internet activities that are becoming more uniformly popular across all age groups:
• Email • Search Engine use • Seeking health information • Getting news • Buying products • Making travel reservations or purchases • Doing online banking • Looking for religious information • Rating products, services, or people • Making online charitable donations • Downloading podcasts
And what does this recent trend mean? Well, with Internet activities increasing among both younger
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8 Sep, 2010
Business Google Tools
Do you love Google Tools as much as we do? Google has a talent for coming up with features that often cater to the needs of Virtual Assistants and Online Business owners and can even help brick and mortar businesses take more of their activities online. For example, the blog post “Free Google Tools Changing the Way I Do Business” talks about the way Google’s suite of tools can streamline people’s work in the Real Estate business, providing quick access to email and documents.
If one of your goals for the last part of 2010 is to maximize your business productivity so you can hit the ground running in 2011, Google Tools can help you do that.
So without further ado, here’s a list of the ones we’d highly recommend:
1. Gmail
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19 Aug, 2010
Business Business Analyst
Every day more and more BA’s I speak with are faced with the challenge of working with team members and business stakeholders that are geographically dispersed. For today’s post I wanted to share an excerpt from Barbara Carkenord’s book, Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis. Below are two topics, time zone differences and nationality and cultural differences, she covers in the Know Your Audience chapter where she provides great tips for working with dispersed/virtual teams.
Time Zone Differences
When stakeholders work in different time zones, scheduling phone calls and conference calls is challenging. Project team members may be asked to work different hours from those which they are normally accustomed. The PM and
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