Sunday, June 3, 2007

Newsberry was created for business professionals who desire a simpler way to send out mass emails while simultaneously adding a touch of design to it

Newsberry was created for business professionals who desire a simpler way to send out mass emails while simultaneously adding a touch of design to these emails. Send out your professional campains with elegance and ease, great for resturaunts, teams, marketing, tourism, and many others who display similar needs. Manage and monitor all of your massive emails, keep track of your businesses contacts and communication. You can manage your email lists by seperating them into catagories, so when you want to send out a particular email to a specific demographic or team, Newsberry makes it extremely easy for you to do so quickly.

“Newsberry is ideal for any business wanting to create or maintain a subscriber base through mass email campaigns. Our system was created to allow users the ability to send professional campaigns easily and quickly. Newsberry is a great choice for restaurants, professional organizations, educational facilities, marketing companies, tourism organizations and many others. We provide the necessary tools to help businesses with several email lists and separate list demographics. It's simple, if you send emails, or want to send emails, quickly, efficiently and in an affordable way then Newsberry is for you.”
More at:http://www.newsberry.com/

Interaction Is Connecting Your Customer

Interaction is the key to growth, especially on the net. Interaction chat has developed the ultimate tool for this very purpose. Upon entering your website, interaction chat will open up a chat box so that you can interact in real time with your potential customer. Get feedback, find out exactly what your customer wants. Customers can also initiate a conversation on their own time, or the customer can ask you to call him/her back. It's simple to implement too: each version, from the free Standard variety to the $49 a month Enterprise version is Ajax based; users needn't install any software and Interaction is compatible with Opera, Firefox, and IE; any computer with an internet connection can use it by inserting a snippet of code to the chosen website. Interaction is perfect for any sized companies and features a gamut of supported languages, smileys, private interaction between operators, transfers, searchable chat histories, SSL, canned messages, and tabs. Of course you'll have to pay for the premium features, but you're guaranteed to retain customers with a more proactive and personalized approach all affored by Interactive chat.


Sign up, include your code and start chatting with the visitors of your web site instantly! It's fast and easy, find out who is visiting your web site and would like to chat with you.
More at:http://www.interactionchat.com/

Seven new quality control tools, often called the seven management and planning (MP) tools

In 1976, the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) saw the need for tools to promote innovation, communicate information and successfully plan major projects. A team researched and developed the seven new quality control tools, often called the seven management and planning (MP) tools, or simply the seven management tools. Not all the tools were new, but their collection and promotion were.

The seven MP tools, listed in an order that moves from abstract analysis to detailed planning, are:

1. Affinity diagram: organizes a large number of ideas into their natural relationships.


2. Relations diagram: shows cause-and-effect relationships and helps you analyze the natural links between different aspects of a complex situation.


3. Tree diagram: breaks down broad categories into finer and finer levels of detail, helping you move your thinking step by step from generalities to specifics.


4. Matrix diagram: shows the relationship between two, three or four groups of information and can give information about the relationship, such as its strength, the roles played by various individuals, or measurements.


5. Matrix data analysis: a complex mathematical technique for analyzing matrices, often replaced in this list by the similar prioritization matrix. One of the most rigorous, careful and time-consuming of decision-making tools, a prioritization matrix is an L-shaped matrix that uses pairwise comparisons of a list of options to a set of criteria in order to choose the best option(s).


6. Arrow diagram: shows the required order of tasks in a project or process, the best schedule for the entire project, and potential scheduling and resource problems and their solutions.


7. Process decision program chart (PDPC): systematically identifies what might go wrong in a plan under development.
More at:http://www.asq.org/learn-about-quality/new-management-planning-tools/overview/overview.html

Knowledge Managment Tools

With the rapidly changing business world, companies are facing a host of challenging questions:

* How to encourage more dialogue among employees?
* How to encourage better interaction between and amongst staff and clients?
* How to find out who knows what I need to find out more about something?”
* How to find out what should I be reading to find out more about something?”
* How to find out where is a particular item of information or knowledge within the firm?”
* How to find out who would benefit from communicating with whom?”

# Given the messy human and social issues involved in these issues, firms are tempted to look for a short-cut, some kind of off-the-shelf product that could solve these issues for them, among them:

* Autonomy, Inc.(www.autonomy.com)
* BackWeb Technologies (www.backWeb.com)
* Communispace (www.communispace.com)
* Docushare Xerox Corporation (www.xerox.com)
* Eugenia Unity Desktop (www.engenia.com)
* Excalibur Technologies Corporation (www.excalib.com)
* Hummingbird (www.pcdocs.com)
* Intraspect Software, Inc.(www.intraspect.com)
* MAGI (www.projectmagi.com)
* Open Text Corporation (www.opentext.com)
* Plumtree Software (www.plumtree.com)
* SageMaker (www.sagemaker.com)
* Tacit Knowledge (www.tacit.com)

In considering whether to use such tools, some of the questions that should be addressed should include:

* What benefits should each tool should, assuming successful implementation particularly of the human factors, be able to offer?
* Particular attention should be given to the proviso namely "assuming successful implementation particularly of the human factors".
More at;http://www.stevedenning.com/new_knowledge_management_tool.html

Business Intelligence System: A New Tool for Competitive Advantage

Buy and read this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Business-Intelligence-System-Competitive-Advantage/dp/0814459293

Untapped Business Opporunities Which Is Next Big Thing On Internet Is Buying And Selling Of Advertrising Space

The next big Internet race might turn the buying and selling of advertising space on Web sites into the online equivalent of the pork-bellies pit.

Over the past few years, a host of small companies has started electronic exchanges where advertisers and Web sites can buy and sell online advertising space. The companies, with names like Right Media Inc., AdECN Inc., Turn Inc. and ContextWeb Inc., have been an obscure sideshow to a broader battle over Internet advertising.

That's changing quickly. The biggest Internet companies, including Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., are focusing attention and money on the emerging business, hoping to be first with the kind of large-scale, dynamic market for the ad industry that the Nasdaq market brought to stocks.

Over time there will be "a handful of winners that build very high-tech marketplaces," predicts Jim Barnett, chief executive of San Mateo, Calif.-based Turn. "That's what we're trying to do; that's what Google is trying to do."

Today, online publications and Internet companies have space for display ads built into their Web sites. Typically, that space gets filled with ads either the old-fashioned way -- through a salesperson -- or by a mix of computers and people called an ad network that automatically sells ads for the spot. But a significant portion of the available ad space -- called "inventory" -- remains unsold, or is sold for next to nothing. Enter the exchanges, which use automated systems to match buyers with sellers of unsold space.
More at:http://www.startupjournal.com/ecommerce/ecommerce/20070531-guth.html

China's New Virtual Universe

China has the world's largest population and one of the world's largest economies. Now it will get a massive virtual universe to match.

Swedish software company MindArk, which operates the online game Entropia Universe, has authorized a Beijing company to create what it calls the largest-ever virtual world for China, MindArk said Friday.

Entropia Universe, which has more than 580,000 players, is an online game set on a fictional planet in which users can work, meet friends, trade and buy virtual land with real cash.

Gothenburg-based MindArk said in a statement the Chinese virtual world will have a capacity of 7 million concurrent players and aims to draw 150 million users in total.

It said the new game is expected to generate $1 billion in economic activity every year.

Elina Heng, a spokeswoman for the new project, said MindArk aims to launch the new game in August 2008.

MindArk Chief Marketing Officer Carl Uggla said MindArk will train artists from its Chinese partner, Cyber Recreation Development Corp., in Gothenburg to design and run several planets within Entropia Universe.

"They will design the planets to suit China, Chinese users," Uggla said in a phone interview.

He declined to say how much the deal is worth.

The MindArk executive said it's up to Cyber Recreation Development to decide whether to allow the Chinese government to censor communications within the Chinese planets.

"That's something between them and the Chinese government," he said.

Cyber Recreation Development didn't immediately respond to faxed questions from The Associated Press.

Some have expressed worries that China's lack of Western-style civil liberties will carry over to the new virtual society.

Though China's communist government promotes Internet use, it has also set up an extensive surveillance and filtering system to prevent Chinese from accessing material considered obscene or politically subversive.

Hong Kong Apple Daily newspaper predicted Friday in a full-page story virtual police will exist in the Chinese game, and that it won't allow players to protest the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, which killed hundreds of people.

Uggla said Friday, "we don't have any police force in Entropia Universe."

More at:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/01/tech/main2873578.shtml