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Posted by David Tebbutt on 11th August 2008.
Over the weekend, I was invited to attend the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco (Sep 3-5). It would require a degree of diary shuffling and careful planning to justify my attendance. It still gobbles fuel, time and money so I’m still trying to decide what to do for the best.
No doubt the conference presentations [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 28th July 2008.
I spend far too much time poring over information provided by government departments, quangos and assorted institutions in the search for understanding and, maybe, even wisdom. But, too often, I hear the sound of axes grinding and I discover that I’m looking in the wrong places for a balanced view.
I won’t bore you with the [...]
Posted by Becky McCray on 23rd July 2008.
No one questions that small businesses are a key driver of the American economy. But US small business owners face a critical hurdle: healthcare costs.
The National Federation of Independent Business, quoted by Zane Safrit, has the count.
Of the 47 million Americans without health insurance, more than 28 million are small business owners, employees and their [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 6th July 2008.
Last week three reports dropped (digitally) into my lap. They were all on the subject of what ICT needs to do to keep a lid on our impact on the environment. Each was well written and well constructed but they all came from the ‘carbon is the enemy’ perspective although, to be fair, none of [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 17th March 2008.
Last week the free Metro newspaper carried a front-page chart of carbon emissions by country. It looked like a chance to take a pop at the Chinese and the Americans who top the league of polluters by pumping out around four times as much CO2 as their nearest ‘competitor’ in these dismal stakes, Russia.
It occurred [...]
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