Labor's National Broadband Network opens for business | The Australian

Labor's National Broadband Network opens for business | The Australian: "LABOR'S $36 billion National Broadband Network is officially open for business.

From Saturday, up to 14,000 residents and business owners in five mainland First Release Sites will be able to sign-up for commercial telephone and broadband services on the super-fast fibre network."

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Business Mentors: How to Get The Best Out Of Your Mentor

Business Mentors: How to Get The Best Out Of Your Mentor: "Start-ups of Melbourne rejoice! As we reported yesterday, start-up incubator PushStart revealed that it is to hold its first mentor speed dating event, Mentor Live, in the city next week. "

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Business Mentors: How to Get The Best Out Of Your Mentor

Business Mentors: How to Get The Best Out Of Your Mentor: "Start-ups of Melbourne rejoice! As we reported yesterday, start-up incubator PushStart revealed that it is to hold its first mentor speed dating event, Mentor Live, in the city next week. "

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Small business strategies and challenges - Fiji Times Online

Small business strategies and challenges - Fiji Times Online: "Last week we had the Fiji Economy Update, a conference jointly organised by the School of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, of the University of the South Pacific and the Australian National University."

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5 Key Factors to Successful Strategic Planning

5 Key Factors to Successful Strategic Planning: "Organizations around the globe develop strategic plans. They carefully create a vision of their future and the strategies needed to get there. But many fail to realize their vision and fail to deliver the expected strategic results. Unfortunately, executive teams cannot pinpoint the reasons for this dilemma so they repeat the strategic planning cycle over and over, always hoping that the next strategic planning session will bring better results. And of course it doesn't. In our experience, there are 5 critical factors that will ensure your strategic plans are successfully implemented."

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Online strategy boosts bottom line | Sunshine Coast Business | Business News for Sunshine Coast, Australia | Sunshine Coast Daily

Online strategy boosts bottom line | Sunshine Coast Business | Business News for Sunshine Coast, Australia | Sunshine Coast Daily: "FOR every business that has a Facebook page - and there are many - there is an affiliated competition to gain as many Likes as possible.

But now, Sunshine Coast digital agency Piper Digital Marketing has released details of a story that proves that social media strategy actually works to improve the bottom line."

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Your website checklist | Flying Solo

Your website checklist | Flying Solo: "If you’re one of the many soloists who look after your own website, this checklist will help make sure it’s in good shape."

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The NBN is coming, be prepared! | Dynamic Business – Small Business Advice – Forums | Dynamic Business Australia

The NBN is coming, be prepared! | Dynamic Business – Small Business Advice – Forums | Dynamic Business Australia: "While it may be the better part of a decade before the NBN’s fibre and wireless tendrils provide all Australians with high-speed broadband, the future has a habit of arriving faster than we plan for. So it’s critical today that businesses start thinking about the impact the NBN will have on their marketplace and how they operate."

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Testing Your Website: Ruslan Kogan on How to Assess the Merits of Your Website - Internet

Testing Your Website: Ruslan Kogan on How to Assess the Merits of Your Website - Internet: "f I had a dollar for each time someone asked me what I thought of their website, you would probably see me on the Forbes Rich List this year."

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Seven ways the young rich are doing it differently

Seven ways the young rich are doing it differently: "One of the most striking aspects of the new ‘Young Rich’ list from BRW magazine is the number of new names."

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The future of B2B social media marketing - Social Media Marketing Press

The future of B2B social media marketing - Social Media Marketing Press: "Talking about social media marketing, many people tends to use it as a tool for B2C enterprises. A study of a social media use might change your idea on social media marketing. The statistics demonstrates that North American B2B companies are more likely to introduce social media tools compared with B2C companies."

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Online gamers crack AIDS virus enzyme puzzle at University of Washington | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au

Online gamers crack AIDS virus enzyme puzzle at University of Washington | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au: ""Games provide a framework for bringing together the strengths of computers and humans. The results in this week's paper show that gaming, science and computation can be combined to make advances that were not possible before.""

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Vision for a Digital Economy • Telecom Trends

Vision for a Digital Economy • Telecom Trends: "We envision a Canada where our digital infrastructure is on the leading edge and our businesses and consumers are early adopters. Where our workers have the skills to thrive in this digital economy, and our companies are the technology manufacturers and suppliers to the world."

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Regional SMEs lagging behind online trend | Dynamic Business – Small Business Advice – Forums | Dynamic Business Australia

Regional SMEs lagging behind online trend | Dynamic Business – Small Business Advice – Forums | Dynamic Business Australia: "SMEs in regional Australia are missing out on the opportunities provided by the online world, with research finding very few implement digital strategies or engage with their customers on social media."

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Online grocer to nibble on supermarket dominance

Online grocer to nibble on supermarket dominance: "The battle for the billions of dollars spent at Australian supermarkets every month has intensified today with the launch of another dedicated online grocery store by the nation's largest daily deal website."

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Facebook 'won't stop' until small business is hooked on their advertising | News.com.au

Facebook 'won't stop' until small business is hooked on their advertising | News.com.au: "FACEBOOK is offering small businesses in the US the chance to advertise with them for free."

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Five tips to creating new habits

Five tips to creating new habits: "I used to have an employee called Tim, who would dash over to a customer's site the moment they had a problem and fix it for them. Great customer service!"

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AFP: Facebook 'App Economy' creates 182,000 US jobs: study

AFP: Facebook 'App Economy' creates 182,000 US jobs: study: "The ecosystem of applications built for Facebook has created at least 182,000 jobs and contributes billions of dollars in wages and benefits to the US economy, according to a study published Monday."

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Willunga now officially online at high speed - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Willunga now officially online at high speed - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "South Australia is now officially connected to the National Broadband Network.

Some residents and businesses at Willunga have been testing the high-speed network in recent months but all residents in the area on Adelaide;s southern fringe now have a chance to connect."

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Top 10 start-up incubators - Funding

Top 10 start-up incubators - Funding: "Start-up incubators are not exactly new. The concept of helping foster promising young businesses formally kicked off in 1959, when the Batavia Industrial Center in New York opened its doors for the first time.

However, the format of business incubators has changed over the years. Some offer seed funding, while others just offer a space to work or mentorship."

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National Broadband Issues & Information | Internet Innovation Alliance

National Broadband Issues & Information | Internet Innovation Alliance: "65%.

That’s the percentage of adult Internet users now connected to others via social networking sites, according to a study by Pew Research Center released late last month. And surprisingly, it’s not those just past the threshold into adulthood who are jumping in the online social world the most, but rather the Boomers, whose usage on a typical day jumped a whopping 60% in the last year."

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Telegraph 1000: Britain's Brightest Businesses - Telegraph

Telegraph 1000: Britain's Brightest Businesses - Telegraph: "A celebration of the 1,000 mid-sized companies which have weathered the economic storm and are set to be the foundation of the UK's recovery"

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iTWire - Portable devices on the house: Australian employers refuse BYOD to employees

iTWire - Portable devices on the house: Australian employers refuse BYOD to employees: "A new study today revealed most employers, in Australia and New Zealand, did not accept BYOD (bring-your-own-device) practices and still preferred to provide their employees with corporate’s mobile devices when needed."

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Willunga IT firm uses NBN to help customers globally

Willunga IT firm uses NBN to help customers globally: "VANREE Software Consultancy, a technology firm in the NBN first release town of Willunga, SA, is using the National Broadband Network to provide support services for customers as far away as Beijing.

A customer of Internode, VANREE Software provides a broad range of technology support services, from supplying computers and ensuring Internet access to maintaining network security and developing specialised applications."

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Five Essentials of Defending Your Digital Reputation - The Source - WSJ

Five Essentials of Defending Your Digital Reputation - The Source - WSJ: "My recent Harvard Business Review article, “Reputation Warfare”, described various corporate strategies for countering online assaults. Given the often anonymous, easily accessible and rapidly disbursable nature of these attacks, every one of them has the potential to become a crisis, grabbing headlines and spreading instantaneously to millions across Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks.

How well a company manages such events not only prevents against unwarranted damage to its reputation, but also adds value in its own right. A company that handles itself online says much about its ability to execute in this modern age and helps define how a company is perceived."

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