ewed, even monitored daily. An enlightened company will use what they read only to identify problems early on, not as a spying tool. Morale issues, for example, are very prone to getting worse,Instant messages don't disappear when you close the Sametime (or other) instant messaging window, not in the corporate world anyway. Just about all corporations back up their network systems' activity daily. If yours doesn't, better quietly start job hunting. The firm is going to crash and burn some day soon.

What corporations do with instant messaging varies widely. For example:

An enlightened employer's policy may be to ignore the instant messaging, knowing that all employees need to let off steam. Company management is well aware that the personal comments themselves can be retrieved (through the instant messaging logs) when needed, as in the event of a lawsuit.

At other companies, the instant messages are regularly reviewed, even monitored daily. An enlightened company will use what they read only to identify problems early on, not as a spying tool. Morale issues, for example, are very prone to getting worse,

Sales for Service Businesses considered
A service business is much different than other businesses. When designing a sales program and strategy for a service business or an on-site service business it makes sense to know your target market and which types of customers will provide your company with the most profits. As a salesperson it behooves you to study the customers and the competition's offerings.Cold

ctivity daily. If yours doesn't, better quietly start job hunting. The firm is going to crash and burn some day soon.

What corporations do with instant messaging varies widely. For example:

An enlightened employer's policy may be to ignore the instant messaging, knowing that all employees need to let off steam. Company management is well aware that the personal comments themselves can be retrieved (through the instant messaging logs) when needed, as in the event of a lawsuit.

At other companies, the instant messages are regularly reviewed, even monitored daily. An enlightened company will use what they read only to identify problems early on, not as a spying tool. Morale issues, for example, are very prone to getting worse,

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The economist Paul A. Samuelson once said, “Good questions outrank easy answers.”It's true. I found that a set of good questions about your prospect will uncover the revealing insights that you need to craft powerful sales copy. Yet these types of questions are hard to find. Few marketers even know what they are. The best marketers know them through sensitivity, instinc

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An enlightened employer's policy may be to ignore the instant messaging, knowing that all employees need to let off steam. Company management is well aware that the personal comments themselves can be retrieved (through the instant messaging logs) when needed, as in the event of a lawsuit.

At other companies, the instant messages are regularly reviewed, even monitored daily. An enlightened company will use what they read only to identify problems early on, not as a spying tool. Morale issues, for example, are very prone to getting worse,

Accountability and Mega Projects
The past few years have seen an increase in the number of petroleum mega projects being proposed and executed. Record oil prices have given rise to increasingly ambitious and complex international alliances in the energy industry. These large, long term and capital intensive projects carry a great deal of cost and schedule risk which is very challenging to mitigate. We have f

sonal comments themselves can be retrieved (through the instant messaging logs) when needed, as in the event of a lawsuit.

At other companies, the instant messages are regularly reviewed, even monitored daily. An enlightened company will use what they read only to identify problems early on, not as a spying tool. Morale issues, for example, are very prone to getting worse,

Selling Stories to the Media-Five Points to Consider
How do you make one of the daily newspapers or the TV channels do a story on you, your business, your company, or your client? What does it take to sell a story to a journalist? You can send off an email or pick up the phone and speak about your story idea to the journalist. But will the journalist bite it?These are some key points that I gathered from my interactions w

ewed, even monitored daily. An enlightened company will use what they read only to identify problems early on, not as a spying tool. Morale issues, for example, are very prone to getting worse, if a bad manager's high-handed tactics are permitted to continue. Such eventually huge problems may cost a company hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Use Caution Before Copying Instant Messages

Copying and pasting someone's informal comments to you is akin to taping a telephone conversation without the permission of both parties. That is, it's highly unethical, and in the case of the latter, definitely illegal without a court order. Or it was, until the current Administration's approach to civil liberties. State laws may be more stringent than Federal laws, however.

Someone new to the corporate world or to IM may think nothing of copying instant messages and pasting them into a database as "proof" of what they were told