Recent Articles
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7 ways to cultivate creativity in business
Emma FitzpatrickPR firms and businesses alike are full of brilliant thinkers, so let's help them have more fun and exercise their creativity — which will ultimately affect the bottom line. Here are seven tips to integrate into your business to have a bit more fun and a whole lot of ground-breaking ideas.
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5 ways owners and facility managers can increase energy efficiency
Joy BurgessWhether you are a business owner or a facility manager, maximizing energy efficiency is important to your bottom line. Improving energy efficiency not only helps the environment, but it also provides significant savings. If you are reducing electricity usage or cutting heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) energy expenses, use the following ideas to improve the sustainability and energy efficiency of your buildings or business.
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3 questions to avert church ‘shutdown’
Mark MacDonaldFor the first time in 17 years, the U.S. government has shut down. Many thought it would never happen; some thought it was inevitable. All because people can’t agree to move forward in certain ways. And sadly, it could happen to your church.
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Empowering connected learning in TESOL
Beth CrumplerEducators of TESOL are a globally connected audience by means of the profession. Connected Educator Month is an excellent time to expand connected learning in the field of TESOL through globally connected interactions that transcend content area boundaries. Through interdisciplinary connectedness, Teachers of English to speakers of other languages can expand English development through multifaceted learning means.
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How the government shutdown affects healthcare
Pamela Lewis DolanThe Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, is at the center of the budget debate that has resulted in a government shutdown. But one of the ironies of the situation is that the program will remain funded. It even reached a major milestone — the launch of the insurance exchanges — on Oct. 1, the same day other areas of government were forced to place employees on furlough.
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Disc golf etiquette: Issuing warnings
Justin WeilacherDisc golf and ball golf have in common game parameters, scoring mechanism and competition formats. We also share the self-regulated nature of a "gentleman's game," gentle-person's game anyway. The players have the responsibility of scoring and policing the game. If an indiscretion occurs, it is part of the group's responsibility to help inform, regulate and penalize players.
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5 great interview questions
Harry J. FriedmanThere are many people who just know how to interview well. They'll razzle and dazzle you with what seem to be all the right answers. So how do you get past that and find out more about the person behind those baby blue, green or brown eyes? Here are a few great questions you can ask salespeople that do not usually elicit pat answers and will provide you with some great insights on the person behind the applicant.
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Location, location, location: The global downtown trend
Bambi MajumdarThe last decade saw a slow, steady shift of corporate America to the suburbs. The primary reason was financial since the economy remained unstable. It made sense to set up shop in cheaper locations where the overheads didn't eat into the trickling revenues, where businesses could house a larger workforce and where they could even hope to get cheaper labor.
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Government shutdown will impact travel in a big way
Suzanne MasonWhen the government last shut down in 1995-96, it cost U.S. taxpayers $1.4 billion, the Congressional Research Service estimates. It’s too early to tell how much the 2013 shutdown will cost taxpayers, but travel will take a significant hit. Here’s what travelers need to know.
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Fantasy football: The future of scouting
Nick MerrillSundays used to hold a mystique for much of the country as pro football teams met on the gridiron. Upsets were stunning, everyone had a favorite team, and if your team lost, the defeat felt personal. For an ever-growing number of fans, the dynamic has changed with the advent of fantasy football. Your team is comprised of players from across the league, so loyalty and fandom is focused on individual players, and each loss is personal. So how will fantasy football further change the future of watching football?