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New Capabilities We Plan To Develop in 2011
Posted on Sunday, January 9, 2011 - 20:54 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
To ensure that conversations and requests for help were productive, Anthony Scampavia kept a question at the top of his whiteboard in his various offices at Cisco for more than a dozen years: What is the problem you are trying to solve? Here are three problems we have identified and capabilities we plan to develop this year to manage them: Problem: Rich audio, video, and other multi-media are clearly emerging as a requirement for effective business communication.
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Reminder: “Tips for Keeping Informed” Webinar Thu-Sep-23
Posted on Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 17:51 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Just a quick reminder that I will be presenting on “Feed Readers De-Mystified: Tips for Keeping Informed” this Thursday, September 23, 12:00-12:45 PM PDT. If you are not using feeds and alerts to track your competition, stay on top of  developments at major customers, and keep abreast of significant developments in your industry, then you are missing out on low cost–and often free–methods for keeping informed. Register here:  People On the Go’s Free Lunchtime Webinar “Tips For Keeping Informed“
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Feed Readers De-Mystified at Sep-23 Lunch & Learn Webinar
Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 - 00:57 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I will be giving a short presentation on  “Feed Readers De-Mystified–Tips For Keeping Informed” at the September 23 Lunch & Learn Webinar hosted by People on the Go. Cost: No Charge When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM PDT Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/151449787 I will outline some important ways to monitor information about your business and industry on the web.
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Interesting Trend: Nightowl Co-Working
Posted on Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 20:16 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Jenna Wortham’s “Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours” in the New York Times on July 25 highlighted an interesting new trend in co-working: the 10pm to 4am shift. Profiling the “New York Nightowls” (tagline “New York Nightowls is a late night co-working club for professionals”) she opens with: (hyperlinks added) After college, most people do their best to avoid having to pull any more all-nighters.
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Matt Perez on How Nearsoft Leverages Yammer
Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 03:30 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I met Matt Perez in 2003 just as I was starting SKMurphy.  It was the tail end of nuclear winter in Silicon Valley and folks were trying to figure out what was next (unlike now where it’s pretty clear what’s next for a while in California, more of the same if we are lucky–flat is the new up).
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Articles, Ideas, and Books That Have Changed My Life As an Entrepreneur
Posted on Sunday, February 7, 2010 - 00:57 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
This is a start articulating a set of resources that are for the most part not yet part of entrepreneurial thinking but that have had a significant impact on my perspective.
Sean Murphy
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Three Useful Search Tools: Keskese, Surf Canyon, and WhosTalkin
Posted on Friday, January 8, 2010 - 20:37 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I have been using three tools on a regular basis that I think complement Google: WhosTalkin searches a variety of conversations including twitter and blog feeds. It’s handy, quick and claims “Our search and sorting algorithms combine data taken from over 60 of the Internet’s most popular social media gateways.” SearchCanyon is useful if you really want to drill down on a topic, you can click on intermediate results that were useful to refine your search.
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SKMurphy Featured In Case Study For Central Desktop
Posted on Monday, January 4, 2010 - 13:56 by Theresa Shafer from the site SKMurphy
SKMurphy was interviewed and selected as one of a dozen case studies on Document Management Solutions for Consulting Groups by Central Desktop. Read about our innovative approach at “Document Management Solution helps SKMurphy Consulting Group Increase Productivity.” We make some strong claims in the case study: Increased productivity - approximately 5 to 10 times more productive Significantly sped up decision making time on projects Eliminated version control issues for faster review cycles The baseline is E-Mailing documents and phone tag.
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Maintaining Perspective on the Entpreneurial Roller Coaster
Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 20:18 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
We had a great Bootstrapper Breakfast® in Sunnyvale this morning. One of the comments from an entrepreneur who was doing his first venture and making good progress was that he hadn’t anticipated how much of an emotional roller coaster doing a startup was with “higher highs and lower lows” than his earlier jobs. One technique you can use to maintain perspective is the “Morning Pages” approach concept from “The Artist’s Way at Work” Write three pages in longhand first thing in the morning every day.
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20 Ways To Generate Leads
Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 00:39 by Theresa Shafer from the site SKMurphy
Most entrepreneurs we talk to these days is asking “how can I bring more customers into my business?” There are no quick or easy answers here. Just some encouragement to try a new technique or two. You will need to develop a multi-pronged approach for your business. Sometime it takes thinking of creative ways to expand your current techniques. There are many ways to generate new leads, none are right or wrong.
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