that it takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you

Despite the modern obsession with physical presence at offices (also known as ‘presenteeism’), very few of the great worked long hours.

The days of the great contain a surprising variety of activities

China celebrates its status as world's number one air polluter

Ryan doesn’t believe in them. He thinks bloggers should do series posts instead. In fact, he doubts ebooks have much of a future.

For the customer, with a member site you get not just words and pictures but video, audio, discussion, web conferencing, chat, and maybe tools and utilities also. An ebook is capable of more than words and pictures but rarely is.

Mixx is a relatively unknown Social Bookmarking site.

Obviously most people are going to ask how much traffic it sends. On that score it is not brilliant in comparison to Digg or even StumbleUpon, of course not, it is early days, but it does send a bit. It fact for me it has performed better than Reddit and Sphinn, which are sites often recommended in the SMO space

Doing even a few of these things will set you apart from the vast majority of people who view social network sites as toys and networking as “just for fun” (though it can be fun, too).

Social networking sites have a reputation as being huge time wasters, and for most people, they are. If you can afford that luxury, more power to you; for the rest of you, really think about what social networking can do for you and focus your energies to making that work.

Once you are happy with your widget you can publish it to grab the embed code. It works just like YouTube etc where you are given some HTML to put into your website or blog post.

The main draw will be the items found in the Components area, from images through to more dynamic content like Google Charts and RSS feeds.

The following Google search tips are based on my own experience and things that I actually find useful.  The list is by no means comprehensive.  But, I assure you that by learning and using the 12 tips below, you’ll rank up there with the best of the Google experts out there. 

Sergio Ferreira is an Electricity & Energy Project Manager at the European Copper Institute (ECI), a non-profit organisation involved in the support and expansion of copper and copper alloys markets in Europe. An environmental engineer, he graduated in 2004 from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has worked in a lobbying organisation and in the European Commission, Directorate-General Energy & Transport on energy efficiency and renewable energy sources, and his main area is ecodesign.   • Another is Hans De Keulenaer, who works with the European Copper Institute as a Programme Manager in Electricity & Energy. He has a Master's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from the University of Louvain in Belgium. With more than 20 years' experience in running pan-European and global marketing campaigns for companies and international organisations in the industrial sector, he is currently working on sustainable energy systems, concentrating on the quality of supply, smart and age-adaptive building installations, energy regulation, and the use of novel Web-based technologies for B2B marketing.

Google just unveiled a bunch of new features. You can see them for yourself in the embedded presentation above, which itself is one of the additions.

The amount of people that V connects with on a daily basis makes me (a real introvert) want to curl up in the fetal position and rock backwards and forwards. Sure I have a lot of people read my blogs - but she’s at her best when she’s surrounded by people in real life

V isn’t one to hold back on trying new things

she’s enthusiastic/positive

here is just one problem. How did these delegates, from around the world, get to the conference? For the most part, they flew over land and sea in airplanes. Airplanes are known to be one of the bigger offenders of CO2 emissions. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that air travel causes 3.5 percent of global warming. This could increase to 15 percent by 2050.When landed, some potentates traveled by gas-guzzling limousine.

addressed the conference in a 3-D animated avatar version of himself. In doing this, Markey saved an estimated 5.36 tons of CO2 emissions. Citizens from many different countries are reported to have attended the virtual Bali conference the same way Markey chose to attend.

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There are plenty of ways to share your PowerPoint presentations online. You can upload them to a site like Docstoc or SlideShare, or you can use a program like PPT to YouTube to put them on — you guessed it — YouTube.

I had a realization. Even the biggest geeks in the world still like to meet face to face.

Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas will hold an internet chat on Monday 15 October to coincide with the first international Blog Action Day, which is dedicated to the environment. The chat will take place between 1400 and 1700 on the Commissioner's blog site and will be conducted in English, French, German and Greek.

a good list of the ten online tools that he just can't live without: Firefox, ScribeFire, and Skype among others. It's amazing how much we can get done using the various fantastic tools that are available to us free and clear on the web

Keep it short. The survey should take only a couple of minutes to complete