Archive for May, 2007

The Telework Consortium is a non profit trying to promote telework. They workwith public agencies and private industry in coming up with telework solutions.
Part of that is monitoring broadband availability.
They work mostly with government agencies and here’s the current “state of the art”
One of the things they’re working on is a national web based information […]

Mom4Life.com ships 50 packages per day and averages 88,000 unique visitors per month. As a result it’s time to move from the home that spawned the home based business to more room in Idaho.
You can read more about their move here… It’s an inspiring story of home based success.
Image of Heather and her family (creator […]

According to the StartUpJournal American men in their 30’s are worse off than their own fathers. This changes a trend of children doing better than their fathers economically.
In 2004, the median income for a man in his 30s, a good predictor of his lifetime earnings, was $35,010, the study says, 12% less than for men in […]

Japan is now moving to more telecommuting not just to avoid a pandemic flu outbreak but to adjust to an aging society and to encourage women to continue working after giving birth according to reports.
The government aimed to raise the number of Japanese teleworkers to about 20 percent of the entire workforce by 2010, from […]

I’ve had a great home office phone these last 2 years… a 2.4 gig Siemens.
It was great for the first 5 or 6 years.
This weekend the batteries finally died.
I went to Wal Mart but then I found… the batteries were Nickel Cadmium.
Not a battery like that in sight!
For that matter, not even a phone like […]

You can lose a fortune on pay per click ad costs. Many people tell you how well their affiliate page “converts” and then gleefully hope you’ll invest YOUR hard earned money in promoting their site.
If it converts that well and is such a “slam dunk”, why don’t they just do a public stock offering and […]

Microsoft unveiled one of their “secret” new projects today: “Surface”
No mouse or keyboard is required… simply human touch.
The immediate problems I see are
1) People will think it’s  a hard surface scratch it all up and otherwise destroy it in short order.
2) The thing I like about my keyboard is that I don’t see my fingers typing […]

Please note that a Tuberculosis Warning has been issued for persons travelling in the same airliner as a man with drug resistant tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is passed through the air and when it can be treated by medication, treatment requires 6 to 24 months!
Working at home or telecommuting is already being listed as a fall back response […]

From Steve Weber
Any unknown author can put his eBook up for sale on Amazon.com who meets three basic requirements:
1. You own the rights to the book (your question implies that you do, and have not sold the rights to another entity).
2. You must supply an ISBN (International Standard Book Number). You can purchase an ISBN […]

From the Kauffman Foundation
465,000 people creating new businesses each month in 2006! Now, if they’d all just read this blog…They must be reading Dane’s.
According to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, the only annual study to measure business start-up activity for the entire U.S. adult population at the individual owner level, Asians, Latinos and immigrants […]