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Historical Look at Internet Speed

Cindy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:06:05 +0000

Many of us use our PCs, Macs or even cell phones to access the internet every single day. But have you ever thought to ask yourself how it all works? The Internet started as a small internetwork of military computers. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, laid the foundations for the modern Internet we know today.

By 1992, the network bandwidth of the Internet had increased 20 million times the bandwidth seen in 1964. In November of 1992 Delphi was the first commercial online service offering Internet access, and by May 1995 AOL, Prodigy and CompuServce came online.

Dial up Internet access started the modern Internet speed revolution. It was the only method of Internet access in 1994. Dial up allows a user to access the Internet through an analog modem and traditional telephone system. Dial up speeds began at 0.1 kbits per second. One kbits is equal to 1000 bytes of information per second.

Over the next few years Dial up slowly increased speeds up to 56 kbps. Did you know, in the 1990’s U. S. Federal Law limited Dial up Internet speeds to 53 kbits per second? The U. S. Government feared Hackers could breach U.S. Government networks and disappear before they could be traced by the proper authorities.

Dial up still depends on phone lines for the transporting data, and is used often in rural areas today. Soon dial up may become obsolete and will be replaced by Broadband Internet Access. A broadband connection allows for the transfer of data at a much higher rate than through analog.

Broadband is generally defined as data transfer rates greater than 256 kbit per second. There is not an official minimum bandwidth for broadband. Broadband internet access can range from 64 kbits per second up to 4.0 Megabytes of data per second.

Internet speeds continue to increase to meet customer demands. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are building faster networks with the development of new technologies. By 1996 the first mobile phone had Internet connectivity, and not long after in 2008 studies showed that more people accessed the Internet via mobile phones than PCs. The development of 4G networks, which set peak speed requirements at 100 Mbit/s, help users connect to the Internet at speeds never before seen with a mobile device.

Looking back at the history of internet speeds we can see just how far we’ve come since the 1960’s. Where do you think data speed transfer rates will be in 5-10 years?

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The Role of Plastic Cards in Business

Cindy — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Theories of business are everywhere. Most current theories attempt to take into account the rapidly changing nature of the marketplace as both technology and globalization grow at astonishing rates. It is almost impossible to predict what the business world will look like fifty years from now, just as a few decades ago it was impossible to foresee that business in the early 21st century would be ruled by the plastic card .

It may seem like an oversimplification, but it is current reality. Most business transactions that occur in the industrialized, technology-driven first world involve at least one plastic card. This is usually the credit, charge, debit or other bank card that releases funds to pay for the goods or services rendered. Whether the card is being physically swiped through a machine or the data entered into a computer terminal, the plastic card is the key to purchase. This also includes gift cards and prepaid cards for minutes, downloads or other credits that are then exchanged for services.

The other main use of plastic in business transaction is the membership or discount card or key tag. These enable the holder to access special rates, discounts, or even purchase products and services that aren’t available to the general public. Membership may be the result of a selection process, annual fee, or simply exchanging personal data for a piece of plastic.

Companies also use plastic cards for identification badges , access keys, or to track employee activities, supplies, expenses, and other data.

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Advanced Education Degrees in Leadership

Cindy — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:00:00 +0000

The business world has become truly global as it undergoes nothing shy of a complete revolution in everything from staffing to technology to the models and principles underlying various industries. As a result, most companies need strong, qualified leaders who can navigate these changing waters and help steer them out of the recession and into the new global economy. Business professionals who proved themselves under the old models may find that they lack the skills and understanding to handle this new environment. As a result, many are heading back to school to obtain advanced degrees in leadership in a variety of fields.

There are, of course, many leadership courses and degrees offered in business management programs. An alternative path is to study leadership through the lens of education. A Doctorate of Education in Leadership offers a unique perspective on the role of and strategies employed by successful leaders in a everything from health care to business. Students can enroll in online edd programs that are designed for working students.

A good leadership program is going to help students develop the skills necessary to be effective leaders. This includes communication, self-assessment, budgeting, team building, and goal setting. It also encompasses theories in organizational change and management, legal principles, and ethics. There should also be strategies for assessing and implementing technological systems.

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Freaky Team Building

Cindy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:57:51 +0000

Old time freak shows are a popular pastime of my friend, Antonio. He works at an old movie theatre that shows the classics and other forgotten films on Thursdays and Fridays at a special midnight showing. He named it the hour of good and evil films. Recently, the theatre had a showing of the film ‘Freaks.’ He has the movie Freaks and several documentaries detailing the circus and carnival way in general. He actually has one about the film. In it an old roustabout in a denim shirt and face lined like a road from the many roads he no doubt has rode about, spoke about the freaks he would meet along his travels from circus to circus, city to city, each one waiting to be delighted with the laughs and frights a circus could alternatively provide. A lot of them he claimed were quite the prima donnas. Each entertainer thought their show and deformity was the most interesting and brought about the largest crowds. There was not a lot of room for solidarity or any team building programs to be sure. But then again, the corporate world and its offerings were not available to them. Most of them he said preferred being freaks because it was about the only job they could get. No one else would hire them for what others might call normal jobs: a cashier with no legs would not do the old days before discrimination laws, for instance. It could be quite lucrative for those with deformities and good managers too.

There was one freak my friend was in particular enthralled with. Her name was Frances O’Connor . She was an armless woman who could shoot a gun with deadly accuracy, and drink a glass of wine like an elegant movie star. She was quite beautiful, which is why my friend adores her. He is still young enough to get away with hanging a homemade poster of her at home above his bed just like the hundreds of boys throughout the years to idolize beautiful women, from Marilyn Monroe to Pam Grier.

Within a couple of weeks, their theatre is undergoing leadership training . He plans to stay out of the way of the managers and hole up in the projector room: some of them believe their leadership is just fine, thank you very much, but Antonio knows better. Either way, he and a picture of Frances will be up in the projector room this Friday: he put a picture of her in one of those homemade keychain charms for his collection of keys, watching ‘The Women’.

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Passing It Along

Cindy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:49:22 +0000

Growing up in Canada is something that’s rather impossible to forget. The neighborhood where your parents live will always hold a special place in the heart, being the seat of so many first memories and first experiences of the world. After the initial memories of sensations, of the first time you accidentally touch something hot, or the feeling of snow on bare skin, there’s some dim memories of how the parents related to the people in the community. There were favorite neighborhood dogs, grocery stores, and postal carriers, and all of these things go into some great memory bank somewhere. It takes awhile, sometimes a decade or more, to even realize that these memories of a community are very special.

It’s probably because there is a sense of community here. It may not be the same as it was during the last generation, or the one before that, but it’s certainly still here. It’s one of the things that makes Canada such an attractive place to live in the world. It’s something that they seem to understand, too, at TransGlobe Property Management. They’re very convenient, and very friendly, and have thousands of properties to choose from, but there’s a very personal touch here that lets you know there is a sense of what the communities and the neighborhoods here are really like.

It’s difficult to find this kind of commitment and compassion for place these days. Based on the memories of childhood, there seems to be no better place for this kind of commitment. We have something special here in Canada. TransGlobe Property Management has a particularly splendid staff, who are well-trained and efficient, but they also live and work here, too, and share the same enthusiasm for place. This is one thing that can make it easier to make the transition from one place of business or living to another, because enthusiasm can remind us of where we came from, and what we can pass along.

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Customer Care Skills in Essential Services

Cindy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:56:16 +0000

Providing excellent customer service is an essential aspect of all businesses, whether they are direct service oriented or not. Retail companies are fully aware of the demanding need for excellent customer service while some of the more consumer removed or even essential non optional oriented service providers take a more relaxed or even dismissive attitude about the need for excellent service to costumers. Steven Barbarich is one of the ethical business professionals that understands that respect for the customer is an essential foundational aspect to any business or industry.

When providing an essential need such as health care, legal services and even utilities, maintaining a respectful customer service perspective often takes a back seat to busy schedules and job related stress. However, this does not mitigate or reduce the need for customer respect and great service in these fields. It is easy to understand that the medical field requires attention to the service of patients or clients and this has traditionally been referred to as bedside manner. However, it has traditionally been left to the discretion of the doctor or nurse, whomever is providing the service. In addition, it has frequently be viewed as the nurse’s job to provide the personal care for the patient while the doctor issues diagnosis and treatment plans.

This is an unfortunate perspective when considered in context with the importance of the doctor patient relationship. Great trust is required on the part of the patient to reveal detailed personal information and this is not easily established when a patient is forced to wait an hour for their scheduled appointment and then only sees a doctor for up to five minutes. In today’s medical field, the patient is assuming greater responsibility with their own health care and this requires more respect and interest on the part of the professional care provider.

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TransGlobe Continues the Work

Cindy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:40:48 +0000

With an excellent record for customer service, we’ve been serving the Canadian communities for over 15 years, and there’s a bright future ahead, to accentuate this fantastic present. We have thousands of rental properties, for business and residential use, and we have buildings all over Canada. Certainly there will be something for you, and chances are, there will be many choices. Once you start browsing through our extremely user-friendly database, you’ll see all the possibilities, and may even start decorating and arranging in your mind. We love our buildings almost as much as our clients, and we work to make sure you know you’re in good hands with TransGlobe Property Management.

Not only do we take care of you at the very beginning, when you’re looking, we’re with you all the way through, answering maintenance calls promptly and efficiently. It’s important to us that you’re happy, and that you enjoy your new neighborhood. Neighborhoods are very important to us, too, you’ll soon see. Our fleet of fuel efficient vehicles can often be seen around town, attending public events, and charitable fundraisers. We at TransGlobe Property Management like to give back to the communities that have been our source of livelihood, as well as our homes, for all these years.

We recognize that good communities are created and not inherited. The generations that came before us worked so that we would have the right infrastructures in place to create the communities we want, but it’s up to us to continue the work with love, and with vision. Knowing our clients and knowing our neighbors is an important way to begin creating the kinds of communities our ancestors were working toward. We respect their efforts, and integrate them in to the way we work with each other, to continue to make Canada’s reputation as having one of the highest quality of life ratings on the planet.

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Japanese business culture affects how corporations train employees

Cindy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:05:45 +0000

Reading a book about Japanese etiquette will not suddenly provide you with the tools necessary for a successful business transaction with a Japanese cooperation. Even something so simple as a greeting can permanently mar a business relationship. Leadership skills development must not only include how to be a good leader in the business world of a hometown culture, but the host cultures you will soon be doing transactions and negotiations with.

For example, if you did not exchange a business card with a Japanese business person, it would be most offensive, and similar to not shaking hands in Western companies. It is best to make a hundred or so business cards with you on a trip to Japan to hand out during meetings. Incidentally, business cards in Japan are called “meishi.” No person in Japan will be very forgiving if you should accidentally run out of them either. It is a real stigma to not possess any business cards: it is a silent way of demonstrating in a culture that you might be unemployed.

Bragging knows no bounds in Japanese culture either. What might seem rude in a Western culture and tantamount to arrogance is actually a way of illustrating how great a company it is that you work for. Documentation such as press releases and news clippings will cement the achievements of your cooperation while also showing its influence.

Additionally, as in Western companies, it is very rude to be late, if not more so in Japan. You can presuppose that the Japanese associate you will be working with will have done much research on your company. While this is a given in any company culture, it must be followed even more strictly in not only the Japanese culture but other cultures as well. It makes you appear weak if you are not prepared in every manner possible. There will be no point to organizational development or any other kind of development if you cannot abide by such simple ways of life.

Further, the way people are seated at meetings is a very complicated affair based upon the relationship to your client, who has seniority, how and when people will be arriving, and even the most seemingly insignificant things such as where the door is in the room where you will be meeting. It is vital people learn such customs. The people get their drinks refilled also have rules and regulations. Things the business world in the West might take for granted gets turned on its head in other places. The unspoken rules of a culture can make or break a relationship. No where is this most important than in the business relationship.

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The Suspicious Activity Report and Keeping an Eye on Money Laundering

Cindy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:32:13 +0000

Bank employees are required to fill out an SAR, or Suspicious Activity Report, when something about a transaction seems amiss. Which situations should an employee find suspicious? There are many indications that illegal activities may be occurring. If a young teenager comes into a bank with a paper bag full of money, this is suspicious activity requiring a report. If a teller notices many withdrawals, deposits or transfers occurring within a short amount of time, this is suspicious. Any large cash transaction must reported, whether it seems out of the ordinary or not.

This is not only a weapon that is useful for banks to discover crimes involving the financial world, but crimes on the international level such as terrorism or extortion and political corruption. Once a report is filled out, the proper governmental agencies will begin an investigation. No report goes unnoticed. Money laundering is just the by product of a previously committed act of crime, and therefore, these stiffer regulations have served to bring to an end many cases of drug dealing and trafficking, tax evasion, and any individual involved in smuggling or terrorism rings.

Any individual that cannot provide valid documentation that they are conducting legitimate business will be under suspicion. Money laundering is a world wide problem, and officials in the law enforcement agencies estimate that close to two trillion dollars a year is laundered in the international financial institutions. Another institution that must remain watchful, is any business that sells and redeems money orders or travellers checks, as well as institutions such as Western Union, who provide money transfers and wires daily. Money launderers have in the past been known to target such institutions. However know they too are required by the Bank Secrecy Act, to fill out reports on such transactions. Check cashing locations are still not required by law to fill out the SAR, but many are opting to do so anyway, as a measure of protecting themselves.

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Thinking about Delegation

Cindy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:05:50 +0000

Winding down another week and so much to do before it is over. Well that is normal, always in a rush and hurried. Between family, work and my investment properties. From one to the other I go and without a lot of time for anything else. So heading into another weekend with a lot left on the to do list and family plans filling the entire weekend, work will be carried over to another week once again! Fortunately, no one will die, it is not that critical, however it does have a level of importance for those affected. I keep thinking I need to get some of this work off my plate. Doing some thinking of what is appropriate to delegate out and what I need to keep close. Obviously family can not be delegated, well and that is where I will be spending any of the time I free up anyway.

What stood out first and fore most are the tenant calls, property and maintenance questions following up on delinquent renters and so much more that pops up all the time while managing investment properties. Someone else could do this. Hiring someone to do this didn’t make sense to me, I mean another body on the payroll is not a solution. So I began to look into management companies. Where else do I turn these days, of course the Internet. Search results came back with what appeared to be an interesting prospect to me a company named Transglobe property management. Needing professionalism and availability to to meet they seemed a good prospect. I was happy I was able to contact Transglobe property management via Twitter and got responses very quickly. It was impressive beginning to my research into their company.

Looking like I may be getting out from under the property management I can focus on the SEO for my online business and get that built up to the point where pieces of it can be handed off. Moving myself closer to the goal of having time for creativity and expansion.

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