Authors: Lawrence Lessig.
Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 2006-12-04


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Authors: Shel Perkins.
Paperback, 392 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Publication Date: 2006-03-25


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    &> —Frank Maddocks, President, Maddocks & Company

This comprehensive guide includes everything designers need—besides talent—to turn their artistic success into business success. You’ll find information on key issues facing designers from freelancing to the management of established design firms. A strong visual focus and to-the-point text take the fear factor out of learning about thorny business realities like staffing, marketing, bookkeeping, intellectual property, and more. These smart business practices are essential to success in graphic, Web, and industrial design. Here are just a few of the things you’ll learn:
• How to get on the right career path
• How to market your services successfully
• The best way to determine pricing for your services
• How to avoid common legal pitfalls
• How to structure projects for success
• The secrets of successful teams
• How to sustain your business long-term

Talent Is Not Enough provides a big-picture context for these and other challenges and shares practical, real-world advice. The book is destined to become an essential resource for both students and working professionals in these areas and more:
• Design planning and strategy
• Corporate identity development
• Marketing communications
• Publication and editorial design
• Brand identity and packaging design
• Advertising and promotion design
• Motion graphics
• Environmental design
• Industrial design
• Interaction design

Talent Is Not Enough is an AIGA Design Press book published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA.

BONUS
Watch for free chapters online!
www.talentisnotenough.com

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Authors: Joseph Phillips.
Paperback, 591 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date: 2006-03-08
Edition: 2

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    A unique classroom-based approach for PMP exam preparation

This proven system for candidates wishing to certify their skills as Project Management Professionals delivers complete coverage of the PMP exam, hundreds of practice questions, and a CD-ROM that includes two electronic practice exams and an electronic copy of the book.

• Reflects the 2005 revision of the exam
• The only study guide to offer a classroom-based approach to exam preparation
• Updated to reflect the new PMBK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) and references all answer explanations directly to the PMBK

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Paperback, 380 pages
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Publication Date: 2007-02-26
Edition: 1

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    "For those who think online learning can't be truly interactive, Patti Shank and her colleagues clearly demonstrate--in hundreds of examples--that it can. The real lesson in The Online Learning Idea Book is that technology doesn't build interactive learning; creative thinking and good, solid instructional design does. Using even a smidgen of the great ideas in this book will increase the learning effectiveness of any online program." --Marc J. Rosenberg, consultant, and author of Beyond E-Learning

"Patti Shank has collected great ideas about online learning and teaching from all over the globe. If you are an online instructor or instructional designer looking for new ways to involve and engage your learners, you'll be inspired by this book!"--Terry Morris, associate professor, William Rainey Harper Colleges

Filled with techniques, tools, tips, examples, resources, and dozens of "great ideas, this invaluable resource helps people who are looking to build online instructional materials -- or improve existing materials -- discover and implement what the best and brightest in industry and education are doing to make online learning more engaging and compelling. Increase your know-how in the following areas:

• Look and Feel: how to increase ease-of-use
• Graphics and Multimedia: how to make instructional graphics engaging and compelling
• Activities: how to make instruction itself engaging and compelling
• Tools: how to use a variety of online tools
• Instructional Design: how to design better and faster.

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Authors: Patrick O'Keefe.
Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: AMACOM
Publication Date: 2008-04-10


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    Every day, millions of users log into their favorite online forums to keep up on the latest trends in music, politics, entertainment, and current events. Each of these communities is led by administrators who must make tough decisions, deal with difficult users and manage the staff. Legal constraints, trolls, and technical issues can all turn the excitement of running an online community into chaos. With the right guidance, however, running forums can be a pleasure, not a chore. Patrick O'Keefe has spent years developing and managing his own online communities. Now, he shows readers how they can make their lives easier by making the right decisions about every aspect of their forums. From developing their site to choosing the right employees, "Managing Online Forums" is the one book that shows site administrators how to create a safe, entertaining, and informative community that users will return to again and again....

Authors: Kimball Fisher. Mareen Fisher.
Hardcover, 252 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2000-09-22
Edition: 1

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    Global business demands and new technologies have created a virtual workplace for many companies, with employees and teams routinely collaborating from distant geographical locations on the road, from home, at client sites—even on the other side of the globe. The Distance Manager provides practical information and tools to help managers bridge the communication gaps created by geographical separation, and get peak performance from employees they rarely see. This handbook is perfect for sales managers, project team leaders, senior managers, and anyone who manages people at more than one location. Key topics include:
• Using e-mail, teleconferencing, and videoconferencing for maximum effectiveness
• Mastering the people skills required to manage from a distance
• Virtual team building, and strategies for managing multiple locations...

Authors: Brian Bagnall.
Hardcover, 548 pages
Publisher: Variant Press
Publication Date: 2005-09-14


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    Between 1976 and 1994, Commodore had astounding success in the nascent personal computer business. Amid the chaos and infighting, Commodore was able to achieve some remarkable industry firsts. They were the first major company to show a personal computer, even before Apple and Radio Shack. They sold a million computers before anyone else. No single computer has sold more than the Commodore 64. The first true multimedia computer, the Amiga, came from Commodore. Yet with all these milestones, Commodore receives almost no credit as a pioneer. Commodore was one of the only companies with the ability to make silicon, and the results were obvious. They had more creativity, more color, and more character than the competition. While Apple and IBM charged exorbitant prices, Commodore was able to reach the masses with affordable computers while remaining profitable. The Commodore 64 cut a path of destruction through the early industry, knocking Tandy, Texas Instruments, Sinclair, and Atari out of the computer business and badly hurting Apple and even IBM. While other companies received more press, Commodore sold more computers. Yet Commodore never reached a comfortable position. They were always on the verge of blinding success or abysmal failure. Commodore’s volatile founder, Jack Tramiel, lived on the edge, and he made sure his employees lived there too. On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore tells the story through over 44 hours of interviews with former engineers and managers: Chuck Peddle, the digital God who created a revolution with the 6502 chip and designed the PET computer. Al Charpentier, the chain smoking architect of Commodore’s revolutionary graphics chips. Bob Yannes, the frustrated musician and synthesizer aficionado who designed the Commodore 64 and the SID sound chip. Bil Herd, the unruly engineer who created the maligned Plus/4 and later sought redemption with the C128. The Amiga engineers, who created the first true multimedia system even before the word multimedia existed. Irving Gould, financier and majority shareholder who rescued Commodore in the sixties, then allowed it to wither....

Authors: Michael Foster.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2002-12-23
Edition: 1

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    Recruiting on the Web is the most comprehensive and advanced guide to Internet recruiting available anywhere.  It explains the best practices, creative ideas and recruiting tools used by the most forward-looking companies and professional recruiters to lower their recruiting costs, slash cycle time, and hire the very best candidates via the Web.

Recruiting on the Web will help recruiters and Human Resources professionals plan a Web-based recruiting campaign to quickly fill a position with the right candidate. It will also help managers, executives, and small-business owners save thousands of dollars in advertising costs by taking charge of their own hiring process, using the power of the Web.

Readers will learn to:

• Organize inexpensive but highly effective job posting campaigns
• Select, evaluate and post to the best niche job boards
• Work more successfully with Monster.com, HotJobs, CareerBuilder
• Find candidates hidden in companies, universities, and organizations
• Build a recruiting Web site
• Find great diversity candidates using the Web
• Build a Web-based employee referral system
• Build a Web-based college recruiting plan
• And much more

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Authors: Nick Barclay. Adrian Downes.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Rational Pr
Publication Date: 2007-11-28


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    Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS) is a complete performance management solution, allowing companies to monitor their progress toward goals, analyze information, plan, budget, and forecast using dynamic modeling tools. Using interactive dashboards, PPS enables the integration of refined data from one or more sources into a single point-of-contact for key performance indicators, which are directly aligned to corporate strategies and goals.

This book will bring you up to speed on the Monitoring and Analytics features of PPS 2007. Topics include performance management theory, PPS installation and configuration, the Dashboard Designer, and the six Monitoring elements. Advanced topics include deployment, security, and scoring.

This book is a companion volume of The Rational Guide to Planning with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.

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Authors:
Paperback, 231 pages
Publisher: Van Haren Publishing
Publication Date: 2005-09-15
Edition: 2nd

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    This introduction to IT Service Management, published by ITSMF-NL, is based on the latest edition of the ITIL books on Service Support and Service Delivery and is intended to serve as a thorough and convenient introduction to the field of IT Service Management and a selection of the books in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and a self-study guide that contains all the material needed to prepare for the Foundation Certificate examination in IT Service Management....