Authors: Meredith G. Farkas.
Paperback, 344 pages
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Publication Date: 2007-03-20


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    Here is the first book to explore the growing phenomenon of social software and how these technologies can be applied in libraries. Social software lets libraries show a human face online, helping them communicate, educate, and interact with their communities. This nuts-and-bolts guide provides librarians with the information and skills necessary to implement the most popular and effective social software technologies: blogs, RSS, wikis, social networking software, screencasting, photo-sharing, podcasting, instant messaging, gaming, and more. Success stories and interviews highlight these tools ease-of-use and tremendous impact. Novice readers will find ample descriptions and advice on using each technology, while veteran users of social software will discover new applications and approaches. Supported by the author s Web page....

Authors: Suzanne Sabroski.
Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Publication Date: 2002-06-01


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    Offering the advice, insights, experiences, and encouragement would-be Internet entrepreneurs need to establish a successful independent research business, this book provides an insider's view of Internet businesses and their unique services. Eleven entrepreneurial super searchers representing a broad range of topic specialities and business focuses are interviewed. Also discussed are the details for getting started, developing a niche, finding clients, doing the research, networking with peers, and staying well informed about Web resources and technologies....

Authors: Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman.
Paperback, 408 pages
Publisher: Apress
Publication Date: 2006-09-28
Edition: 2

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In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters, Second Edition is National Lampoon meets Peter Drucker. It's a funny and well-written business book that takes a look at some of the most influential marketing and business philosophies of the last twenty years. Through the dark glass of hindsight, it provides an educational and entertaining look at why these philosophies didn't work for many of the country's largest and best-known high-tech companies.

Marketing wizard Richard Chapman takes you on a hilarious ride in this book, which is richly illustrated with cartoons and reproductions of many of the actual campaigns used at the time. Filled with personal anecdotes spanning Chapman's remarkable career (he was present at many now-famous meetings and events), In Search of Stupidity, Second Edition examines the best of the worst marketing ideas and business decisions in the last twenty years of the technology industry.

The second edition includes new chapters on Google and on how to avoid stupidity, plus the extensive analyses of all chapters from the first edition. Youll want to get a copy because it

• Features an interesting preface and interview with Joel Spolsky of "Joel on Software"
• Offers practical advice on avoiding PR disaster
• Features actual pictures of some of the worst PR and marketing material ever created
• Is highly readable and funny
• Includes theme-based cartoons for every chapter

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Authors: Michael L. Sankey.
Paperback, 600 pages
Publisher: Facts on Demand Press
Publication Date: 2006-07-25
Edition: 6

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    The only Master Guide to online public record searching, The sixth edition details nearly 10.000 sites, both government agencies and private sources. This new edition is completely revised and updated....

Authors: Jack Fox.
Paperback, 350 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2001-01-19
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    The first complete guide to taking advantage of the huge and growing market for Internet accounting services for small businesses
The Internet provides accountants with exciting new opportunities for expanding their practices by affording them unprecedented access to the huge small business market. The first comprehensive book on the subject, this book describes proven strategies for creating a thriving virtual accounting practice. Expert Jack Fox presents in-depth coverage of the various accounting and consulting services that accountants can offer to small business owners via the Internet. He describes successful techniques for identifying potential clients and packaging and marketing services, and arms readers with a complement of valuable tools for helping them get started in virtual accounting, including detailed business plans, numerous tables, forms, checklists, and connections with leading virtual accounting service providers....

Authors: Diana Hacker.
Spiral-bound, 304 pages
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication Date: 2005-12-28
Edition: 4th

Authors: Sharon Elaine.
Paperback, 108 pages
Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc.
Publication Date: 2007-10-18


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Ready, Click, Win shows you:

How to find and enter legitimate online sweepstakes
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Entering sweepstakes is NOT gambling! You will NEVER give any money or have to pay for anything! With the use of your computer, the internet, and this valuable book, you'll have all you need to begin to enter and win legitimate sweepstakes prizes.

This fun, exciting and rewarding hobby is for ALL ages from 18-99. The sooner you get started, the quicker you'll begin to win money and prizes....

Authors: JoAnn T., PhD Hackos. Dawn M. Stevens.
Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 1997-02-07


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    Experience firsthand what makes online information work and why

Standards for Online Communication gives you guidelines for how to place information online within your company. It provides both a design and development process and a set of guidelines for the Internet, intranets, and help systems for designers and authors who need to create effective electronic information.

Drawing on their design and consulting experience, authors JoAnn Hackos and Dawn Stevens demonstrate how to judge what will work for your users, how to translate users' needs into a set of clear specifications, and how to implement these specifications. Using examples of good design, they provide expert advice and guidance on:
* Giving customers and employees the online information they need to do their jobs
* How to organize online information so your users can easily navigate through it
* Dealing with the special design requirements of the Web, intranets, and online help systems
* What graphics users really need and where sound and video fit in
* The issues involved with accessibility and navigation-multimedia, maps, indexes, hypertext, and more

On the accompanying CD, you'll find a winhelp file of the book designed according to the principles taught in the book. Whether you are a webmaster, user-interface designer, content creator, or technical writer, with Standards for Online Communication you'll experience firsthand what makes online information work and why.

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Authors: Michael W. Berry and Murray Browne.
Paperback, 117 pages
Publisher: SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Publication Date: 2005-04-28
Edition: 2

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    “There is no other information retrieval/search book where the heart is the mathematical foundations. This book is greatly needed to further establish information retrieval as a serious academic, as well as practical and industrial, area." ---Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University. “Berry and Browne describe most of what you need to know to design your own search engine. Their strength is the description of the solid mathematical underpinnings at a level that is understandable to competent engineering undergraduates, perhaps with a bit of instructor guidance. They discuss the algorithms used by most commercial search engines, so you may find your use of Google and its kind becomes more effective, too.” --George Corliss, Marquette University. “This book gives a valuable, generally non-technical, insight into how search engines work, how to improve the users' success in Information Retrieval (IR), and an in-depth analysis of a mathematical algorithm for improving a search engine's performance. …Written in an informal style, the book is easy to read and is a good introduction on how search engines operate…” —Christopher Dean, Mathematics Today, October 1999. The second edition of Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval follows the basic premise of the first edition by discussing many of the key design issues for building search engines and emphasizing the important role that applied mathematics can play in improving information retrieval. The authors discuss important data structures, algorithms, and software as well as user-centered issues such as interfaces, manual indexing, and document preparation. Readers will find that the second edition includes significant changes that bring the text up to date on current information retrieval methods. For example, the authors have added a completely new chapter on link-structure algorithms used in search engines such as Google, and the chapter on user interface has been rewritten to specifically focus on search engine usability. To reflect updates in the literature on information retrieval, the authors have added new recommendations for further reading and expanded the bibliography. In addition, the index has been updated and streamlined to make it more reader friendly. Instructors will find that the book serves as an excellent companion text for courses in information retrieval, applied linear algebra, and scientific computing. Because of the authors’ informal, conversational tone, readers with nonmathematical backgrounds also will appreciate the less technical chapters of the text....

Authors: Jerri L. Ledford.
Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2007-01-23


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    Everything you need to know to get started using Google’s free productivity tools is right in these pages. With a section devoted to each application, finding and using the information is easy. You’ll learn to create documents, crunch numbers, e-mail with Gmail, build Web sites, share photos, track calendars, and more. Harness the power of Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Page Creator, Google Calendar, Google Notebook, Google Talk, Gmail, and Picasa and get your life powered!...