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e_Marketing Blog 3 Reasons To Like Google Docs We've just started using Google Docs for collaborating on the writing of articles, blog posts, audio and video scripts, reports, etc. - anything that requires team work. After about a week with the system I am very impressed. I suspect there will be many more reasons to like Docs, but here are the first three... 1. Sharing documents is very easy. Just add someone else's Google login email address and it is done. You can optionally send an email to your collaborators telling them the file is shared. 2. Folder organization works nicely. You can save your text documents in your own folders, then share them with others who can then organize them as they see fit. This accommodates people who have a difficult time with file and folder organization. Believe it or not, everybody does not like the abstract file and folder model used and taken for granted by computer geeks everywhere. With Google Docs you share the specific document, not the document-in-a-particular-location, so Collaborator B does not have to buy into Collaborator A's folder structure. 3. The default formatting used in the basic text "documents" translates nicely into most article submission and blog entry forms. MS Word notoriously adds characters that article and blog entry forms do not like. Google Docs Could Be Useful We do a lot of collaborative writing and publishing at Linknet - where two or three people get in on writing articles and posts, creating videos, etc., and the people involved are often not on the same internal network. So managing the writing, editing, publishing, reporting and archiving can be a challenge. A shared online repository for content seems like the answer, so over the last few days I've been looking at Google Docs to see if it fits the bill. So far so good. One person creates a document and then shares it with others. The originator of the doc can work on it and then have a collaborator make additional edits to exactly the same document. Take a video script for example. The script writer can write a script and store it in a Google Docs folder. Then give access to that script to the person doing the voice track and the other person doing the actual video production. If changes are made further up the production chain - say by the voice track person - these changes can be made right to the master version stored in Google Docs. So everybody is working from the same script. One potential problem I've seen so far is that you cannot share folders - only individual docs. That means Person A may want to organize the same files in completely different folders from Person B. That sounds like it could be a good thing in some cases, but in others not so good. I can also see this system being good for client communication and reporting. You create a report, say by using the online Spreadsheet utility, then share it with the client so he/she can see what is going on. Other users could even make notations and add stuff like you can with a wiki. I must admit though, that I haven't quite figured out the Google "account" thing yet. If you've got accounts for adwords, adsense, docs, video, analytics, etc. and you signed up for them at different times, there's no telling whether or not they are synchronized. I'm sure there's a way, but I haven't figured it out yet. New AV Electronics Blog We just created a new blog called Audio Video Electronics featuring videos and articles about audio video equipment. |
Review-of-the-week.com features Product Feature Pages — pages dedicated to descriptions or reviews of products or websites. Product Feature pages can include photos and graphics (as long as these are readily available), and can have links pointing back to your (single) site. Product Feature Pages are linked from at least 5 blogs, a number of high traffic article and announcement sites. Self Employed Loans : Carve a Niche for YourselfMar 30, 2006 - Linknet Finance News Self Employed Loans : Carve a Niche for Yourself Mar 30, 2006 - Linknet Finance News - by Christian PhelpsMany people are attracted to the benefits of self-employment, from setting your own hours and being your own boss to having control over the development of your business and career. The control over your lifestyle and work is a good reward for the risks involved in setting out on your own. But there are definite challenges involved also. One of the most daunting aspects of self-employment is finding credit. Lenders are often wary of lending to someone who is self employed, particularly if they are new to it and cannot provide proof of steady income. However, as the character of the economy continues to change,banks and other lenders are becoming increasingly willing to lend to the self-employed. == Loan Officer Training - Mortgage broker training services and products tested by real mortgage brokers. Free mortgage marketing tips and stragegies. == Self employed loans used to be difficult to find and expensive. However, with more people working for themselves, self employed loans are more widely available and more affordable.Self employed loans are not confined to one or two group of people , it aims to meet the cash needs of all those who wish to start a business of their own or need funds to enforce the development and expansion of their existing business.Another factor is whether you go for a secured or unsecured self-employed loan. Secured loans generally offer better rates and are secured over your home or automobile usually. Now that unsecured loans are becoming easier to obtain, particularly if the loan is being used for business purposes as it means you home or car will be less at risk from repossession. Self employed loans are designed to meet the cash needs of self employed people who do not have a fixed income. Flexible repayment option is the key feature of self employed loans that suits best to self employed people’s financial circumstances. A borrower can make underpayment, overpayment and can also enjoy payment holiday with a self employed loan.Overpayment imply that a borrower pay more money for a month than the amount due. While underpayment is just the opposite of overpayment, it gives the borrower the freedom to pay a lesser amount in a month then the amount due. Payment holiday is completely different from the two mentioned above. It allows a borrower to skip a limited number of monthly payments after an initial period of regular payments.Self employed people with bad credit history or who have faced defaults or bankruptcy too can apply for self employed loans. Self employed loans do not function in the manner in which regular loans do. One of the reasons behind this is the distinct nature of self employed people. An attempt has been made to accommodate these distinct features in the self employed loans to make them more user friendly.Self employed people comprise a very large category. The category has swollen tremendously over the years.With self employed loans, financial market hope to cater to this group in the best possible manner. Christian Phelps is a Masters in Accounting and Financial Management from Lancaster University Management School . He has been working with loan for self employed since his academics got over. To find Self employed secured loan,unsecured self employed loan visit http://www.loanforselfemployed.co.uk / Republished from Free Articles at Click-Partners.com == Commercial Mortgage Strategies ==
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