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Robin Henry - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Robin is a human resources specialist with a background in the military (Air Force), policing, vocational education and training, training management, consulting, and public administration.
He has over 25 years experience as an HR specialist and a life-long interest in organisation and methods and communication. He sells a range of products from several Internet sites and does some selective consulting.
He has a Master's degree in education technology, Bachelor's degrees in HR and business communication and ... [More]
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- Ebook Publishing - It's Easy to Become a Published Writer
[Writing-and-Speaking:Publishing] Many people are establishing successful online businesses selling information and it's much easier to do it than what it seems. This article provides a summary of what you need to do to become a home-based, online ebook publisher earning a handsome income.
- Preparing to Return to the Maker
[Home-and-Family:Death-Dying] When the grim reaper calls, will you have prepared your personal and business affairs to make it easier on your loved ones, or will they have to unravel your digital and other existence? This article discusses the need for an exit strategy and suggests a few ways to do it.
- Doing it Wrong the First Time - Information Technology at Its Worst
[Computers-and-Technology:Software] There are many small, but immensely annoying things about using information technology. This item discusses several common problems and asks why programmers and other IT specialists don't aim to Do It Right First Time.
- Living and Working in the United Arab Emirates
[Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] Getting towards the end of my career, I'd been waiting for some excitement in my life for years. My job with the Australian Government had changed after successive restructures to a job in which I wasn't interested, not trained, educated or experienced. Sure, I coped with the work, but I felt like a fish out of water.
- The Importance of Tire Choice and Maintenance in Road Safety
[Automotive] While there are many aspects of road safety that are important, one area often overlooked is tyre selection and maintenance. This article discusses road safety in the United Arab Emirates and how choosing the right tire for the job is critical.
- When You Visit Central Australia Don't Just Look for the Big Rock!
[Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] When you visit Central Australia, don't just head straight for Ayres Rock. There is much to see and do at nearby Alice Springs. This article explains some of the sights.
- What's Wrong With The United Arab Emirates?
[News-and-Society:International] Despite a lovely, mostly tax-free lifestyle for those of us benefiting from the insatiable need that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has for expatriate expertise and labour, I cannot help but feel that this country is in trouble. This article describes how wealth, while solving many problems for Emiratis, has also created challenges that will be difficult to meet.
- Another Way to Handle Spam Coming Through Your Domain
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Spam-Blocker] Dealing with spam is a nightmare we all face and there seems to be no final solution. This article discusses an intermediate solution that helps reduce the spam effect considerably.
- How Prescribed and Off The Shelf Drugs Can Land You in Trouble When You Travel
[Travel-and-Leisure:Airline-Travel] Travelling to other countries carries risks for people carrying drugs whether prescribed or not. This article explains the necessity to make sure you do some research about the country you are visiting before you leave the comfort of your home. Otherwise you may not see it again for a very long time.
- When You Travel to the Middle East the Least of Your Worries Should Be About Terrorism
[Travel-and-Leisure] Many people avoid travelling to the Middle East because they fear they'll be caught up in terrorist activities. Fortunately, the Middle East, especially in the Gulf, is a peaceful, beautiful area and the greatest danger is to be found elsewhere than from terrorism. This article explains what is more prevalent and dangerous than terrorism to visitors of the Gulf.
- Six Ways to Improve Your Job Application Cover Letter
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Many cover letters I have seen have done more harm than good for prospective candidates. This item suggests ways in which cover letters might be improved or, if the circumstances require it, not sent.
- Check Conditions of Service Before Commencing a New Job
[Business:Careers-Employment] Many people begin new jobs without any real idea what conditions of service apply to them. This article discusses the issue and suggests how you can avoid disappointment.
- Pay Per Click is Dying - Pay Per Visitor is Tomorrow's Choice
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] To make money online, the astute Internet marketer has to keep ahead of technology advances and trends. Are you up to date with the emerging approach called Pay Per Page? This short article explains what it is and how it works.
- Who is More Stupid, Internet Scammers Or Those Responding?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] I read with astonishment recently that despite people being advised by Australian police that an email doing the rounds was a scam, many recipients continued sending money to scammers in far away places. This article discusses several common scams and how to recognise them.
- Using Signature Blocks to Market Your Products or Services
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] When you send an email message or letter, do you include a sales offer? If not, this article suggests ways in which you can promote your business using letters and email.
- Why You Need to, and How to Shorten Your Web Links
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] There are good reasons why you need to shorten and often modify the appearance of your web URLs, especially if you are an Internet marketer. Several of these reasons are explained in this short article.
- How to Download an Audio Book From Your Hard Disk to Your Non-iPod Media Player
[Home-Improvement:Audio-Video] This article describes how to download an audio book file to most common brands of portable media player eg, Digital River, Creative, Sandisk etc. It is not applicable to Apple's iPod or some other digital players that require proprietary download software provided with the devices.
- Ten Ways to Use Your Personal Domain Name - Part 2
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] A domain name is also called a Universal Resources Locator (URL) and, like a street address, is used to find specific sites on the web. Having your own personalised URL is now a very popular fad. This article continues Part 1 of the same name and gives additional ways in which you can use your domain name.
- Ten Ways to Use Your Personal Domain Name - Part 1
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] A domain name is also called a Universal Resources Locator (URL) and, like a street address, is used to find specific sites on the web. Having your own personalised URL is now a very popular fad. This article and Part 2 suggest some ways in which you can use a domain name.
- A Baby Boomer's Thoughts on Turning 60
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] While many are concerned at aging, it has many advantages. Instead of focusing on what we perceive of as being the negatives of aging, we need to be thankful for much we have that is not, and may never be, available to the younger person.
- I've Heard Of Dubai, But Where In Hell Is Al Ain?
[Travel-and-Leisure] The author is living temporarily at Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. Before he accepted a short term contract there, he had never heard of Al Ain. He's beginning to think it is the world's best kept secret. This article discusses Al Ain and it's tourist attractions. When you visit the United Arab Emirates ... don't forget Al Ain.
- Why Blogs are Better Than Newsletters for Marketing and Promotion
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] The days of the ezine are almost finished. A few hardy souls hang-in-there and continue to publish their newsletters in email, PDF or HTML format, but it's only a matter of time before they become aware of the superiority of the common blog over the crisp, smart-looking and colourful PDF file. This article explains why blogging is the way to go.
- How to Download an Audio Book From Your Hard Disk to Your iPod
[Computers-and-Technology:Personal-Tech] Although it's relatively simple to download an audio file to an iPod, there are several tricks one needs to be aware of to do it successfully from one's hard disk drive. This short article is intended to simplify the task.
- Why Would 8,000 People Read an Article about Letter Formatting?
[Business:Workplace-Communication] When the author wrote an item about letter formatting, he was surprised that over 8,000 people viewed the article given that letter writing and formatting is such a common business activity. This article discusses some of the reasons the author believes contributed to such a great interest in the article.
- The Joys of "Listening" to Books
[Book-Reviews] The author has recently experienced the joys of reading audio books after years of prolific reading of text books, magazines and other written word media. He discusses his experience here while briefly commenting on two titles, one of which is "Belle De Jour: The Intimate Confessions of a London Call Girl."
- How to Submit Your Resume Online
[Business:Careers-Employment] Increasing numbers of firms and recruitment agencies require resumes to be submitted online. One or two advise you how to do it, but many don't. This article is intended to help you submit a resume that will be found and not buried among the millions of other resumes.
- Is Planned Imperfection the Reason Why Things Go Wrong
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Philosophy] While the idea that God created the world and everything in it is popular today, there has been no real explanation why he or she couldn't have got it right 100% of the time. We are still surrounded by things that don't work as well as they should.
This article considers whether there is a reason why our world isn't an example of perfection and raises the possibility that imperfection is planned and not accidental.
- How to Feel Confident at Job Interviews
[Business:Careers-Employment] Being confident at a job interview is all about being prepared. This short article provides some sound advice on how you can prepare for an interview and boost your confidence.
- Can We Overcome the Power of Limerence?
[Relationships] Limerence is an involuntary cognitive and emotional state characterized foremost by intrusive thinking, longing for reciprocation and sensitivity to external events signifying uncertainty or hope in relation to a person of our desires. It can be destructive and tiring for an individual. This article briefly provides a case study and asks about a possible solution for escaping the clutches of limerence.
- Make Your Office a Paper Free Zone
[Business:Management] With the advent of computers we all believed that paper would dissapear and we'd do everything online. That's true in some cases, but we still have a long way to go as a society. Despite our lack of progress, there are some strategies you can put in place to make your office as paper free as possible. This article discusses several.
- A New Religion for a New Age
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] New religions and philosophies come and go and have done so for millenia. What will the new religions of the future bring us? This article discusses a new evolving philosophy that could become one of the new religions in our time as the existing religions fade.
- Squash and The Unique Selling Proposition of Older Men
[Relationships] Having a game of squash can be an excellent way to convince your partner that you not only play squash well, but may have attributes suited for other "indoor games". This is a bit of fun with an analogy between squash and getting a younger woman to make love.
- Digital Photographic Images - Part 3: Resizing and Optimizing Images
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] If you've ever received an email that has a huge image attached and takes forever to download, you'll appreciate why you shouldn't do it to anyone else. This article discusses resizing and cropping images for email and Internet use.
- Digital Photographic Images - Part 2: How to Store Them
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] This second article in a series discusses how to store your digital photographs and recommends Google Picasa as a useful complement to your digital media.
- Digital Photographic Images - Part 1: How to Download Them
[Computers-and-Technology:Personal-Tech] With the proliferation of digital image capturing devices about these days, many amateur photographers need to know how to download, manipulate and edit their images for different uses. This first article of a series discusses two options to download from camera to computer.
- Using Google Alert to Carry Out Research
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Google Alert is an excellent tool for getting information from the web, discussion groups or from the news media and having it delivered to your desktop. This short item explains how.
- Simply Planning or Planning Simply: How to Plan Without Fuss
[Business:Strategic-Planning] Over the years I've seen many different approaches to strategic and operational planning, almost all of which resulted in a huge pile of paperwork, numerous meetings to thrash out such things as the organisation's vision, and no real outcomes. What I've learnt through all this is that simple plans work ... complex plans don't. This article suggests some ways in which you can plan simply and produce plans that are useful and effective.
- Ebook Review: "Rat Race Blues for Women"
[Book-Reviews:Internet-Marketing] If you are one of those people who can't budget for nuts, are always in debt and need to know how to change your life for the better, this title is for you. No matter whether you are male or female, this ebook will help you get out of debt.
- The Power of Love and SMS Messages
[Relationships:Love] If you love someone and have a mobile phone with SMS capacity, you can change their morale and improve their world. This short article tells you how it works.
- How To Choose Your Career - A Little Like Choosing Your Life's Partner
[Business:Careers-Employment] Deciding our career is one of the most important decisions we make, usually while still young and inexperienced. After we choose, we usually invest considerable sums of money and personal effort learning and preparing to be excellent at whatever career we have chosen. Because it's so important for our future success and happiness, we need to be well informed about our options. This article discusses a range of inexpensive ebooks that are excellent in helping us inform ourselves about careers and much more and with a touch of humour, relates our efforts to choosing our life's partner.
- Writing and Using Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs)
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] When we agree with others to do certain things we don't always need a legally prepared contract, but we might decide to document our agreement in a way that reminds both parties to what they agreed. This document is often called a Memorandum of Understanding. This short article discusses Memoranda of Understanding and how they can benefit parties to an agreement.
- Making a Buck From Presenting - You Can Do It!
[Business:Presentation] If you know something about training and can present fairly well, you'll never be short of a dollar. If you happen to be famous - or even infamous - you can do very well. People are hungry for information. You have information. You can sell it to crowds who will happily pay to hear what you have to say.
- How to Plan Your Conference With Less Pain and More Gain
[Business:PR] Conference planning seems simple at the outset, but it is full of potential traps for the unwary. This article attempts to provide sufficient information for you to organise a conference without the pain of dysfunction.
- Ebook Review: "AdSense Confessions", How to Earn Google AdSense Income
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Publishing] Have you joined the herds of people earning a passive income from Pay Per Click using Google AdSense? If not, you're missing a golden opportunity. This ebook review is about "AdSense Confessions" written by Codrut Turcanu who reveals how nine people make varying levels of income for very little work.
- Save Valuable Time: Manage Your Email
[Business:Workplace-Communication] Email can take over your life if you let it. But, if you stay in control and introduce several strategies with which to manage it, it can continue to be the useful tool it was meant to be and not a time-wasting gremlin.
This short article summarises several ways in which you can Save Valuable Time by Managing Your Email.
- The Verdict's Out: Publishing Articles Helps Determine Product Demand
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] A short experiment confirmed what this writer had already expected; article popularity can help determine product or service demand. However, the writer cautions agains using article popularity as a sole indicator.
- If You Don't Produce Your Forms on Demand, You're Wasting Money
[Business:Management] Rather than use hardcopy forms in your business, there are considerable benefits in printing on demand. These can save you money and increase business efficiency. This short article suggests why and how you could prevent waste and improve your performance by printing on demand.
- Nine Ways to Make Your Work Plans Work!
[Business:Strategic-Planning] Although we all know deep down that prior planning prevents poor performance, few of us do it well. This item suggests ways in which we can get better outcomes from our work plans.
- Writing Business Letters - Tutorial 5: Writing "Letters" by Email
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Although email has almost taken the place of letters in many quarters, there is still a long way to go. This article suggests that using email as a substitute for writing letters is okay provided the standards of communication don't suffer.
- Are Long-winded Sales Letters Still Effective?
[Business:Sales] I've read often that long sales letters on the Internet or in email sales media get better results than short sales letters. My use of the Internet and that of my colleagues indicates this might not be correct. This article considers whether long sales letters are still as effective and in fact whether they ever were effective.
- Writing Business Letters - Tutorial 4: "No" Letters
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Perhaps the most difficult letter to write, a well written "No" letter can reduce the negative impact on the recipient and leave a good impression of the writer as a thoughtful, caring person.
This tutorial suggests ways in which a "No" can be made less hurtful and disheartening for its recipient.
- Give Yourself a Break - Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] When we remain in our comfort zone too long we start to become moribund. This article briefly discusses how getting out of your comfort zone can be stimulating.
- Encourage Curiosity and Generate Creative Employees
[Business:Management] Curiosity, as the saying goes, may have killed the cat, but it's a great benefit in motivating employees to find novel solutions to corporate challenges. This article discusses curiosity and how leveraging it can generate creative solutions at work ... or at home.
- Learning Guides a Great Addition to Procedures Manuals
[Business] When you need training to increase the uptake of procedures manuals, one suitable way is to use a learning guide in conjunction with the manuals. This article discusses how a learning guide is used and can benefit learners. It gives a case study and two references for further reading.
- Ebook Review: Selfscape - Success Through Balance by Sheryle Moon
[Self-Improvement:Success] When a Telstra Woman of the Year award winner and managing director of a large private sector organisation tells you how you can improve your life by achieving balance, you have to sit up and listen.
Sheryl's ebook is short, but concise and informative. If you think your life is out of whack, you could do no better than to read what Sheryle has to say because it will change your life ... forever!
- Determining Product Demand - Can Articles Help?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] There are various ways to determine product/service demand and the wise do their due diligence before investing; "find a demand and satisfy it" is the mantra, not create a supply and try to convince people they need it. This short article considers the benefits of producing articles to determine product demand and ultimately, viability.
- Product Review: EzWebBusinessBuilder Instructional CD-ROM
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] While there are thousands of ebooks, audio streams, reports etc on the web that purport to tell you how to emulate their authors and become wealthy, none is as innovative as this.
ezWebBusinessBuilder takes you by the hand and guides you through the whole online marketing adventure from finding a product to establishing an affiliate program. It uses a popular educational instructional methodology to get you to "View it and Do it!" as you build your real life Internet business.
It's truly a remarkable program.
- Don't Forget - Leave Loved Ones Details of Your Digital Existence
[Legal] Most of us protect our next of kin by preparing our Last Will and Testament, but forget to do anything about our digital existences. In this day of digital assets, how will you ensure your loved ones can effectively wind up your digital presence? This article addresses some of the issues.
- Important Message for Baby Boomers, "Don't Retire Yet ... Refocus"
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] With an aging population, members of which are now retiring earlier and living longer, there is a need for people to find interesting things to occupy their time. The writer believes that it's better to do several things that help you balance your life with a little work and a little play and if possible, a little income. This article discusses several ways to refocus instead of retire.
- Writing Business Letters - Tutorial 3: Writing a Quality Letter
[Business] This is the third of three tutorials about letter writing. Not intended to be a complete work, it's a quick treatment that will have you writing good quality, well formatted letters pretty swiftly if you follow the principles.
Here's where we put the three tutorials together and discuss the opening sentence, body and action endings that make letters effective and efficient.
- Writing Business Letters - Tutorial 2: Parts of a Business Letter
[Business] The second in a short tutorial series, this article explains the parts of a business letter and for what they are used.
- Writing Business Letters - Tutorial 1: Letter Format
[Writing-and-Speaking:Copywriting] Many people seem to have difficulty writing business letters and it's mainly because they haven't been shown how. This first article, in a series of articles, describes a common layout format for business letters for any business.
- The End of Work and a New Age: Building a Vision for Happiness
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] For those of us who are lucky, one day we finish paid work and have the luxury of doing our own thing. The vision we hold for our senior years is powerful in helping us live a healthy, happy, productive life until we die. This is my vision. What is yours?
- Why Well Produced Career Portfolios Are Replacing CVs
[Business:Careers-Employment] Once the domain of artists, photographers, fashion designers and other creative types, the Career Portfolio is now winning jobs for a range of other job hunters. If you're after a job and go the extra mile of creating and maintaining a career portfolio, you may just leave some of the competition behind. This article discusses what career portfolios are and why they are now in vogue for non-artistic types.
- Has the "Free Report" Had Its Day?
[Business:Marketing] Everywhere one looks there are offers of Free Reports. The free report is now overused if not dead, but finding something to take its place is a challenge. This item considers several options and challenges you to come up with some innovative replacements.
- Master Responding to Selection Criteria and Win Your Next Job!
[Business:Careers-Employment] Every day numerous job applications are scrapped because applicants have either inadequately or not addressed selection criteria. Some simply send a resume. Others write a few sentences that are really meaningless in terms of the selection criteria. This article describes the main challenges job applicants face when addressing selection criteria and how to overcome them.
- From Boring to Interesting - Making Training Effective
[Business:Management] This article suggests a few ways in which to change your training delivery from boring to interesting and at the same time making it more effective.
- Is Information Delivery Instruction?
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] If you think information dissemination is instruction, think again. This article discusses the difference and gives some advice on how you can get the most out of your information sessions.
- Working with Hearing Impaired Employees - Giving Them a Fair Go
[Business:Management] People who are hearing impaired do not appear to have a disability. We may see their hearing aids, but there is a common perception that because they wear aids there hearing problem has disappeared. That is not always so. With a bit of common sense and courtesy, we can help hearing impaired people function better in the workplace and receive a fair go.
This item presents a case study about a profoundly deaf individual working in a hospital.
- Why Not Use the Humble Fax in Your Advertising Strategy?
[Communications:Fax] Advertising is one of the major expenses in any small business, but without it, it's difficult to generate sales. This article discusses why you should include fax messaging as a cost-effective part of any marketing strategy.
- Stuffing the Spammers!
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Spam-Blocker] Spam is such a nuisance, we all need to do what we can to help spammers go out of business. This article suggests a novel way in which you can Stuff the Spammers with faxe email addresses and help bring down their systems.
- Software Review: Xsitepro Total Site Management Software
[Computers-and-Technology:Software] It's not very often I get excited about a software program, but today I'm so excited I just had to tell you about Xsitepro, the top tool for Internet marketers. In particular, those who have been using HTML applications programs like Dreamweaver and Frontpage to produce their Internet media will find this program revolutionary in that it can at least halve your site development time.
- Ebook Review: "The Super Affiliate Handbook"
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] There are probably tens of thousands of people selling others' products as affiliates on the Internet. Some are raking in huge sums of money ... ridiculous sums of money; others sign up and expect to earn millions, but because they don't do anything, never make a cent. If you're one of those making a handsome income online selling others' stuff, you won't want to read this. But if you are an affiliate and aren't doing so well, or would like to be an affiliate, this review will be the first step towards your success.
- How Long Does it Take to Design and Develop a Training Activity?
[Reference-and-Education] Quite frequently people responding to the above question on training fora make outrageous estimates of say, 40 hours for every hour of instruction, or give a percentage that is said to be an 'industry standard'. This article discusses some of the variables that make this type of prediction difficult and suggest some ways in which a more accurate answer can be determined.
- You DO Have an Email List Don't You?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] All the experienced Internet marketing gurus say it, "The money is in the list." They've found from experience that if you have a warm, ready to buy list of subscribers, you can sell to them time and again by email. This article explains how and why.
- Using Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) For Email Privacy
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] Many people sending email to multiple addressees reveal the email addresses of everyone to whom they send their messages. This is increasingly unacceptable etiquette with a simple solution available in most common email programs. This article describes Blind Carbon Copy and how to use it.
- Make Your Business Cards Work
[Business:Advertising] The humble business card can be an excellent marketing tool if used wisely. This article suggests ways in which you can optimize the value of your business cards.
- What? You Haven't Got a Capability Statement?
[Business:PR] If you provide consulting or other services and don't have a capability statement, you're probably losing business. Find out what a Capability Statement is and why you simply MUST have one.
- Ebook Review: Winning a Job is Easier with "Job Secrets Revealed"
[Business:Careers-Employment] When you send the same style application and resume as everyone else for your next job, you risk being ignored. Acland Brierty's "Job Secrets Revealed" ebook tells you how to stand out from the crowd, get your application noticed and win a job.
- Online Learning - The Case for Proactive Management
[Reference-and-Education] The belief among some online learning providers is that technology will handle it all. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It is as necessary to manage online learning as it is a classroom delivery ie, in a hands-on, proactive way if you aspire to quality outcomes. This article compares two university lecturers, one who abdicates his management role and the other who is proactive. Find out which you would prefer?
- Online Learning - What Makes an Online Learning System?
[Reference-and-Education] Online learning systems follow a definite structure intended to enhance instruction and learning. This article considers those elements necessary for an online learning system.
- Online Learning - The Many Challenges
[Reference-and-Education] Online learning has taken a significant role in education and training with many people for it and against it. Before investing in online learning however, it's prudent to consider some of the challenges discussed in this article.
- Identifying, Creating and Using Your USP?
[Business:Marketing] If you are in business and don't have a USP you're in trouble. Don't know what a USP is ... even more trouble. Read on to find out what a USP is and how it helps your business.
- Using Outlook to Count Responses
[Business:Management] Here's a productivity tip that will save you a lot of time and trouble if you need to collate responses from staff for any reason, especially if you work for an organisation with a lot of staff.
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