Gary Eckstein Microsoft Office 1 Process, Software, tutorial, visio
Microsoft Visio is a very useful, popular and powerful diagramming tool. The tool does however have its quirks and following some basic ‘best practice’ can significantly enhance the effective and efficient use of Visio. The following tips apply equally to Visio 2003 and Visio 2007: Repeat Shapes Particularly when using many pages in a single [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 domains
Buying and selling domain names can be a profitable business! There are many articles out there advising what makes for a valuble domain name however it boils down to a few basics: The shorter the name the more valuable. Words or terms are more valuable than non recognizable names (especially if people search for those [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 1 feedburner, ping-o-matic, rss, WordPress
Pinging blog directories is an important and worthwhile activity when posting. A common problem with pinging is that it is difficult to know if the ping has been successful. For example, you may specify that you require ping-o-matic and King Ping to be pinged (as I used to) whenever a new post is published. But [...]
Gary Eckstein Process 0 bpr, flowchart, ITIL, procedure, Process, work instruction
A lot of my work is spent designing and implementing ITIL processes. The one common denominator with all customers I work with is a lack of understanding that processes have various levels and that there is a substantial difference between a process and a procedure (or work instruction). Even if the stakeholder/s understand that processes [...]
Gary Eckstein Microsoft Office 0 excel, Software, tutorial
A Microsoft Excel 2003 or Excel 2007 workbook may contain multiple Spreadsheets (commonly known as Sheets or Tabs). Occasionally it is desired that the sheets are hidden from view. An example is where charts need to be displayed however the underlying data is not required to be seen. There are two options available for assigning [...]
