Category Archives: Small Business
How will the Federal Budget impact Small Business?
How will the Federal budget impact your business? Business Enterprise Centers (BEC) are holding sessions that will discuss and cover the important aspects of the Federal budget and how they will impact your business.
If you own or manage a micro or small business, you can’t afford to miss this budget briefing.
Minister for Small Business, The Hon Brendan O’Connor MP, will present the 2012 budget initiatives and other economic measures designed to support small and micro businesses in Australia. The briefing will also include a presentation by Associate Professor in Economics at UTS, Gordon Menzies on global and national economic events likely to affect your business.
This interactive briefing will be streamed live via Sydney and you can attend the local networking event
Location: The Igloo,
Nelson Campus
Box Hill institute
Cnr Nelson and Whitehorse Rds
Box Hill, Vic, 3128
Cost: $50
Finger food, tea, coffee provided
Downloadable Registration Form
Downloadable Additional Information (PDF)
Start-Up Tip: How to Fight Procrastination!
Tales of Mere Existence – “Procrastination”
Being self employed and working from home we are often faced with distractions and bouts of procrastination. There are a variety of methods you can use to avoid procrastination I particularly like these simple techniques suggestions:
- Set Priorities.
- Break the Task Down into Little Pieces
- Set Up Small, Specific Goals.
- Take One Small Step at a Time.
- Reward Yourself Right Away When You Accomplish a Small Goal.
- Use a Time Schedule.
- Learn How to Tell Time.
- Optimize Your Chances for Success.
- Delegate, if Possible.
- Just Get Started.
- Look at What You Have Accomplished.
- Be Realistic!
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Oakenco’s Web Weekly Snapshot!
It’s difficult to keep up with the 1,000s of articles and continual technological developments published daily, so each weekend Oakenco is going to publish a selection of articles, blogs and news that we hope you will find interesting and relevant to your online business.
Articles will be arranged by category to help you quickly navigate to what interests you the most. Topics that will be included are, small business and bookkeeping advice, social media, marketing and technology. Along with any other news and information we believe may benefit your online business.
Here is this weeks list of interesting articles, blogs and breaking news:
Small Business:
- 9 Things Businesses Need to Know About Web Security By Mashable – Are you aware of the various common methods of internet security attacks?
Bookkeeping:
- Virtual Bookkeeping? Please Explain? By Louise McLoughlin – An excellent article sharing all the how’s of remote bookkeeping services!
Social Media:
- How a Social Network Helps Families Coping With Autism - Computer access and Social Media is giving voices to those that can’t always speak!!! I would highly recommend following @CarlysVoice such a mindblowingly strong individual!
- HootSuite Adds Support For MailChimp, RSS Reader, More by Mashable – I’m a tweetdeck fan, but looks like it’s time to explore the virtues of Hootsuite.
Twitter:
- Craigslist Founder Will Donate $1 Per Tweet About
#Squirrels4Good - Were you part of the social experiment?
Facebook:
- Facebook Buys AOL Patents From Microsoft For $550 Million In Cash By TechCrunch – Microsoft and Facebook partnering up? Interesting development.
- LinkedIn Launches iPad App, Takes New Direction By Mashable – Great news for all those Apple product users!
- As Pinterest’s Hype Peaks, Growth May Be Slowing By TechCrunch – Pinterest never piqued my interests, do you use it? What are your thoughts?
Blogging:
- How To Set the Canonical URL for a Post or Page in WordPress - By Ask Kim -
- How to Write a Great Paragraph By ProBlogger – So you have a great heading, but you’re losing your readers after the first 2 paragraphs, here is some great techniques to writing well.
Google:
- Gmail Redesign No Longer Optional By Trindy Oakley – I’ve been using the new design for a few months, I quite like it!
- Seven Gmail Add-ons That Make Email Suck Less By TechCrunch – How many of these extensions are you using?
- Google Drive Goes for a Spin [HANDS-ON] By Mashable - I’m really enjoying the product integration by Google but will probably stick with Dropbox a while longer.
- Enterprise Open Source Usage Is Up, But Challenges Remain By TechCrunch
- A Faster Emulator with Better Hardware Support By Android Developers Blog
- Microsoft Takes On Dropbox With SkyDrive For Windows, Mac and iOS byTechCrunch – I’ll stick with Dropbox thanks!
- Chrome about to pass IE in browser share by Dave Girouard and Tweeted by Tim O’Reilly - Competition in the computer industry keeps everyone on their toes!
- Confirmed: Galaxy S III To Pack Samsung’s New 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad Processor By TechCrunch – I love my Galaxy SII so I’m really excited about this next release!
Drupal:
- Google announces Summer of Code results for 2012 – Drupal gets 13 projects!! By drupal.org
- DrupalCon Munich is around the corner: call for papers and registration open By drupal.org
- Drupal Downunder 2012 Group Photos: Tag yourselves! Photo on G+ or Photo on FB.
Conferences:
- Melbourne Internet Show – 30 April – 1 May – Looks like some very interesting sessions, Oakenco will be there!
- PyCon Au 2012 - Early Registrations OPEN!
- Australian Virtual Assistants Conference 2012 (AVAC) - This coming weekend 4/5 May.
- BarCampMel 2012 - It’s confirmed 28/29 July 2012 and tickets are selling fast!
