Norbert Haupt
Dumbfound Your Competition
Here is an excellent article by Darren Hardy about how to turn the business down-turn in December into a success-generating engine.
Belgian Labor Laws Must be Different…
…to be able to write an article like this. I would not dare to do that in this country.
System Uptime through Hurricane Sandy
Our company is serving a large Eastern U.S. state with an Internet-based system that needs to be up 24/7. Some 40,000 childcare providers and 200,000 children in care statewide depend on this system for attendance tracking and payments for care provided. Our datacenter for the system is located in downtown Jersey City, right across the [...]
Using Social Media and Facebook Changes
When Facebook changed its look and feel from tabs to the new “timeline” look, landing pages for companies no longer worked they way they were designed. See this article for more detail. Before the change, companies could design a crafty landing page and all users went to that first. Now – that is gone. Of [...]
Unfriend, Unfollow, Unlike – Oh No!
Has this ever happened to you? You proudly look at your Facebook friend count on your profile: 72 (I know I don’t have a lot of friends on Facebook, but that’s another subject altogether). Then, the next morning, you check and it’s 71. Somebody unfriended you! Your immediate reaction is to take it personally. Of [...]
Death of the Cold Call – or Warm Call
Sales gurus tell us that cold calls no longer work. Check out this article by Gitomer that has many great points about the subject, particularly if you are still making cold calls, or if you work for somebody who is making you. I was lucky that I have never been in a position where I [...]
Businesses Snooping in our Lives
An angry man waltzed into a Target store outside Minneapolis and waved a flyer in front of the manager: “My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?” The manager didn’t [...]
Is Head Start a Failure?
The American Thinker article of Feb 2, 2012, by Charles N.W. Keckler and Ryan L. Cole presents an interesting treatise of Head Start, the federal program designed some 50 years ago to mainly supply part-time care and education to three- to four-year-old children of impoverished parents. The article calls Head Start and experiment, conceived by [...]
Ohio Swipe Card System in the News
The childcare time and attendance system recently implemented in Ohio gets lots of news coverage. Here is an aricle in the Dayton Daily News. There are some comments included about the benefits of biometric authentication versus swipe cards: Ohio JFS directors prefer a system that would read a child and parent’s fingerprint or palm print [...]
Facebook Valuation
Facebook gets a lot of press right now about its expected $100 billion valuation. There are a reported 850 million users. 150 million of those are in the United States. The other 700 million are spread around the rest of the world. About half of all Facebook users log in daily. I am one of [...]
Articles and comments about the growing importance of technology in the human services sector.