Website Design: Tips for Wireframing Wireframes allow developers, designers, trainers, managers, marketers, etc. to communicate and transfer knowledge to different types of audiences through the use of diagrams, images, models illustrations, or drawings. They exist in the form of screenshots, diagramming, and modeling applications. A few of these features are already included within existing applications. …

Negotiation is a part of any business, and a lost contract means lost revenue. Make sure you're not making these mistakes that could cost you your next contract.

What does the zone have to do with presentation skills? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist, and author of Flow and Finding Flow, says that when we are in a state of flow, we are completely immersed in our task and at peak performance. We feel sufficiently challenged but confident in our skills or ability to do the …

Are you prepared for a cyber attack? On Thursday morning the New York Times announced that, over the past four months, Chinese hackers have been perpetrating a campaign of attacks on the paper’s computer systems. Here are more details from the Times article, written by Nicole Perlroth, that broke the story: The timing of the …

Pinterest's recent changes reflect the growing importance of ecommerce and marketing in social media. Pinterest wants to maintain its reputation as a clean, safe web destination, and has plans to keep expanding.

You stay late at work, never miss deadlines, never show up late and your work is top notch. You’d think that by doing all of this, you would, at least once in a while, get thanks and recognition from your boss. Unfortunately, your boss is busy dealing with a the latest crisis. As a result, …

When I saw a line in a listserve posting referencing that phrase, it took me back to my early days (30+ years ago) in fundraising. Back then, the phrase, “Give ‘Til It Hurts,” was part of the lexicon of the capital campaign. It was a simpler time, folks were a lot less self-centered than people …

Legal actions against an entirely different company create a crisis management scenario for the vendor You don’t always have to do something wrong to land in crisis, just ask nutrition supplement vendor Herbalife, whose shares dropped a worrying 11% as a result of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s actions against a completely different organization. Here’s …

One of my first jobs after coming back from the United States Marines Corps was an inside sales job, downtown in a family-owned men’s clothing store. I had no preconceived notions. In fact, I didn’t know what to expect. I wanted to earn money and I was determined to do my best. However, it did …

User Stories & Documentation: Humanizing Project Management I was reading about Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management when I came upon the term ‘Agile User Stories’. As an introduction, Agile is a methodology used for software development projects. It provides more control than just stepping through the analysis, design developing, testing, and implementing stages …