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	<title>Onward</title>
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	<description>Software Development, Management and Technology for Business</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What Ever Happened to Training?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=27</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Management</category>
	<category>Software Development</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Years ago, training was a standard part of business software deployment. Today it’s the exception. What happened? 
	Of course, training is expensive. Start with the trainer who’s often a highly paid expert. Add on travel expenses for the trainer or even worse, the staff. Finally, consider the time that your employees are away from their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satellite Maps Are So Passé</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	When I’m visiting a new out-of-town destination, I’ve become accustomed to knowing what the destination looks like – at least from a thousand feet straight up. If you haven’t yet tried this technology for yourself, go to Google Maps and after typing in a location, click either the &#8220;satellite&#8221; or &#8220;hybrid&#8221; button on the upper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Google</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=25</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 23:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Business</category>
		<guid>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	What can a business learn from Google&#8217;s success? A short post from ZDNet&#8217;s Garett Rogers includes four &#8220;lessons&#8221;. Click here to read it.&#160;

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		<title>Detecting Humans</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>All</category>
		<guid>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Ever try to sign up for a service on the web (like a free email account), only to find yourself stuck trying to interpret a set of barely discernable characters that you’re required to decipher for entry? Obviously the site wants to verify that a human, and not another computer, is signing up – but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Effective Executive, Part I</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=22</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>All</category>
		<guid>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	It’ll be an essential piece of every effective executive’s toolkit: a news aggregator. Many just don’t know it yet. 
	Before I explain why, a confession and a plea! First, the confession. I can’t possibly communicate how big an impact a news aggregator will have on your ability to digest the massive amount of new information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Email at Work</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Management</category>
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		<guid>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Do you know anyone who uses their company&#8217;s email to send personal email? The courts have clearly and understandably ruled &#160;&#160;&#160; that email belongs to the employer and that the employer has the right to monitor all email and internet activity. It’s no secret that many do. 
	I personally know one person who was fired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technological Innovation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>All</category>
		<guid>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	How did the technological innovations that improve our daily lives come to be? Answering this question is of interest to businesspeople and technologists everywhere. 
	A wonderful source for detailed histories of inventions as diverse as the COBOL programming language and the flexible drinking straw is a magazine published by American Heritage called American History of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s AERO and Why Should I Care?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Early next year, Microsoft will be releasing the predecessor to Windows XP, called Windows Vista. It’s loaded with productivity enhancements, including a new user interface code-named AERO (Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open) that according to Microsoft is “is easier and more fun, even as it makes users more productive”. 
	If you’d like to read a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kudos to D-Link!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=17</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>All</category>
		<guid>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=17</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Whether you’re assembling an office chair, building a bicycle or adding a piece of computer hardware, it seems universal that the instructions are poorly written. They often turn a simple task into an unnecessarily confusing one. Diagrams that aren’t clear, incorrect assumptions and lack of support just add to the frustration. 
	Recently I installed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike up the Band</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=16</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Software Development</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>All</category>
		<guid>http://blogs.rosssoftware.com/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Few of us enjoy installing software. What could be more boring than watching a string of green dots slowly fill a progress bar? Thankfully the days of having to monitor and load 27 disks to install an office suite have long since passed, but installs look much the same as they always have. Some have [...]]]></description>
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