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Everyone has heard of the prophetic predictions of Nostradamus (e.g., fall of the twin towers), and maybe of even ancients making prophecies as it relates to technology. Although these prophecies are intriguing, a topic more interesting to me is the flipside, technology being able to predict the future.

Almost everyone communicates via email everyday at work or in our personal life. Here are come of tips to help you communicate in a better way.

1. The email subject should be detailed enough to give the recipient an idea about the email content without having to open it.
Using single words like 'Hi', 'Hello' or 'Help' often don't convey what you mean to say. Everyone's mail box is flooded so it is a good practice to choose a detailed subject. It also helps in searching the messages in the Inbox.

I'm always looking for novel and inexpensive ways to get user feedback, especially for our non-profit clients. Formal online survey tools offer organizations an in-depth look into the users' minds, but many are expensive and time consuming to create and execute. Here are a few crowd-sourcing sites I’ve found to supplement my user-research toolbox:

Ask500People

So, I just started working here and it's pretty awesome. My official job title is "Front End Developer" but my email signature says "Creative Designer," which I think I like a little more.

It’s official. SXSW 2009 Interactive is open for registration!

If you didn’t go last year, I recommend you get in early and get ready because over the next 7 months you will receive announcements about keynote speakers that will move you out of your Herman Miller Aeron chair ...or hammock chair.

SXSW received over 1,000 panel proposals, and they want YOU to vote for your favorite. Don’t forget to pick your panels tomorrow, August 8th.

It appears Google has recently changed its algorithm for Local Business Listings by only giving the top spots to those feeding the search engine’s ever increasing need for content. Keep reading to learn what are Google Local Business Listings, what’s changed recently, as well as how to optimize so your local business is on top of the map.

Pets are a huge part of our lives, research has shown that having pets in the workplace reduces stress and increases the feeling of well-being. It seems that more and more companies are allowing dogs in the office and LevelTen Interactive happens to be one of them.

With the informality of Instant Messages it is easy to forgo proper grammar on the Internet; so in order to maintain professionalism, it is important to try to remember at least the most commonly used errors. Some of these are mistakes that spell check can catch. However, many of them are things that we simply have to watch for. So here are a few of the more popular mistakes, they may seem intuitive but you would be surprised how many references agree, these are killers.

Here are the Highlights that were particularly helpful to me…

Proper punctuation:

Here is an interesting concept that was brought up at one of the company meeting's. What makes people respond to a email invitation, a call, a interactive campaign or any other kind of tool that companies use to generate new interest in a marketplace

The core to anyone's response is respect. Respect of intelligence, respect of the other person's time and the fact that we are all exposed to the same media asking us to spend money in one form of media or another, so your target audience is just as savvy as you think you are about these things.

Some of us are fascinated by Ones and Zeros and how they make computers do things, and then there are some of us who are intrigued by how Data makes the sales world go around. In the world of selling, nothing is more important than being able to tell a sales person, walking down a street, late for a meeting, the address or cell number of the person they are going to meet. If that information is not captured and linked in a relation data source, so that it can be quickly found....you have a disaster!