The Hot Spot Bot

Gonzaga is King

Gonzaga (4-1) will arrive at sold-out Hec Edmundson Pavilion as a top ranked team instead of the underdog mid-major program of the past. The kings of the West Coast Conference certainly have ruled the state against an opponent from the supposedly superior Pac-10. The Bulldogs have the seven straight games over Washington covering the spread […]

Technology Helps Streamline Credentialing Services

New uses for technology can make the credentialing process for medical providers faster, more accessible, and more affordable through paperless credentialing. Paperless credentialing has been growing in popularity with credential verification organizations over the past three years because of faster turnaround time, the ease of letting multiple people access credentialing information, and lower overhead to […]

Marketing Must Reflect Customer Needs

Here is a small business marketing tip. When it comes to your marketing materials, what you like needs to take a back seat to what your clients and prospects need.
I see small business owners all the time creating marketing messages and materials based on their preferences and what they like. It seems logical enough, but […]

P2p File Sharing - Isn’t There Too Much Fuss Over It?

During the last week there’s been much noise over the BBC Newsnight show on Friday 24 February in which BitTorrent was accused of being a harbour for terrorists and pedophiles. Debatable as it is, it caused a surge of anger on the part of p2p users that can be seen on the BitTorrent forum. Ultimately […]

Infosnacking or Just Plain ‘Screwing The Dog’ On Company Time

Infosnacking was declared word of the year for 2005 by Webster’s New World College Dictionary. If you are reading this article while at work, and it is not research for your company or related to your job in some way, then you are officially infosnacking. Dang, we use to just call it ’screwing the dog’, […]

Packaging Made Frozen TV Dinners Possible

I was saddened to hear of the passing of one of the food industry
pioneers Gerry Thomas, One of our unsung heroes credited with
invented a “package” the frozen TV dinner that literally changed
the way we eat. Never mind that it was considered by
nutritionists as a step backwards, his invention still made a
major shift in the food […]

Health and Medicine - The Importance of a Positive Attitude When a Medical Crisis Strikes

The doctor’s words echo. You want to run away, you want to cry, you want to scream, you just want it all to go away. You want everything to be OK. The doctor’s words seem to echo because the doctor has just told you that you are facing a medical crisis. […]

The Death of Management

“You cannot treat a patient if he doesn’t know he is sick.”
- Bryce’s Law
INTRODUCTION
Epitaph:
“Here lies the body of ‘Management,’
Who at one time moved mountains but was put to death by
government regulations, social mores, office politics,
and general apathy. R.I.P.”
I have a good friend who was recently elevated to the job […]

Friends or Foe, The Importance of a Contract!

No matter what business you are in, how old you are, how long you have been doing business or who you are doing it with, a very important part of doing business is a contract. This is really the only thing that is there to make sure your partners do what they say they will […]

House Sneaks Through Pro-Gay Bill With “Children’s Safety Act”

Liberal democrats with the help of 30 liberal republicans, voted to add a pro-gay provision to the “Children’s Safety Act”. Under the cover of a hate crime, what we have are the thought police. It should be a crime for wrong behavior, not what you think. Existing federal hate-crime laws already cover women and minorities. […]