A few nice small business ideas images I found:
Catching up on e-mail…
Image by Ed Yourdon
This woman was sitting at an outdoor table of a small restaurant/coffee-shop on the west side of Columbus Avenue at 73rd Street. It’s the first time that I’ve seen anyone in this particular area (which is near a gym that I usually visit 2-3 times a week) with a laptop, and I was delighted to see that she had a Mac…. and not just any old Mac, but a MacBook Pro. (But not a MacBook Air 
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Note: this photo was published in a November 24, 2008 blog posting entitled "Mobile Tech Secrets for Getting Things Done On the Go." It was also published in a Dec 14, 2008 blog entitled "5 Fantastic Blogs To Improve Your Life." It was also published in a Jul 13, 2009 "Pimp Your Mac" blog titled "Pimp my Mail." And it was published in a Jul 24, 2009 blog titled "Step Away From the Computer." For some reason, it was also published as an illustration in an undated (Nov 2009) Mahalo blog titled "Macbook Air Battery" at www-dot-mahalo-dot-com-slash-macbook-air-battery. And it was published in a Nov 20, 2009 blog titled "Breng de klanten service naar de klant." It was also published in a Nov 23, 2009 blog titled "Customer Retention: How to Retain Existing Health Club Clients and Attract New Ones." And it was published in a Dec 4, 2009 blog titled "Every Mum Wrestles With Returning To Work."
More recently, it was published in a Jan 3, 2010 blog titled "Sunday Confessional: I Can’t Stop Facebook Stalking My Ex." And it was published in a Jan 22, 2010 blog titled "Best Places with Free Wi-Fi in Metro Detroit." It was also published in a Feb 11, 2010 blog titled "How Healthcare Organizations Can Benefit From Video Campaigns." And it was published in a Feb 14, 2010 blog titled "The Most Useful Bloggers on the Web." It was also published in a Feb 16, 2010 blog titled "Unresolved Obstacles to the Credibility of Online Degrees," as well as a Feb 25, 2010 blog titled Running your "Fitness Business: Online Software vs Desktop Software." It was also published in an undated (Mar 2010) blog titled "8 Ways to Discover New Music." And it was published, sometime in Apr 2010, as an illustration in the "About Me" page of Sarita Li Johnson’s blog. It was also published in an Apr 9, 2010 blog titled "Technology Vs. Human Eye: You Decide the Winner." And it was published in an Apr 17, 2010 blog titled "12 Hands-on tips to protect yourself online."
It was also published in an Apr 19, 2010 blog titled EMOBILE?UQ Flat????????????????????????? — which I’ve been told means "Ed Yourdon is really an amazing photographer," but I’m not sure I believe it. And it was published in an Apr 22, 2010 blog titled "Gift ideas for working mums," as well as an Apr 22, 2010 blog titled "La intimidad en Internet: el pánico de los padres de la Generación M" (the English-language version of which is Internet privacy: Generation M parents panic." It was also published in an Apr 27, 2010 blog about Facebook’s new privacy settings, titled "Facebook, cómo darse de baja," at www-dot-tuexperto-dot-com/2010/04/27/facebook-como-darse-de-baja/ . And on May 12, 2010 it showed up in a Web ad for the movie, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
It was also published in an undated (May 2010) HeartsForU blog , with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. And it was published in a Jun 7, 2010 blog titled "5 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Small Business Blog," as well as a Jun 8, 2010 blog titled "Zmiana IP na 10 sposobów." It was also published in a Jun 21, 2010 blog titled Is "Blogging for Your Small Business Dead?" And it was published in a Jul 1, 2010 blog titled "2 Things All Content Creators Can Do." It was also published in a Jul 13, 2010 blog titled "Top 15 Countries Where Most Active Bloggers Are Located." And a cropped, horizontally flipped version of the photo was published in a Jul 27, 2010 blog titled "Welcome to the Gig Economy." It was also published in an Aug 12, 2010 blog titled "Women Spend More Time Online," and it was published in an undated (late August 2010) blog titled "Why you need to write in advance (and I do to!)." It was also published in a Sep 14, 2010 blog titled "Cool Top Blogging Subjects Images."
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This is part of an evolving photo-project, which will probably continue throughout the summer of 2008, and perhaps beyond: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan — between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
I don’t like to intrude on people’s privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they’re still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what’s right in front of me.
I’ve also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting — literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I’ve learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture … after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it’s pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.
For the most part, I’ve deliberately avoided photographing bums, drunks, drunks, and crazy people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don’t want to be photographed, and I don’t want to feel like I’m taking advantage of them. I’m still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We’ll see how it goes …
The only other thing I’ve noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, *far* more people who are *not* so interesting. They’re probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I’ve photographed … but there was just nothing memorable about them.
Apple //c Unboxing
Image by dansays
AppleWorks gives you three applications–word processing, data-base management, and spreadsheet functions–in one powerful, easy-to-use package. Because these applications are integrated, you can exchange information between them with only a few keystrokes. AppleWorks also includes a built-in mail merge capability, allowing you to customize form letters with information from a data base.
Word Processor. Whether you’re using AppleWorks in a small business, at school, or at home, its word processor will help you express your ideas more effectively. You’ll enjoy such professional features as boldfaced and underlined text, superscripts and subscripts, proportional spacing, headers and footers, and on-screen display of page breaks.
Data Base. The AppleWorks data base is an indispensable personal organizer for all kinds of information, from personnel files to sales records to inventories of household valuables. Its versatile report generator lets you produce information in either tabular or label form.
Spreadsheet. Anyone who works with numbers–whether for financial statements, gradebooks, or home budgets–will benefit from using the AppleWorks spreadsheet. It easily performs complex or repetitive calculations, letting you make quick changes to easily evaluate various "What if?" situations.
New Features. AppleWorks’ mail merge capability lets you combine data-base information (such as names and addresses) with a word-processing document to create personalized form letters.
Increased file-size capacity allows you to create larger spreadsheets, data bases, and word-processing documents.
New spreadsheet features (such as logical ands and ors) let you create more powerful formulas than ever before.
AppleWorks. It’s the all-in-one solution for maximum personal productivity.
This package contains:
- Three 5 1/4-inch disks: Startup and program disk, Apple Presents AppleWorks tutorial disk, Sample files disk
- Two 3.5-inch disks: Startup, program, and sample files disk, Apple Presents AppleWorks tutorial disk
- Using AppleWorks reference manual
- AppleWorks Tutorial manual
- AppleWorks Reference Card
Optional equipment
- Apple Imagewriter II
- Second disk drive (5 1/4-inch or 3.5-inch)
- Apple Memory Expansion Card
Digg it!
Photo by Kathryn Yu.
Object oriented drawing concept
Image by anselm23
Update: I did this drawing in my reporter-style Moleskine sketchbook, which I use in a landscape format. Just so that’s clear….
Using Dave Gray (Dgray_Xplane) and his three-element approach to process and visual thinking (at left in this drawing), I’ve been thinking about using timelines on 45" or 48" high paper scrolls to create frameworks of interrelationships and cause-and-effects.
Dave uses objects (post-it notes, index cards, string, cards, etc) in frameworks (journeys, cycles, systems, scales, staircases) with drawings (stick figures, simple shapes, drawings-at-a-distance) to help businesses process ideas into graphics that convey complex information simply.
In like fashion, I can use objects (the same set) in frameworks (the same set) with drawings the kids do (the same set as I teach them) to show how events lead by cause and effect to new events; how those events affect people’s decisions in the future.
Different notecard colors can be different people: yellow for cultural figures; blue for science; red for military/political; green for tribes/nationalities (i.e., FRENCH, BRITISH, etc). I can layer index cards (yellow index card on green indicates a British writer like Shakespeare; red index card on green indicates a French diplomat like Tallyrand). White notecards can be events. Post-It flags can be used for marking elements that are likely to be on the tests & quizzes. Kids sign and date notecards, to show when they understood specific elements. Draw arrows and cycles and systems directly onto backing paper. Use tape, embroidery floss, sewing needles and small magnets to connect ideas to each other.
Each class will do their own, but from time to time pull out another class’s timeline/map so that each class can see that "their way is not the only way."
