I recently read an article entitled Leverage your CRM to its full potential. To say I loved it is an understatement. We work on all sorts of CRM projects and this article really “nailed it” for me. But as I always add my two-pennies worth, I thought I would here…

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The Recruiters Network is running an event on 24 May 2012 – for recruitment decision makers who are looking to change or purchase a new CRM system in the next 6-8 months and/or wish to learn about innovative technologies in the recruitment market.

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A large part of my day is spent helping clients find the most appropriate solution for their requirements – varying from ATS, CRM, funky tech to make them more organised and rich… This inevitably involves a number of demonstrations or as one of my clients recently called it: “a Beauty Parade of solutions”. These are a great way of looking at your options, but I have seen some go horribly wrong.

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I am a masssive fan of anything that will save me time, and if it’s free, I am as a giddy as a kipper! I use Bullhorn Reach to monitor my network, and it gives me all sorts of benefits. Some recruiters already use it – but are you getting what you need from it, [...]

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So, you run your own business, you are a director of the department responsible for IT, or you are an IT Manager: you have outsourced your support to an IT Support business (so many of your are – and focussing your attentions on the running of the business, rather than the tech supporting it… good call!) But how do you extract yourself from them if things go bad?

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Are you like me and have a few PowerPoint presentations that you may have sweated over, that you would love to publish online? Well SLideshare is one of the ways to do this, and I have finally spent 2 mins doing just that!

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Do you have an intranet? Are you aware of the massive benefits these things have on businesses?

We are massive intranet fans, and are currently working on a couple of projects to help our clients become better internal communicators, so I wanted to share with you my 5 thoughts on the benefits of having an intranet.

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I adore listening to podcasts… I totally love them. I rarely have time to read mags and newspapers. A toddler and a busy business makes for very little free time, but I still want to know what’s going on out there and keep up to date with culture. I always advise ,my clients to think about this medium…

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Being a busy mum and running my own business means reading blogs and other online content research are often demoted in favour of all of my other day to day activities. So, I use Google Reader to help me gather online content and read it on the fly.

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I will be blogging about Google Reader very soon (watch this space), but in the mean time, please see my reasons why I think RSS feeds are so critical to your business process.

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