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Casual Articles - Internet Facts from Start to 2000
Walmart was the first business to require all its employees to wear nametags. (There's a surprise!) Sam Walton created this initiative because he wanted his customers to "get to know the people they bought from."But the value of employee nametags spans far beyond getting to know people, it's all about being approachable. So whether you work in retail, hospitality, food service or sales, to wear a nametag is to be on stage. To be on stage is to be ready to serve your customers. And to be ready to serve your customers is to do your job effectively.Here are several ways nametags will help your employees maintain a
1991
The World Wide Web hits the Internet and the first web files appear at alt.hypertext, comp.sys.next, co
American small business is again in transition. Many employees, now working from home, are no longer tied to a geographic office and the woes of commuting. This is a relatively new phenomenon with hints of explosive sector growth in the days ahead. As this turbulent economy has forced downsizing, offshore restructuring and closures in large companies, many new entrepreneurs have been born. These are people, who instead of tirelessly attempting to find new employment and possibly enduring the same fate as previously experienced, are now starting small businesses and enjoying the benefits and perils of self-employment.There'
Vannevar Bush writes As We May Think for the July issue of The Atlantic Monthly suggesting a system of automated information access in which all materials are "associatively indexed".
1960
Project Xanadu is initiated by Ted Nelson with the purpose of creating a "docuverse" in which all written documents are interconnected and cross-referenced.
1965
Nelson, who is part genius and part mad scientist, coins the terms hypertext and hypermedia.
1980
Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), writes Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything (ENQUIRE), a program allowing the hyper linking of files stored on multiple computers in a network.
1989
Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project that would connect an infinite number of digital documents around the world.
1990
Berners-Lee develops the first browser, a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) hypertext reader.
The World Wide Web as Berners-Lee decided to call it, is launched at CERN headquarters on a NeXT computer, but is only accessible to those who have access to the CERN system.
1991
The World Wide Web hits the Internet and the first web files appear at alt.hypertext, comp.sys.next, com
In most organizations, sales managers are the essential bridge between the company's sales goals and the realization of those goals. The gritty day-to-day interactions between the sales people and their customers are frequently filtered through the perspective of the sales manager on their way up the ladder. And the aspirations and strategies of the company's management must be imprinted by the realism of the sales manager as they come down from above. Sales managers are the conductors who carefully orchestrate the tentative entanglement of the sales people with their management.It's an incredibly important and difficult j
1965
Nelson, who is part genius and part mad scientist, coins the terms hypertext and hypermedia.
1980
Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), writes Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything (ENQUIRE), a program allowing the hyper linking of files stored on multiple computers in a network.
1989
Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project that would connect an infinite number of digital documents around the world.
1990
Berners-Lee develops the first browser, a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) hypertext reader.
The World Wide Web as Berners-Lee decided to call it, is launched at CERN headquarters on a NeXT computer, but is only accessible to those who have access to the CERN system.
1991
The World Wide Web hits the Internet and the first web files appear at alt.hypertext, comp.sys.next, co
Organizations often get stuck in neutral when it comes to marketing. Sometimes, you just need a kickstart. Here are 14 ideas to push you into high gear.1. Do what you say you're going to do and do it on time. If you do nothing else, this is the one that can make a real difference in your business and in your life.2. Hold a monthly session with employees or associates to discuss marketing strategy and to solicit marketing ideas. Ask employees about what is happening in the field. Your customers often have the best new product and service ideas.3. Hire a marketing consultant for a day just to brainstorm on your
1989
Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project that would connect an infinite number of digital documents around the world.
1990
Berners-Lee develops the first browser, a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) hypertext reader.
The World Wide Web as Berners-Lee decided to call it, is launched at CERN headquarters on a NeXT computer, but is only accessible to those who have access to the CERN system.
1991
The World Wide Web hits the Internet and the first web files appear at alt.hypertext, comp.sys.next, co
As you may already have ascertained, it is our view that current, conventional advertising has been beset with problems from the very beginnings. Probably the principal problem advertising has is …accountability. Or rather the lack of it!As we have said before, the real differences that exist between competing products is frequently perceived as no longer significant.The result is that it is not self evident just what an advertiser has to sell that is so different and worthy of consideration.Therefore, if no significant point of difference is apparent, why is that product more deserving of the customer’s mon
1990
Berners-Lee develops the first browser, a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) hypertext reader.
The World Wide Web as Berners-Lee decided to call it, is launched at CERN headquarters on a NeXT computer, but is only accessible to those who have access to the CERN system.
1991
The World Wide Web hits the Internet and the first web files appear at alt.hypertext, comp.sys.next, co
Accenture recently published the results of their global study of Executive Priorities for 2004. Selling - acquiring new customers - is Priority 1, and Selling - Retaining Customers - is Priority #4. Selling is clearly a major concern among company executives.Acquiring and retaining customers is usually a major priority - that isn't news. Top salespeople are in great demand - that isn't news, either. What would qualify as real news? If more CEO's succeeded in developing a highly competent sales force.Most CEO's have no idea what it takes to sell in today's marketplaces, and their Sales Managers only think they know.
1991
The World Wide Web hits the Internet and the first web files appear at alt.hypertext, comp.sys.next, comp.txt.sgml, and comp.mail.multi-media.
Java is brewed at Sun Microsystems. Though this programming language was originally developed for the purpose of creating embedded applications, in 1994 Sun shifted Java to the Web where it revolutionized the way Web sites are designed.
1992
The phrase Surfing the Internet is coined by Jean Amour Polly.
PointCast Inc begins to offer its news and information service to corporate networks. The service used push technology to transmit specific information to end-users. Then in 1996 push technology will become a key driver in Internet development.
1993
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NASA) releases Mosaic, the first graphical Web Browser. Mosaic was written by Marc Andreessen, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undergraduate, who as legend has it, sustained himself on Skittles and Mountain Dew while writing it.
The New York Times and The Economist begin to announce the appearance of the World Wide Web.
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