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drudra communications Hi, I`m Dinesh Rudra - a big fan of useful workplace communication. drudra.com is all about simplifying your communications and getting your message across in one piece. If this blog doesn`t help you, at the very least - I hope it entertains you!

06 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Do you know why people go to your site?

Do you know why people go to your site?

If you did know… you would make it easy for them to find the things they really need most from it. you wouldn’t have  irrelevant links and content on your homepage. your bounce rate wouldn’t be that high. you wouldn’t have people calling you up to ask you questions, the answers to which are already [...]

05 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Guy Kawasaki is giving away his first book

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Guy Kawasaki (author of Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries and other great titles in the entrepreneurship arena) is offering a free copy of his first book entitled The Macintosh Way to anyone who is following him (@GuyKawasak) on Twitter. Here’s the link to the offer. There’s even an iPad version.

05 August 2010 ~ View Comments

Miss South Carolina on how not to answer questions

Have you ever been put on the spot with an unexpected question, and didn’t know how quite to respond? If you relax, take some time to think about the answer and attempt to answer as honestly or as truthfully as you can, you’d be fine. Simple, right?  Unfortunately the simplest route is the one most [...]

03 June 2010 ~ View Comments

How to beat your competition even if they are Google

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How to be better than your competition at attracting visitors to your site and giving them the best online experience they can have. Lessons from a new search engine called Duck Duck Go. This isn’t a joke. It really is called Duck Duck Go.

25 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Creating a world of patient problem solvers

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Imagine if your job was to sell a product to a market that doesn’t want it but is forced by law to buy it. I’d be stumped but Dan Meyer’s found a way to work around it somehow. Watch him talk about his plans to create a world of patient problem solvers. I must say, [...]

24 May 2010 ~ View Comments

10 great resources for writing an effective ‘About’ page

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You may have noticed that I don’t have an ‘About’ page on my site yet.   All I have currently is a short introduction on the homepage about me and what I do. drudra.com is still evolving and I know it’s something I need to do fairly quickly. Why? Because no one is going to engage [...]

20 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Your website visitors shouldn’t be asking these questions

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Steve Krug, Author of Don’t Make Me Think, says When we’re using the web, every question mark adds to our cognitive workload, distracting our attention for the task at hand. The distractions may be slight but they add up, and sometimes it doesn’t take much to throw us. He goes on to describe a short [...]

19 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Combining video with visual timelines to create real impact

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YouTube is currently celebrating five years since the birth of their user community. To mark the celebration, they created a video to show the history and evolution of Youtube from the days of its humble creation to where it is today. [YouTube video - if your organisation blocks YouTube access you'll only see a blank [...]

18 May 2010 ~ View Comments

No money for a Photoshop license? Use pixlr.com instead

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Let’s face it. Software is expensive. But with open source forging ahead and free apps (useful ones) becoming  more and more available, cost of licensing and software options won’t be an issue for small businesses and individual contractors for much longer.

16 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Have a project brand you can be proud of

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Which of these two information sessions would you attend? Project PayMeNow Kickoff Session or The Financial Management System (Payroll Module) Upgrade Project Information Session