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E-biz technology tools can save you hours of time and increase your productivity at work. They can also be the source of incredible frustration, when man confronts unmanageable machines.
The reality is, you continually need to increase your skills, both with what you've got and with what's coming. In the workplace, as with parenthood, you're just never done! The following books show you how you can work better and smarter electronically.
For Inspiration
Forbes Greatest Technology Stories
By Jeffrey Young
While this book won't give you tips on starting your own electronic business or improving your own skills, it does give you some basic information on the entrepreneurs and inventors who revolutionized modern business through inventions like the silicon chip, the PC, and the Web.
Dealing with Hardware
PC Upgrades in 10 Minutes: Quick Steps for Fast Results
A SAMS Teach Yourself Book
By Galen Grimes
Not sure your machine is up to the tasks you're demanding? This book shows you how to evaluate your hardware to your purposes; gives you the right questions to ask about repairing, upgrading, or buying new equipment; and gives you suggestions on hardware such as modems, RAM, hard drives, and more.
Searching for Jobs
Job Searching Online for Dummies
By Pam Dixon
This book provides the basics in the well-explained, easy-to-access manner we've come to expect from IDG books. You'll find information on using email, marketing yourself, and creating online resumes. It also provides Web listings to help you explore the job market.
The Guide to Internet Job Searching
By Margaret Riley-Dikel, Frances Roehm, and Steve Oserman
From the Job & Career Information Service Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the American Library Association, this isn't a "how to" book, but rather an extensive guide to Web sites that will help you search for a job. It's comprehensive and helpful.
Creating, Marketing, and Running a Business on the Web
The following books are similar in approach and content. They cover setting up an electronic business--from choosing an ISP to creating your site, using mail and lists to access clients and customers, and promoting your business economically. In addition, you'll find information about selling your products and services electronically. Pick the one that best fits your needs.
The Internet Business Guide, 2nd Edition
By Rosalind Resnick and Dave Taylor
Marketing on the Internet
By Michael Mathiesen and Jerry Yang
Marketing on the Internet, 2nd Edition
By Jill H. Ellsworth and Matthew V. Ellsworth
Internet World: Essential Business Tactics for the Net
By Larry Chase
In addition to the topics above, this book also covers networking, sharing documents in real time, telephony, and faxing.
Improving Your Software Skills
There are so many books and self-study courses available for teaching yourself new software skills that to recommend one, you'd need to first determine the software product being used, the skill level of the reader, and the purpose for which the skill is being learned. The best advice in this category is to assess your own learning style, then pick the book and series best suited to that style.
For example, if you were using Microsoft Office 97 and wanted quick lessons that are step-by-step and easy to follow on the products included in Office, you might pick up the following.
Small Business for Dummies: MS Office 97
By Dave Johnson and Todd Stauffer
It covers quick lessons in creating presentations in PowerPoint, compiling lists in Word, and crunching numbers in Excel.
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