Harvard Business School sets out to answer the question with an online interactive tool and some free (and paid-for) resources to help you deal with the answer.

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Great list of Web 2.0 office applications from Ismail Ghalimi who runs the Office 2.0 blog. Well worth a read if you’re look for alternatives to Microsoft (and even Google).

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PaidContent has announced that Emap will sell its consumer magazines and radio divisions to H. Bauer for £1.14 billion, and that from now on it will focus itself on b2b.

Emap will keep its business-to-business publishing division and will now “be a focused B2B business”. It bought retail and food online industry news source Planet Retail for £23 million in August and the Infrastructure Journal online construction news publisher Torcello Publishing for £20 million in July.
Despite having been seen as the most lucrative part of the business, latest half-year earnings showed the division’s revenue was flat, with operating profit down seven percent.

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I don’t know how long the BBC have had their guidelines for journalists up on their website, but I’ve only just come across them. Might be worth a read, if only out of idle curiosity.

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ProBlogger muses about the role of blogging and social networking and has a cautionary tale for those considering giving up their blogs to spend more time on social networks like Facebook. The bottom line: don’t. Or so argues Darren Rowse.

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Microsoft has announced the launch of Microsoft Search Server 2008 which will deliver enterprise wide search just like the Google Search Appliance – but with a free Express version available as a free download and with no ceiling on numbers of documents searched.

For those following the storm of protest around the Beacon advertising system introduced by Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, has now apologised to users and added a switch so that the feature can be switched off.

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The NUJ has voted at the Guardian for a new contract which scraps from current 9-day-in-any-fortnight cap and increases working weekly hours from 35 to 40. The deal didn’t come cheap: the Guardian agreed to a 4.8% pay increase now and a further inflation-related on next April. And there are new securities covering redundancies, according to paidContent. However, the deal does now allow the firm to ask journalists to work for any part of the organisation, paving the way for the integration of the Guardian and Observer and allowing much more resource to be aligned to the web.

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Wired launches its 10th Annual Vapourware Awards for software (and hardware) which promised to deliver but is just not there. Some of the nominations already on the site:

• Duke Nukem Forever – delayed countless times
• Tesla Roadster – the world’s fastest clean energy car (slowest in the world to get built?)
• IRAQ WMD – well???

and my personal favourite so far

• Chinese democracy

Anyone can enter and there’s a prize for the best comment, so what are you waiting for…?

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Yahoo has published its top trends for 2007 based on what has appeared most on its search engine. Google announced its trends a day later (as reported by Techcrunch.)

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