10-16 March 2003

Volume 5, Issue 9

Newsletter
Inside this issue: Notices: Did You Know?

Career Center: Tips, Jobs 2
Wanted & Available
Random Thoughts :
Wisdom & observations
FYI: Odds & Ends
CyberResources: Web
sites you can use
CyberTools: Useful
downloads, usually free
Class Notes: Who’s do-
ing what
Executive MBA program and adjacent hallways) are served by • The six official lan-
class information of interest. a wireless hub. If your laptop was guages of the United
configured for hardwire access in Nations are English,
2 Juniors - New IPD partners and
these facilities, and has wireless French, Arabic, Chi-
dinner schedule are posted at
card, no additional configuration nese, Russian, and
http://emba.unomaha.edu/IPD.
2 for wireless access is required. Spanish.
htm
• According to Nielson
Seniors —Countdown - 158 days Media Research, the
3 All - ABC Breakfast, April 2, 2003:
to go for average person watches
Elenor Clift, correspondent and
2003 as of television about 4 hours
panelist on the McLaughlin Group.
3 03/10/03. per day – or, more pre-
“A View from Washington.”
cisely, 27 hours and 53
minutes a week.
4 All - The Executive MBA area of
CBA (RH118, RH120, RH 123 and

Productivity Tips:
Tips designed to help make your time on the computer easier and
more productive.
Word: Protect Text From Changes—Suppose you want to allow a
number of other users to open, review, and edit your Word 2000 docu-
ment. However, there's a paragraph or section that you want to make
off-limits to changes. To protect a specific block of text while allowing
changes to the rest of the document, put that block of text into its own
section and password-protect access to it. Here's how: 1. Put the
cursor in front of the first character of text you want to protect. Then, go
to Insert | Break, click Continuous under Section Break Types, and click
OK. 2. Move the cursor to the end of the block you want to protect
and repeat Step One. 3. Click anywhere within the new section, then
look for the section's number in the bottom-left corner of the Word win-
dow. 4. Go to Tools | Protect Document, click Forms, and click the
Sections button to display the Section Protection dialog box. 5. By
default, all sections are selected; deselect all sections except the one
you want to protect, and click OK. Now, you can add a password to
prevent a clever reviewer from unprotecting your section. Set a pass-
word, click OK to close the Protect Document dialog box. Thereafter,
until you unprotect that section, the cursor will refuse to land within the
protected text. Reviewers can see, but not change, that section.
Word: Make Your Column Headings Vertical - “If you have columns
headings that just can't be shortened, turn the headings to run vertically
on the page, which allows you to keep your columns narrow and still
display the entire heading. Here's how to do it: 1. Create your table as
normal; 2. Select the row containing the column headings; 3. In the
Format menu, click Text Direction. In the Text Direction dialog box,
choose the example showing the format you want to use; 4. Click OK.
The column headings are changed according to your selection. Now
drag the column separators to make the columns smaller so the table
takes up less space .”
PowerPoint: Annotating Slides - Comments added to a slide are
not shown during the actual presentation and can be convenient
indicators. To add comments, click on Insert > Comment and type
your comment info the comment box that pop up's up. Click View >
Comments will display the comments. furthermore, the Next Com-
ment and Previous Comment buttons on the Reviewing toolbar can
be used to browse thought the comments in the presentation.
PowerPoint: Recolor Clipart - The Picture toolbar in PowerPoint
has an extra Recolor Picture button. You can click this to display a
dialog that lists all the colors in the original image you have selected,
and enables you to substitute any of these with one of your own.
Note that this capability applies only to clipart that has not been anti-
aliased (i.e., not converted to a drawing object.)
Windows: Index Your Drive for Faster Searches - Speed up the
Windows’ search function by orders of magnitude by indexing your
disk. It takes time the first time around, but after that, updates are
quick. To index, go to Start l Settings l Cotrol Panel l Administrative
Tools l Computer Management l Indexing Service.
Internet Explorer: Finding the Update Date in Microsoft IE 6 -
When you visit a web page, you may not have any way of knowing
how old the information really is. If this is important to the informa-
tion's validity, you can at least find out when the page was last up-
dated. Just click in the Address Bar and type
javascript:alert(document.lastModified) and press Enter. A dialog box
displays the last date and time that the page was modified
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Inside this issue: Career Center:

Notices : EMBA program 1 Recruit employees; find a job; learn Internet job mar- • Sales Manager, Cox Business Services (Small
& class info of interest ket resources and protocols. Send job or employee Accounts), Omaha, NE, Salary not an-
wanted ads to :cbayer@mail.unomaha.edu nounced Learn More
Productivity Tips: Tips 1
• Business Manager, Cox Business Services,
for computer productivity Job Available Omaha, NE, Salary not announced, Learn
Opportunities with Cox Communications More
CyberResources: Web 3
sites you can use • Business Planning and Analyses Director, Largo, Resources
FL, $71,400—$119,420 Learn More
CyberTools: Useful 3 • Vice President Business Operations, Omaha, EngineeringDegreeHunter - "Job search service
downloads, usually free NE, Salary not announced. Learn More that helps engineers and advanced degree engi-
• Community Relations Manager, Omaha, NE, neers find engineering employment."
Class Notes: Who’s 4 http://www.degreehunter.com/engineering_jobs
$52,800-&67,100 Learn More
doing what . html

Random Thoughts:
Wisdom and observations culled from many sources.
“If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you
will also suffer a defeat.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you
plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894
“There's a generous current in the American spirit. And if we can simply
give voice to that once in a while, I think it's a good message.”
Fred McFeely Rogers, ‘Mr. Rogers’
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you
can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people
spend it for you.” Carl Sandburg, US poet

“No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest peo- “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experi-
ple, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to ence. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you Harold Geneen
might otherwise.” Marian Anderson, US opera star

FYI:
Odds & Ends
Nine Unconventional Strategies For Reinventing Your Career—by
Herminia Ibarra. The turbulent business market has caused many
people to rethink their careers—sometimes without choice. Here are
some tips for reinventing your career from Working Identity: Uncon-
ventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, published by Har-
vard Business School Press (continued).
Unconventional strategy 4: Resist the temptation to start by making
a big decision that will change everything in one fell swoop. Use a
strategy of small wins, in which incremental gains lead you to more
profound changes in the basic assumptions that define your work and
life. Accept the crooked path. Small steps lead to big changes, so
don't waste time, energy, and money on finding the "answer" or the
"lever" that, when pushed, will have dramatic effects. Almost no one
gets change right on the first try. Forget about moving in a straight
line. You will probably have to cycle through a few times, letting what
you learn inform the next cycle. You will know that you are learning at
a deeper level when you start to question what aspects of your life
apart from your job also need changing.
Unconventional strategy 5: Identify projects that can help you get a
feel for a new line of work or style of working. Try to do these as extra-
curricular activities or parallel paths so that you can experiment seri-
ously without making a commitment. Think in terms of side projects
and temporary assignments, not binding decisions. Pursue these
activities seriously, but delay commitment. Slowly ascertain your en-
during values and preferences, what makes you unique in the world.
Just make sure that you vary your experiments, so that you can com-
pare and contrast experiences before you narrow your options.
Unconventional strategy 6: Don't just focus on the work. Find people
who are what you want to be and who can provide support for the
transition. But don't expect to find them in your same old social circles.
Break out of your established network. Branch out. Look for role mod-
els—people who give you glimpses of what you might become and
who are living examples of different ways of working and living. Most
of us seek to change not only what we do; we also aspire to work with
people we like and respect and with whom we enjoy spending our
precious time.
Unconventional strategy 7: Don't wait for a cataclysmic moment
when the truth is revealed. Use everyday occurrences to find meaning
in the changes you are going through. Practice telling and retelling
your story. Over time, it will clarify. Major career transitions take three
to five years. The big "turning point," if there is one, tends to come late
in the story. In the interim, make use of anything as a trigger. Don't
wait for a catalyst. What you make of events is more important than
the events themselves. Take advantage of whatever life sends your
way to revise, or at least reconsider, your story. Practice telling it in
different ways to different people, in much the same way you would
revise a résumé and cover letter for different jobs. But don't just tell the
story to a friendly audience; try it out on skeptics. And don't be dis-
turbed when the story changes along the way. (To be concluded next week)
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Inside this issue: CyberResources:

Notices : EMBA program 1 Web resources worth a look.
& class info of interest
Census Bureau Facts for Figures: Women's His-
Productivity Tips: Tips 1 tory Month - Facts and statistics regarding women, in
for computer productivity topics such as earnings, education, jobs, motherhood,
FYI : Odds & Ends 2 and more. From the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://www.census.gov/Press-
Release/www/2003/cb03ff03.html
Career Center: Tips, 2
Jobs Wanted & Available Database of Corn Products - Lists over 600 prod-
Random Thoughts : 2 ucts made from corn. There are three ways you can
Wisdom & observations browse this list -- by product application, by general
category, or by supplier.
Class Notes: Who’s 4 http://lepton.marz.com/ncga/comm_dev_center/
doing what index_PG.asp
Office 2000 Tutorials - There's a nice collection of
free tutorials for the Microsoft Office 2000 compo-
nents at http://webfaculty.aub.edu.lb/
~webwork/Tutorial/florida/index.htm
eBizSearch - "eBizSearch is an experimental niche
search engine that searches the web and catalogs
academic articles as well as commercially produced
articles and reports that address various business and
technology aspects of e-Business. The search engine
crawls websites of universities, commercial organiza-
tions, research institutes and government depart-
ments to retrieve academic articles, working papers,
white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles,
and published statistics and facts."
http://www.ebizsearch.org/
BusinessLaw.gov - "Legal and regulatory information
for America's small businesses." Includes a collection
of "Plain English Guides" to state and local informa-
tion, starting a business, handling finances, managing
employees, doing business, and getting out of busi-
ness. Also info on rulemaking and compliance assis-
tance. http://www.businesslaw.gov/
CBS MarketWatch— A free program, enables you to
create an unlimited number of portfolios and track up
to 200 ticker symbols for options, mutual funds, and
stocks on all the major exchanges in each portfolio.
You can also customize price and value views to dis-
play the data. Prices are automatically updated every
five minutes. http://cbs.marketwatch.com/
Mappy - Road maps in Europe. Type in your depar-
ture and destination information, and Mappy will give
you a detailed map in seconds. Get maps of specific
towns. Mappy will help you plan out an itinerary
(including booking a hotel and choosing a restaurant),
and even calculate how much you'll pay in gas and
tolls. Finally, you can download these maps to mobiles
or Palm Pilots. http://www.mappy.com

CyberTools:
Tools & things, usually free, worth checking
Iespeaker. This free download reads selected text aloud. Highlight
the desired text, right click and select Speak from the context menu,
and IESpeaker reads from the chosen text.
http://www.iespeaker.com/
Online Books Page - The Online Books Page is a website that facili-
tates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It
also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the
benefit and edification of all. Lists 18,000 titles at present.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
PagePlus - Free. Desktop publisher. Ready to make the leap to
desktop publishing? You might want to start with PagePlus 5 since it
won't hurt the wallet. See how you like doing it and if you use it often
enoughThe free download comes with 119 wizards, 10 samples, 40
fonts, 99 animated GIFs, 166 pieces of clipart, and 72 backgrounds.
It comes with numerous publication options typical of desktop pub-
lishing programs such as ads, brochures, stationery, flyers, newslet-
ters, programs, posters, and greeting cards. Its wizards can walk you
through building an index, table of contents, calendar, and Web site.
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/pp/pp5/index.asp
Scout Portal Tookit (SPT)- This turnkey open source portal software
allows groups or organizations to catalog and disseminate their collec-
tions or resources via the World Wide Web without a significant outlay
of technical resources or expertise. SPT's metadata tool comes pack-
aged with Dublin Core fields which can be modified easily to fit a collec-
tion's specific needs. Other features include a flexible interface (through
separation of PHP and HTML), privilege settings, and workflow man-
agement features. Also of interest are a recommender system, reader
ratings and comments, and a Google-like search engine. SPT was built
with special attention paid to accessibility issues. Persons hoping to
take advantage of this excellent (and free) Toolkit will need to have
access to a Web server that supports PHP and MySQL, preferably
running Linux and Apache. New to Version 1.1.1 are features that in-
clude support for image metadata field(s), simplified data import and
export, color and logo customization, improved operation under PHP
safe mode, and bug fixes. http://scout.wisc.edu/research/SPT/
SurveyMonkey: Basic Service - Free. Web-based survey service.
SurveyMonkey allows anyone and everyone to easily create profes-
sional online surveys without the need to install or configure anything.
Results are stored on their server and made available to you for future
analysis. http://www.surveymonkey.com/
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Inside this issue: Class Notes:

Notices : EMBA program 1 Email your student news items for posting in Class Notes to: cbayer@mail.unomaha.edu.
& class info of interest Trying to find an Executive MBA Alum? Check our EMBA Alum database on the EMBA Student site.
Productivity Tips: Tips 1
for computer productivity
Class of 2003: Class Schedule: http://cba.unomaha.edu/xmba/schedule/2003Sched.htm
FYI : Odds & Ends 2
International Project Planning Documents / info at:
http://cba.unomaha.edu/xmba/Project/PorjectHeadstart.doc
Career Center: Tips, 2
Jobs Wanted & Available
Class of 2004: Class Schedule: http://cba.unomaha.edu/xmba/schedule/2004Sched.htm
Random Thoughts : 2
Wisdom & observations
CyberResources: Web 3
sites you can use
CyberTools: Useful 3
downloads, usually free

Archived newsletters are

available at:
http://emba.unomaha.edu/
Archive/2003/archive2003.htm

Did You Know?

• The College of Business
Administration has many
highly qualified and moti-
vated students seeking
internships. If your com-
pany is interested, contact
Dr. Jonna Holland at:
jholland@mail.unomaha.
edu or (402) 554-3156

• Many of our professors are

available for summer in-
ternships. They can bring
their expertise to the projects
or problems of concern to
your firm. Contact Dr. Lou The secret to success is to hang in there!
Pol at 55 4-259 6 or
lp ol@mail.unomaha.edu
for more information.