David Wyld
Bio
Professor, Consultant, Doer. Founder/Publisher of The IDEA Publishing (http://www.theideapublishing.com/) & Modern Business Press (http://www.modernbusinesspress.com)
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9 Holiday Party Survival Tips If You or Your Guests Are in Recovery
Helpful Hints on How to Have a Recovery-friendly Party This Holiday Season. _____________________________________________ (BPT) - Let’s face it. Drinking, drug abuse and depression soar over Christmas, Chanukah and New Year’s — call it the holiday blues. As you prepare to throw your annual holiday party, the compassionate host recognizes that the holidays can be a painful time for some family members and friends. With an estimated 22 million Americans in recovery from addiction, chances are one or more of your guests may be in recovery from behavioral health issues.
By David Wyld4 years ago in Psyche
4 Steps to Financial Fitness
(BPT) - The new year is just around the corner and it’s never too early to think about your 2020 goals — and for many, this means prioritizing finances. Taking the time to focus on your goals and determine what’s important to you financially is the best way to set yourself up for success, but actually following through can be difficult. These easy financial exercises from Vanderbilt Mortgage will help you reach your goals in the new decade.
By David Wyld4 years ago in Trader
7 Ways to Protect Yourself from Medicare Fraud
There are a number of things that you can do to protect you and your loved ones from being a victim of Medicare fraud. Keep these things to "do" and "don't do" in mind to be safe from the scams and fraud that impact so many seniors today.
By David Wyld4 years ago in Criminal
Mortgage Insurance: A Faster Way into Your First Home
Mortgage insurance is a stable, cost-effective way to obtain a low down payment mortgage, and offers distinct benefits to borrowers. It has been a cornerstone of the U.S. housing market since 1957, providing more than 30 million families with the opportunity to own homes despite financial barriers. If you are considering purchasing a home, it is important to understand your options, including your low down payment options.
By David Wyld4 years ago in Lifehack
How to Harness Emerging Technology
(BPT) - Whatever your small or medium-sized business (SMB), chances are you're dependent on increasingly advanced technology - or wish to use more sophisticated technology. Recent advances have been numerous and head-spinning, sometimes making it hard to keep up. The truth is, harnessing emerging technologies effectively may be exactly what takes your business to the next level, ensuring success in today's rapidly evolving, competitive business landscape. If you aren't using one of these emerging technologies in your business yet, it's likely that your business would benefit from doing so in the near future.
By David Wyld4 years ago in 01
Amazon Is Out-Amazoning Amazon
Since DARPA (the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) laid the foundation for the Internet and Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (no, Al Gore had nothing whatsoever to do with it!), one thing has been a constant as the online world has evolved: What you think is likely to happen is not what actually happens. In instance after instance in the now decades-long history of the Internet, the so-called "experts" and futurists—with the accuracy that makes futurism a field that literally anyone can be an authority in—have been consistently wrong in anticipating how the Web would develop and who the winners and the losers might be because of that.
By David Wyld5 years ago in Journal
Bricks Versus Clicks or Bricks and Clicks
Now two decades ago, in a Fortune article aptly titled" "E or Be Eaten," Stewart Alsop wrote: "The 'e' in e-business will soon be irrelevant... businesses will make 'e' such a core part of their business that the difference between 'e' and everything else will be nonexistent. Or they won't be businesses any more."
By David Wyld5 years ago in Journal
The Library Is Changing at the Speed of Google
The university library. For those of us of a certain age, many, many an hour was spent there. When we walked uphill through the snow - bothways, of course - to do research, there was simply no alternative. The university library was the place to be. It was where all research started. When you needed to do research, the library - not the World Wide Web - was your source of all information. Yes, it was also a social place and a study space, but more than anything else, the purpose of the library was clear: It had "the stuff" you needed to research anything - and there really was no alternative!
By David Wyld5 years ago in Education