La team HECU Collective vient de l'annoncer Black Mesa va s'enrichir d'un cinquième chapitre, sobrement nommé Black Mesa : Blue Shift, avec la promesse de revivre les événements de Black Mesa du point de vue de Barney Calhoun, cela rappelle fortement l'extension Blue Shift d'Half Life et c'est bien normal puisque Black Mesa est un remake fan du titre de Valve ! Black Mesa : Blue Shift sera disponible le 17 novembre, la page Steam dédiée au projet se trouve ici. […]

Valve nous dévoile une nouvelle console Steam Deck, ne jetez pas de rage votre Deck OLED, nous vous rassurons il ne s'agit pas d'une évolution technique de la console phare de Valve, mais une nouvelle déclinaison cosmétique ! Valve proposera un Deck OLED blanc en édition limitée et contrairement à la version limitée transparente initiale, elle ne sera pas limitée à certains territoires. Donc, à partir du 19 novembre, minuit (UTC+1), vous pourrez tenter de commander votre Steam Deck OLED blanc en édition limitée ici, pour la modique somme de 719 euros, techniquement, il s'agit d'une Steam Deck OLED 1 To, avec une robe blanche et grise, le surcoût est donc de 40 euros pour cette version limitée. […]

Avec nos PC, il est clairement obligatoire d'acheter une licence Windows ou une licence Office, ou tout au moins un clé d'activation Windows ou Office pour pouvoir les utiliser sans aucune limitation et profiter de toutes les mises à jour. Le problème est que ces licences peuvent coûter plusieurs centaines d'euros. Heureusement, avec notre partenaire GVGMALL, terminé les licences à xxx euros et la petite note en bas à droite de votre écran indiquant que Windows n'est pas activé... En effet, GVGMALL.com propose des clés OEM authentiques pour Windows 10 à partir de 12 euros, Windows 11 Pro à partir de 19 euros et des licences Office à partir de 24 euros. Des clés Windows 11 accessibles, pour acheter votre licence, de plus, avec le code promo CCVIP, vous aurez le droit à 30 % de réduction sur vos achats, alors pourquoi se priver ??? N'oublions pas non plus qu'en passant à Windows 10, donc à partir de 12 euros, vous pourrez faire l'upgrade gratuitement vers Windows 11, ce qui vous permettra donc de profiter du dernier OS de Microsoft à moindre coût.     Vous pourrez aussi acheter les clés d'activation suivantes à des tarifs très avantageux chez GVGMALL avec notre code promo CCVIP : - Windows 11 Pro OEM Lifetime à 19.96 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. - Windows 10 Pro OEM Lifetime à 13.86 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. - Windows 11 Home OEM Lifetime à 18.41 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. - Windows 10 Home OEM Lifetime à 12.63 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. - Microsoft Office 2016 Lifetime à 24.11 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. - Microsoft Office 2019 Lifetime à 42.25 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. - SwifDoo PDF Monthly Plan un PC à 11.89 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. - Windows 10 Pro OEM + Office 2016 à 34.14 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. - Windows 10 Pro OEM + Office 2019 à 51.92 U+20AC après application du code promo CCVip. […]

Le collectif responsable du très bon Black Mesa dévoile son futur projet de jeu Rogue Point, qui proposera un accès anticipé en 2025. Le jeu de tir sera de type coopératif, avec la possibilité de jouer jusqu'à quatre compères afin d'affronter les mercenaires de MERX, vous disposerez des équipements suivants dans le but d'accomplir votre mission : - 22 armes - 5 skins de couleur et de camouflage pour chaque arme - 11 dispositifs tactiques - 25 accessoires, dont des lasers, des viseurs, des silencieux, des chargeurs à grande capacité, et plus encore - 55 objets cosmétiques à débloquer, chacun disponible dans de multiples couleurs et motifs […]

Présentation du Cooler Master Tempest GP27U, un écran IPS de 27 pouces proposant une dalle capable d'atteindre 160 Hz avec une définition UHD (3840 x 2160) et la prise en charge de AMD FreeSync. Il embarque un rétroéclairage variable sur 572 zones, capable de monter jusqu'à 600 cd/m² en SDR et 1200 cd/m² en HDR. Il affiche 1,07 milliard de couleurs, couvrant 99 % de l'espace colorimétrique Adobe RVB et 98 % du DCI-P3. Son taux de contraste est annoncé à 1000:1. Cet écran intègre également un client KVM et est proposé à 700 U+20AC. […]

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Johnetta Matthews

Well,

It's been a while since we've posted on Drifters. We're drifting
as usual :o). In a good way this time.


We added another blog to our blog group. I've always had a
fascination with cocktail dresses and heels. My fascination
started while singing in bands and competing in talent shows
in the military.

There was one thing all of us ladies would shop for prior to
a talent contest, "Cocktail Dresses". We here always
discouraged from wearing short dresses and always had a
hard time finding dresses. Especially when we were in
Germany. Well, I started a Cocktail Dress and Heels Blog
in memory of playing the dress up game.

Check out our latest post: Here

Our most recent post is on Red and Black Short Tight Cocktail
Dresses (Blush). What can I say? I love fashion and travel.
Let me know your thoughts.

Most of the dresses can be used as cruise dresses, New Years,
and dresses for the upcoming College Spring Break! Once again
check out our site. Hope you like it:

Glamour and Cocktail Dresses


Drifters Memoirs
Travel Banter Blog
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A posting from Brand autopsy that really makes us think.

Do SomethingOne of the earliest business rules I can recall that made a HUGE difference in my professional style was...

Never present a problem to your boss without having a suggested solution ready. Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution.In their book, Why People Business People Speak Like Idiots, Fugere, Hardaway & Washawsky take this lesson further. They call it... Do Something.

Here's an excerpt of the passage...

"...Never present a problem without actually doing something that represents a positive step to fix it. Even if it's nothing more than scheduling a trip to visit the disgruntled customer, do something. Show momentum toward and answer, even if you don't know what the answer is. There's a difference between bad news with signs of hope and bad news presented from the deepest pits of despair. You don't want to be the happy messenger, but it's not much better to be the hopeless prophet of doom."

For those passionate professionals wondering how they can position themselves for the next role at their organization this is one of those priceless tips.

For more tips on being better at your job, I highly recommend the book The Unofficial Guide to Power Managing by Alan Weiss. We've mentioned this before on Brand Autopsy... This book is so good you won't want to tell your co-workers you're reading it.

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Avoiding the Blame Game Between Sales and Marketing
by Anneke Seley
coauthor, Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology

One of the strategic prerequisites of Sales 2.0 — the use of innovative sales practices enabled by technology — is the alignment of sales and marketing. Organizations often have different executives with separate goals, perspectives, and compensation-plan objectives running sales and marketing. This can lead not only to internal unrest but also to negative customer experiences or perceptions of your company, not to mention poor sales results. Those companies that engineer their organizations to guarantee sales and marketing cooperation, however, achieve both competitive advantage and improved revenue.

One company that exemplifies a high level of collaboration between sales and marketing is newScale (link to newScale.com), a company that offers IT service catalog and service portfolio management software solutions. This is due to the close working relationship and shared compensation-plan targets of the company’s EVP and head of sales, David Satterwhite, and VP of marketing, Mark Hamilton. Their partnership commitment is so strong that they not only co-develop integrated programs and practices, but they also make presentations as a team. These executives’ dedication to collaboration, elusive in many companies, earned them a market-leading position in its field, with more than 1.5 million users worldwide, including 20 percent of the Fortune 50.

David and Mark are evangelists of sales and marketing communication and collaboration at the top level.

They make it a priority.
Both believe alignment has a critically positive impact on both top- and bottom-line results and frees them to focus on making their numbers. They also stress that it is a prerequisite to a healthy and productive company culture.
David and Mark maintain their commitment to alignment by considering each other members of their management teams, attending the other’s management meetings, and holding weekly one-on-one meetings or phone calls. They treat the annual marketing plan as a customer proposal, with sales being the customer, and share staffing and head-count planning.

They develop shared rules of the road.
This includes assuming a positive rather than adversarial intent on the part of the other department, which they model at the highest level, and recognizing that they have a shared ultimate metric of success — revenue growth — on which compensation in both sales and marketing is based.
David underlines the importance of upbeat psychology, as well as personal relationships, in business. By coaching his sales team to give marketing staff the benefit of the doubt when something goes wrong and by helping them resolve conflicts through trust, he avoids hours of management “therapy” and keeps his group focused on sales effectiveness and efficiency.

They leverage each other’s strengths.
David contributes his sales instincts for what produces revenue, understands what motivates his customers to buy and his sales team to sell, and has highly developed skills negotiating and winning deals. Mark is expert at operations, systems, and processes, distilling and analyzing complex concepts, and seeding and growing markets.

They collaborate on designing and implementing sales tools and technologies.
Price lists, closed-loop lead processes, weekly sales tips, win/loss programs, and continual surveys of marketing-program effectiveness are some of the tools the company developed that have passed the sales “sniff test.” Because they are designed by both sales and marketing, they actually get used.
Mark describes the difficulty he faced getting newScale’s sales people to report on lost deals. Sales people like to celebrate successes, not dwell on failures. By documenting the deals they haven’t won, sales people may feel they bring attention to their weaknesses in sales process or skills. When he asked his marketing group to call “lost” customers, though, Mark uncovered a solution to the problem of engaging the sales team. The calls revealed that many customers weren’t lost at all, as they weren’t happy with their chosen alternative solution to newScale’s product. Though newScale’s sales team didn’t win these sales initially, these customers became part of the pipeline a second time through Mark’s calling program. The sales group happily adopted the program when they understood it as a sales campaign that could unearth recycled, newly qualified leads.
Mark also recognized an opportunity to improve lead qualification and pipeline building using products from Genius.com (link to genius.com), but he wouldn’t dream of signing up to try them without running the idea by the manager of David’s deal-development team. Genius’ products truly support a Sales 2.0 (link to phoneworks.com/sales20) collaboration between marketing and sales by allowing reps in both departments to track and act on important data on potential customers (such as who is responding to e-mail messages, and what web pages they are looking at right now and for how long). By including the sales team in the evaluation and decision-making process, Mark succeeded in bringing a valuable sales tool into the company that is enthusiastically embraced by the lead qualifiers.

As customer requirements and economic conditions change, the old way of selling — independently of or in contradiction to marketing efforts — doesn’t work. Sales 2.0, the evolution of the sales function, includes rethinking sales strategy, people, process, and technology. With a business strategy that emphasizes sales and marketing alignment and collaborative planning and execution, companies will stay competitive and achieve sales success.

Anneke Seley is the CEO and founder of Phone Works, a consultancy that helps large and small businesses build and restructure sales teams to achieve predictable, measurable, and sustainable sales growth. As the 12th employee at Oracle, she designed the company’s revolutionary inside sales operation. Her book, Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology, is available at online retailers including amazon.com, bn.com, booksamillion.com, and borders.com. For more information, visit www.sales20book.com.

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Law Scholar Alfred E. Piombino joins the 258,254 State of New York Notary Public commission holders out of the four and a half million Notaries in the United States to mark the annual commemoration of “Notary Public Day” on November 7*, 2024. “On October 25*, 1639, Thomas Fugill (1577-1655) is recognized as the duly appointed (deputy) magistrate and “publique notary” for New Haven Colony in [PR.com]

After a period of focused scientific research, Borderless Renewables is re-emerging with pivotal insights into the policy frameworks essential for advancing decarbonised electrification. The global energy landscape is witnessing a rapid transformation, marked by the economic value of the electricity industry surpassing that of petrochemicals. Market projections from Allied Market Research and Precedence Research reveal [PR.com]

Two links to blog reviews have been added to the Dim Sum Go Go page....

I've added clickable maps for a few of the neighborhoods. Each map shows the restaurants in that area. There are...

I've just updated SproutSearch's blog spider. It now tries to fetch the RSS feed for a blog before parsing it with my HTML parser. This should save some CPU time and give me better results. It also gets the date and time of the blog's latest post and some statistics about the number of words used. This new data will allow me to generate better pages in the future. I am also brainstorming some methods of data mining I can use to make SproutSearch a bit more interesting. With over 8 million blogs in the database there are lots of possibilities. http://www.sproutsearch.com

I have just signed up at the search engine submission service www.blastengine.com . They submit to over 1 million search engines. I used this service a while ago and it resulted in more traffic for this site.

I got an email from Feedblitz saying that they are adding some new features to the free accounts. I have customized the appearance of the email with some graphics I had laying around. I'll try to make a more extensive email template later.

www.problogger.net/archives/category/birthday-prize-giveaway/ ProBlogger is having a birthday bash with $54,000 in prizes. ProBlogger is a blog dedicated to the topic of making money with blogging. It is a tantalizing idea, but I tend to spend more time programming my site than writing on it. Still, I enjoy reading the tips about blogging, which I may actually implement someday. I am writing this post as my entry to win 2 LG 20" USB LCD monitors provided by DisplayLink (www.displaylink.com) That would be an awesome compliment to my new 22" Viewsonic LCD. So, everyone check out ProBlogger, it's an interesting read.

Call of Duty Black Ops 6, c'est tout simplement le 21è Call of Duty à sortir depuis son avènement en 2003. Que de chemin parcouru en plus de 20 ans, plusieurs franchises dans ...

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Ça été officialisé cette nuit par Mr Shuntaro Furukawa, l'actuel big boss de Nintendo, la Nintendo Switch 2 (nom de code temporaire) sera rétrocompatible avec tous les jeux de...

Fin octobre, on apprenait l'arrivée de la version physique PS5 de Black Myth Wukong. Une annonce soudaine et presque inattendue, d'autant que le lendemain, le jeu était dispon...

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U.S. blocks UN Gaza ceasefire appeal | 8 Dec 2023 | The U.S. has cast the lone dissenting vote against a proposed UN Security Council resolution that would have demanded a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war amid rising civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip. Thirteen member states voted in favor of the resolution, which […]

Environmental Watchdog Group Publishes Listing of 243 Asbestos-Laden LocationsSometimes I used to wonder if anyone would do this.Environmental Watchdog Group Publishes Listing of 243 Asbestos-Laden Locations. Well, it's about time, isn't it?more info hereOriginally Posted on 11/06/2005 22:15:26Content source: http://bobrboobd.blogspot.com/2004_04_16_bobrboobd_archive.html#108210458497514356

WGP has just released their newest marker, the WGP Black Magic 2005. WGP has completely done away with the back block, in this marker, and the cocking rod connects directly to the bolt. This should help lower the cycling mass quite a bit, which should reduce the marker's kick.