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Carnival of Business Intelligence #2

--By Sagar Satapathy

Welcome to the second edition of the Carnival of Business Intelligence. Here are some great posts that made the cut because of their quality and content.

Almomento presents Open Call For Project MastermindX posted at BurstCreativity. Ability to be creative in all of the aspects of our life can enhance it beyond belief. Since creativity enhances with practice, we have to put ourselves through an intense emergence into the world of creativity, to make a profound change in how we approach life.

Phil presents Rising Sea Levels « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity. By the end of this century according to Time Magazine, sea levels could rise by more than 4 feet!

Scott Lee presents Challenges and Powerful Potential With Network and Multi-Level Marketing posted at Dirty Mechanism. Multi-level marketing itself, in pairing with network marketing, is often looked upon as a giant pyramid scheme, or scam.

Anna Farmery presents It is not the words, it is the understanding posted at The Engaging Brand. Communication in business is not about telling, it is about understanding.

Alan presents Risk Taking - Living life to the fullest posted at Made to Be Great. Don’t play close to the fire or you will burn, don’t climb to high, you might fall; be realistic or you will just end up disappointed.

Wilson Ng presents Profits Straight to the Bottom Line posted at Reflections of a BizDrivenLife. Using MIS to understand your cost structure as well as in making pricing decisions are a must. but first, you must understand how it impacts your bottom line.

Murad Ali presents Ethics in business: How to make the right decision? posted at The New Business World. Ethical questions have plagued business owners ever since they have developed a conscious. The standards of ethics have changed over time and vary from culture to culture.

Praveen presents Review of "The Rich Jerk" - Get It Free, Plus $1 posted at My Simple Trading System. Learn more about the "Rich Jerk" marketing book.

Vahid Chaychi presents Viral Marketing Strategies - Learn How to Spread the Words for Free! posted at Internet and Search Engine Marketing. Do you know how websites like Hotmail and Google became popular and well-known? They didn't spend a single cent for advertising. They used the power of viral marketing.

That concludes the second edition of the Carnival of Business Intelligence. Thank you for promoting this carnival on your blogs through a link back. See you next time.

Carnival of Business Intelligence #1

Welcome to the first edition of the Carnival of Business Intelligence! It is really great to receive a good number entries to this carnival despite of the short notice given to our readers. I hope it will turn out to be a huge success in future. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

Emmanuel Oluwatosin presents How to harness the Intelligence of Customer to solve your problems posted at Emmanuel Oluwatosin: Inspiring Excellence, Realising Ambitions. Ever heard of the word “CrowdSourcing“? Fansourcing, crowdcasting, crowdfunding, or wikinomics? Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea.

GameProducer.net presents 80 Percent of Companies Won't Fail Within 5 Years posted at GameProducer.Net. Yet they keep telling us otherwise.

Lucas McDonnell presents More distributed tags means more personalization. posted at Uncommon Knowledge.. A brief article on the importance of distributed tagging.

Praveen presents My Simple Trading System: Tracking Customer Profitability posted at My Simple Trading System. In these days of global competition, businesses have to continually improve their profitability and margins, reduce costs, and boost their efficiencies.

Murad Ali presents Knowing your business’s strengths and weaknesses: A simple SWOT analysis. posted at The New Business World. Business owners often wonder whether or not they are in a strong or weak position when compared to their competition. The SWOT analyzes a businesses strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in order to help the owner/manager precisely where their business stands.

Priscilla Ortiz presents 10 Web tips for entrepreneurs posted at Priscilla Ortiz - Journal to Prosperity, Path to Freedom Inc.. These were a few sites that helped Priscilla get started with websites and blogs, it's a good start.

Vahid Chaychi presents Get Inspired by the Success Stories and Interviews posted at Internet and Search Engine Marketing. You may get disappointed while you have started a new business and it has not given any good result yet. Most people give up at this point and stop working. One of the best things that prevents you to give up, is reading the success stories and interviews of successful people in your niche. Learn how to find and read them every week.

Barbra Sundquist presents Top Five Places for Small Business Networking (HomeBusinessWiz.com) posted at HomeBusinessWiz. Networking. Does the word strike fear into your heart, or does it excite you with its possibilities?

Vincent McBurney presents Next time you want to dump testing look at the Hubble posted at Tooling around on the Information Server. This post details the sequence of events that lead to a major flaw in the Hubble Telescope image quality with lessons for BI and DW projects around testing and quality.

Charles H. Green presents Seductive Statistics posted at Trust Matters. If what you're trying to measure is intangible, your metrics may kill your results.

Jack Yoest presents Exxon and Global Warming and Capitalism posted at Reasoned Audacity. "Exxon, the sign of the double cross," quipped one leftist wag. The oil energy giant is often maligned by anarchists, non-capitalists and environmentalists. No matter what a Fortune 500 does, it will be maligned by socialists. And now the tree-spikers/tree huggers are even madder. Or are celebrating. It is sometimes hard to tell the difference.

That concludes the first edition of the Carnival of Business Intelligence. You will definitely agree that it is important for all carnival participants to do their part to support the carnival and help it grow by promoting it on their personal site. We will appreciate any such gesture on your part. Thanks!

Carnival of Business Intelligence to be Hosted Here

Here's a good news for our readers. We are going to host the first edition of the "Carnival of Business Intelligence" on February 19, 2007. We require interesting blog posts on business intelligence, software, data mining, data quality and other related issues. Feel free to submit your entries through the Blog Carnival Page.