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Even as Congress and the Obama administration flirts with shutting down the government every two or three weeks, federal employees and contractors are complaining they are being kept in the dark on how they would be affected if a shutdown happens.

 

Federal union leaders all but begged administration officials last week to share the government's shutdown plans, but they were left empty-handed.

 

Is anyone really surprise by the lack of transparency from the Obama…

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"How do I tell you that you don't know what you don't know"

I've had this same discussion far too many times. In my very humblest of opinion there are no experts yet. The entire space is evolving so quickly that what you thought you knew a few hours ago has changed. A new outlet has sprung up, a new option, a new potential way to use an existing tool, more people have arrived on an outlet and the dynamic has changed.

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Government contracts present significant opportunity and potentially significant risk. Success in this industry depends upon specialized knowledge and expertise in government contract statutes and regulations. Inexperience can lead to cost overruns, lost profits, disputes and costly litigation, as well as sanctions, serious fines or penalties. TD Government Solutions has the insight and knowledge to ensure compliance with…

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Criterion Machine Works is a small manufacturing company in Costa Mesa, CA. They've been in business for 75 years starting as a job shop serving the movie and then defense industries. They developed a few of their own products during their job shop days and evolved into a product driven manufacturing company.  The past two years have seen the manufacturing sector in America decrease by approximately 50% and they were not exempt from that decline. They slashed their budgets, inventories, and…

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Founded in 1938, Kennametal manufactures a broad range of advanced materials and components that deliver superior wear resistance and peak performance in demanding environments.  The industries they sell to are as broad as their product offering, including aerospace, defense, energy, chemical processing, power generation, and mining.

Lead instead of trying to catch up.…

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What's the next big thing? What should you be thinking about as Social Media explodes into a frenzy of evolution? QR codes!

QR codes are two-dimensional bar codes like the one pictured below at the right. They waere created in the mid-1990's by Denso-Wave to track component parts in the Toyota Manufacturing process.  QR codes are now being adapted to the tooling in the manufacturing process to track usage rates and life cycle.…



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Social Media is a 'new' way to sell. Selling is, after all, about relationships. People do business with people that they "LIKE" and merely having a website, literature, advertising,etc. isn't going to generate revenue.

What Social Media is doing is creating a new paradigm. I know that that sounds cliché. But I believe that it's creating a new "type" of business. Traditional marketing adapted, very successfully in the 1980's thru 1990's, to creating websites after they had experience…

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As we have worked with various companies on their social media campaigns one of the persistent problems that companies have had issues with is that their current employees do NOT always show up on their LinkedIn Company page.

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A shorter version of this article appeared in the American Machine Tool Distributor's Association "…

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