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4-day work week explored

Leelanau County offices could be open for only four days per week if the county Board of Commissioners accepts a proposal from a committee of county department heads and employees. At its executive committee meeting Tuesday morning, the county board heard about “flexible work option” and “compressed work week” proposals that the board directed department heads to consider following the board’s June 10 executive committee meeting.

The head of the county’s Planning and Community Development department, Trudy Galla, said the committee did not consider “flex-place” proposals that would allow workers to work from home or “telecommute” from other places; nor did they look at any “job-sharing” proposals.

But, she said, the committee did find that the county might save a considerable amount of money in energy costs if the normal 35-hour work week was compressed into four longer days instead of five shorter ones.

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TAMPA — After previous stops in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, the Second Life Community Convention steps into reality at the Tampa Marriott Waterside the weekend of Sept. 5.

It’s visiting a city that already has had its share of entrepreneurs who have jumped into a realm only the Internet, and maybe even a little science fiction on the side, could create.

Tim O’Connor is one.

A software development manager for Catalina Marketing in St. Petersburg, O’Connor spends his evenings as Persephone Milk, a cartoon-like virtual representation of himself who can interact with others in the three-dimensional world of Second Life. As the head of Musical Alchemy, O’Connor’s Persephone sells animated pianos for $8 each, constructed from nothing more than pixels and lines of computer programming.

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Blog on and use web pages to drive up sales opportunities

As many as 50pc of firms still do not even have a website, according to BT.

"There's a tremendous under-served need in the marketplace to enable small businesses to use the web as a sales and marketing environment," says Ivan Croxford, head of BT's own response to this need called Tradespace.

Given the current economic slowdown and that marketing is often the first expense to be cut when firms face a financial pinch, here is a snapshot of some free services being used by firms on the internet.

Top tip: "Don't think out loud," says Mr Barrett. Remember that once on the internet the comment is there forever.

Traditional directories have moved online, like Yell.com. New free sites feature highly on natural searches: www.Brownbook.net and www.bizwiki.co.uk are fast-growing business directories with self-edited listings and customer reviews.

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