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The Roundup: March 3, 2003

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Table of Contents

  1. Editor's Musings
  2. Article: The New Ergonomics: Good Health Through Inconvenience by June Campbell
  3. Recommended
  4. Internet Sites Reviewed
  5. Freebies and Other Good Deals
  6. Joke of the Week

1. Editor's Musings

If you haven't heard about Habeas Inc. and their proposed "solution" to the problems caused by spam filters, then I encourage you to become informed. This solution is likely to create even more problems for small online businesses than do the filters.

Information, links, and a petition to sign here.

If what you read concerns you, then I would direct you to a newly formed group, Online Marketing Professionals United Against Censorship. I've joined; I hope you'll do the same.

2.Article: The New Ergonomics: Good Health Through Inconvenience by June Campbell

The furniture item fills up the corner of the room, holds your computer, fax/phone/copier, scanner, filing basket and a year's worth of office supplies. There's enough space left over to spread out a picnic lunch if you are so inclined. You settle comfortably into a big executive type chair on casters and get ready to call a few colleagues in for a meeting. As you wait, you talk into a telephone receiver that you're squeezing in place by crunching your shoulder up towards your ear.

That scene is SO nineties, workplace experts tell us. The trend of the new century is towards office furnishings and office equipment that encourage mobility. Get rid of all that big, expensive office furniture before it kills you, they say.

Replace it with a smaller "just big enough" desk and equipment that encourages you to move around as you do your job. In other words, get rid of all that "convenience." Force yourself into healthy action by making your environment inconvenient.

In the first years of this new century, the health hazards associated with a desk job have moved beyond conditions like repetitive strain disorder and carpal tunnel syndrome. Not that we can forget about those conditions, but there's more to worry about now.

e-thrombosis is a newly-recognized condition that afflicts people who sit still for extended lengths of time. And, sitting still for extended periods of time in the workplace is usually associated with computer use. E-thrombosis (medical terminology is Deep Vein Thrombosis or DVT) is similar to the condition suffered by long distance air travelers. It's no laughing matter.

E-thrombosis can be life threatening. A blood clot forms in the legs due to long hours of inactivity. The clot can break off and move into the lungs with sometimes fatal results. Although only one case has been diagnosed at this time, researchers believe that e-thrombosis may have contributed to many cases of pulmonary embolisms, but gone unnoticed.

Sitting still for hours on end leaves us vulnerable to this and possibly other health hazards. And, according to physiotherapists, working out at the end of the day isn't the solution. By that time, the damage has been done and the workout could do more damage.

Prevention is not difficult. All that is required is that you move about regularly throughout the day.

Get a desk that's just-big-enough, or an e-work station with movable modules. Put that fax machine in one corner of the room and the copier in another. Provide yourself with articulated arm rests for computer use. Get both an adjustable chair and a fitness stool. Switch back and forth between the two, and at intervals throughout the day, sit on a fitness ball instead of the chair or stool. Sitting on the ball forces good posture and strengthens core muscles.

Have room so you can pace about as you think. Get a phone with a wireless headset that allows you to pace during phone conversations. Have standup work surfaces so you can sort papers, read reports or talk to colleagues while standing. Look into foot switches that allow you to transfer some of the computer tasks to your feet instead of your hands.

Walking around only five to ten minutes each hour is all that it takes. In short, get moving! It's good for you.

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Many of you think of Clickbank as the "poor relative" of ecommerce solutions. Others think the only product you'll find at Clickbank comes with a sales pitch about somebody's amazing secrets to instant wealth.

All that aside, you can find some little gems through this network. There are over 10,000 products and the majority of them are not well marketed. Some, in my opinion, are worth a second look.

If you're looking for a fast, economical, and simple way to develop an employee handbook, you'll find one at Clickbank. A legal firm specializing in HR issues develops the manual using information that you enter online.

You'll be surprized at the specialized marketing information you can buy at this site. I found an ebook on marketing strategies for restaurants. Another merchant is offering downloadable marketing tools for accountants. I found an ebook offering tips for direct mail marketing and telephone sales. There's a do-it-yourself guide for franchised businesses, and another on how to start a child day-care. I found an ebook on how to market a plumbing business; another ebook provides marketing information for musicians and performing artists. There's an ebook on how to develop a great workshop.

You will find much more than business related products, of course. For example, if you're in North America, you've heard Dr. Gabe Mirkin on the radio. Now you can sign up for his free email newsletter, or order his regular newsletter via Clickbank.

You can buy an e-cookbook with recipes for foods served at popular fast food places. You can take a training course for scriptwriting with the BBC, or obtain training for bankruptcy paralegals. You can buy an ebook of baby shower games, download classical sheet music, or obtain training material for mathematically gifted students.

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4. Internet Sites -- reviewed by June Campbell

*** Roomba
At last, an affordable robotic vacuum cleaning. Does it work? Who knows? But it's a fun idea.

*** Ready
This is the US government's new site on homeland security.

*** Hackers Against Terrorism
This group of hackers has committed to bring down terrorist web sites.

*** Real Age
Take the test and find out your "real age" in terms of health and fitness.

*** Cornell University's Ergonomics Web Site
Plenty of information about ergonomics in the workplace.

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6. Joke: The Investor

An investor purchased 1000 shares of a pennystock at $1 per share.

The next day the stock was at $2. The client called the broker and said, "Get me 5000 more shares."

The next day the stock was at $4.

The client purchased $10,000 more shares.

The next day the stock was at $9.

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The broker said, "To whom? You were the only one buying that stock."


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