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Social Networking
Many organisation has a Facebook's page as an integral part of their social media campaign. At NTU Business library, we have build our presence in Facebook. Posting from our current business blog will also automatically posted into the Facebook page. In Facebook page, you can discussed and meet other NTU Business Library users.
Don't miss out one of our Business Librarian, Hazman Aziz who is covering the Facebook business development and the tones of resources that he is sharing out within the Facebook's sphere
Click here to find out out Facebook page in details. We are also exploring other social networking side heavy to promote our advocacy work.
Small Loans, Big Dreams
How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World Book Description A comprehensive look at the concept of micro-financing [caption id="attachment_1205" align="alignright" width="127" caption="Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World"][/caption] Micro-financing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. It can be implemented on the massive scale necessary to respond to the urgent needs of the world's poorest. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts looks at the lives of micro-lending borrowers from the Grameen Foundation in Bangladesh and Chicago. All of the ...
Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business
High-Impact, Low-Cost Social Marketing That Works! With more than 80,000,000 affluent, savvy members, Facebook is today’s fastest-growing marketing opportunity! But traditional marketing methods won’t work here. In Facebook Marketing, best-selling author Steven Holzner reveals new social marketing techniques that do work, and shows you exactly how to make the most of them. Using true case studies, Holzner introduces powerful new techniques from today’s smartest Facebook marketers...and helps you avoid pitfalls that can cost you money and credibility. No matter what business you’re in, you’ll learn how to create bottom-up, “viral” Facebook marketing programs that achieve maximum results at minimum cost! [caption id="" ...
Icons of Business: An Encyclopedia of Mavericks, Movers, and Shakers
Synopses & Reviews Information below is taken from Powell's books. Publisher Comments: The huge popularity of The Apprentice reflects the degree to which business has emerged as a primary force in popular culture. Not suprisingly, what it takes to succeed in the cutthroat corporate environment is not unlike show business--strong ego, ability to withstand rejection, creativity, and risktaking, to name a few of the requisite qualities. Moreover, business figures are increasingly spotlighted in the popular press, either lauded as exemplars of vision, drive, and service to the community or vilified as monsters of greed. For the millions of students pursuing degrees related to ...
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Accounting, Banking & Finance
New Online Courses For Thomson Reuters DatabasesFeel free to sign up for the courses in the eAcademy that you can access in your pc.
The registration steps are:
1. Go to Thomson Reuters Customer Zone at https://customers.reuters.com/Default.aspx?
2. Select Register at the top right hand corner of your screen.
3. Input your domain email address.
4. A temporary password will be sent through to your email.
5. Input your corporate email and [...]
Hospitality Management
NBS signs MOU with AscottNBS signs MOU with Ascott to offer management trainee programmes and internships.
“LHZB (21 Jun 08, Pg 31) reported on the opening of the Ascott Group’s Ascott Centre for Excellence, a new global hospitality training centre in Singapore that will provide a full range of hospitality programmes to raise awareness of hospitality as an attractive career [...]
Information Technology & Operations Management
NTU Library Talk: Supporting Faculty Knowledge ProductionThis talk looks at some of the primary shifts in digital scholarship and the related changes in the nature of the information profession. It highlights the challenges of being in a time of transition as well as the opportunities to create new services and products that bring significant value to our constituents. Mary Lee Kennedy will refer to the work at Harvard Business School, as well as related activities with colleagues in other institutions, including the new opportunity for a Global Knowledge Exchange via GKEN.
Marketing & International Business
Crowbar Awards 2009 at ACRCThe Crowbar Awards highlights the best emerging talent in creative communications and design in this region. There are 6 categories – advertising, design, interactive, photography, film and the Crowbar Challenge. The results were announced and awards presented on 28 August 2009.
NTU came in 3rd in the Top 10 school ranking after Nanyang Academy of Fine [...]
Strategy, Management & Organization
Library Talk: Surviving Peer Review & Best Practices on Publication EthicsCome early and receive a copy of “Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics : A Publisher’s Perspective”,
while stocks last.
To register, visit www3.ntu.edu.sg/lib/publishing
Business Law
Singapore moved to 3rd spot for least-corrupt nationAccording to Berlin-based non-government watchdog Transparency International (TI), Singapore has moved moved up to third spot for least-corrupt nation in the world, behind New Zealand and Denmark.
Also sharing the 3rd spot is Sweden, with Switzerland completing the top five.
This should be good news for Singapore, after the efforts made to be taken off OECD’s “grey [...]
Entreprenuership
Social Entrepreneurship: Creating ChangeIn this Tulane University program, David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World, J.B. Schramm, founder and CEO of College Summit and Susan Davis, chair of the Grameen Foundation USA, discuss the role of the social entrepreneur in addressing social issues.
These innovative people have found solutions to many problems by combining their social expertise [...]
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