Business Dashboard Roundup – Plus How You Can Make Your Own (Soon)

I recently posted some screenshots of some internal dashboards I built a while back at UniversityTutor.com.  These are fun and addictive to check each day, but they can also serve an important purpose in your business of keeping you motivated and helping you spot trends. Here are some cool dashboards I’ve spotted around the web lately: 1

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Movenpick Hotels and Resorts Award GM Mehdi Othmani with Best Growth Team Trophy

Möevenpick Hotels & Resorts, the Swiss-based upscale hotel management company, recently held its annual general managers conference at the Möevenpick Hotel Cairo-Media City. Themed “Africa the New Horizon 2”, the three-day-conference was headed by Jean…

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Would You Like to Experience Umbria This Fall?

In late October 2008, I spent an amazing week with my friends Bill and Suzy Menard at their villa Fattoria del Gelso just down the road from Assisi. I wrote about many of my experiences in our special report on Umbria . We ate our hearts out (the villa cook Teresa is not only a doll but an amazing chef), visited vineyards (lots of wine tasting) and small charming towns, ate some more at some of the region’s best restaurants, explored the history of Assisi, shopped for ceramics, took a pizza making lesson, visited Perugina and learned how to make chocolates, watched the olive harvest, roasted chestnuts and drank wine in front of the villa’s fireplace and chatted late into the night.

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ItalyVacations.com Hiring Italy Travel Specialist

Since so many Italy travel professionals read this blog, we’re helping our friends at ItalyVacations.com (and you guys, too) by spreading the word about an open position in their New Jersey office- Italyvacations.com seeks very technically skilled, energetic web savvy travel professionals to support online consumers and plan and create complex travel bookings. We offer custom designed itineraries, including flights, hotel, car, train, cruises, tours and transfers. Detailed knowledge of Italy and the ability to convert a sale is a must.

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Lazio Day Trip: Fossanova Abbey

In the March print issue of Dream of Italy , Ann Cochran writes about exploring the coast of southern Lazio . While her travels mostly take her to the seaside resort towns, Cochran says that a nice break from the sun and sand lies a short drive inland at Fossanova Abbey. Movie buffs might recognize it.

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Lazio Day Trip: Fossanova Abbey

It’s a Good Friday For New Camping Gear

Life’s full of questions, but answers are hard to come by. For example, I’ve always wondered why it is that if existence precedes essence, why did I know my neighbor’s BO before I knew my neighbor

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Buona Pasqua da Chianti Turismo

Un augurio sincero di Buona Pasqua a tutti voi da parte dei nostri hotel: Hotel Vecchia Cartiera Colle Val d’Elsa ( last minute Pasqua ) Hotel Relais della Rovere a Colle val d’Elsa ( offerta di Pasqua ) BUONA PASQUA e BUON SOGGIORNO IN TOSCANA!

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How to Be a Travel Agent- Selling Vacations for a Living

Not everyone is lucky to find a great job that they love. When you decide to learn how to be a travel agent then that will be something that you can appreciate. It isn’t hard to become a travel agent, and there is no formal education required

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I’m Willing to Drive for the Pork Ribs at Cambinos Asian BBQ

I first heard about Cambinos Asian BBQ when it showed up as an outing on my dining club’s calendar . Even though it was in OC, just the thought of Asian BBQ was enough to get me in my car for a drive beyond LA County boundaries, especially since I had such a wonderful experience with Park’s Finest BBQ . By the way, owner James Sar, is Cambodian, but named his restaurant Cambinos after his former Filipino-Cambodian basketball team that used to play around Orange County.

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My "Sweet" Love Affair with Platine Cookies + GIVEAWAY

Congratulations to Shane for winning this Platine Giveaway! When it comes to food, I usually lean more towards savory than sweet.

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March 2010 Issue – Lazio Coast, Panzano in Chianti, Piemonte Agriturismo

Our March newsletter – out this week – contains just the information you may need to plan your 2010 trip to Italy. (If it doesn’t sure many of the 70 back issues we provide to paid subscribers will do the job.) Here are the articles in this issue: Between Rome and Naples: Exploring the Lazio Coast From seaside resorts to Roman ruins to heavenly gardens, this piece of coastline – equidistant from Rome and Naples – offers something for everyone.

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Rome: Ceiling of Nero’s Golden Palace Collapses

The Associated Press reported that the ceiling of Roman Emperor Nero’s Golden Palace unexpectedly collapsed on Tuesday, but fortunately, no one was injured, as the collapsed area is currently closed for restoration. Officials believe heavy rains in Rome caused the partial collapse, reported BBC News

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If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there

“Have a nice holiday” with these words usually begins the most pleasant moment in your life – vocations! You close your eyes and can imagine endless number of voyages, trips, goings out, parties or just laying in the chaise lounges on your back yard, it depends. Holidays are expectations

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Green Hotel Key Card

More companies, specially green Hotels, are becoming earth friendly and are starting to use sustainable products. For example the wooden hotel cards that are made by some companies called the Sustainable Cards, Guest Acess International and Cadmus

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Top 10 Favorite Purses from the Pros

It’s finally Spring and time to throw out that old purse.  Embrace the fresh, new season and time of new beginnings with a new purse!  To help you decide which of our many fabulous purses you’d enjoy, we’ve picked our top 10 favorites.   (listed in no particular order) 1. Ellington Nicole Hobo – The best thing about this bag, besides the great color selection, is the size.  Large, but not gigantic, it fits in perfectly with today’s casual chic purses.  It also has enough interior pocket for pens and lip gloss but still leaves enough room for your wallet, sunglasses, cell phone and Kindle.  Classification: too adorable! 2. LUG Taxi Tote – Talk about space!  Ideal for books and a water bottle or a beach towel and sunscreen, this bag can accompany you anywhere you want to go.  AND it has a clear coated bottom for easy clean up of spills.  With a removable mirror and coin pouch, this tote can double as one or your favorite purses, too.  Classification: awesomely functional! 3.

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Mostra sul Bauhaus a Siena

Il 20 marzo a Siena è stata inaugurata una importante mostra sul Bauhaus , movimento artistico particolarmente espressivo nell’architettura, nell’arredamento e nel design, all’interno dei Magazzini del Sale di Palazzo Pubblico. I 90 anni del Bauhaus e i 150 della sua Università a Weimar: due ricorrenze celebrate attraverso la riproposizione della storica mostra del Movimento Bauhaus tenutasi nel 1923 nella città tedesca di Weimar, gemellata dal 1995 con Siena. All’inaugurazione organizzata dall’assessorato alle Attività internazionali in collaborazione con l’assessorato all’Urbanistica e alla Cultura, aperto al pubblico, hanno partecipato l’assessore all’Urbanistica Fabio Minuti, il sindaco di Weimar Stefan Wolf, il rettore dell’università Bauhaus e il curatore Norbert Korrek

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ESTAS Award for responsible travel in Europe launched on Facebook and Linkedin !

The VESTAS awards in Europe (Vision-Destinet European Sustainable Tourism Awards) have kicked off through a social media campaign on both FACEBOOK and LINKEDIN This aiming at creating more awareness on European sustainable tourism initiatives. 44 countries are eligible to participate: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium , Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland , France , FYR Macedonia, Germany , Georgia, Greece , Guernsey, Iceland , Ireland , Israel, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania , Malta, Moldova, Netherlands , Northern Ireland, Norway , Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey, Ukraine and Wales You can participate at the following sites: Awards will be given to : Most Responsible Destination (villages, towns, cities and county-level NUTS III-V) Most Sustainable Tour Package Most Sustainable Carrier (air, rail, ship) Most Responsible Accommodation

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The All New LDSTS Blog

You will probably notice a few changes around here since your last visit, not least to our title, which has become Swift Flyer. Clients and business associates will likely recognise the name from our Company newsletter, which has been landing on their doormats regularly since the early 1990s. We became aware that the content of this blog was evolving and the focus had shifted from purely

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Il treno del vino

Da Siena a Montalcino , nel cuore verde della Val d’Orcia , un viaggio esclusivo per centocinquanta passeggeri fra antichi gusti e panorami incantevoli. In Italia, culla di ogni bellezza, nasce il nuovo turismo slow. Per chi ama viaggiare in libertà, alla ricerca della vite primordiale o a caccia dei vini del futuro, avvolti da un’arte e una storia eterne.

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expats in Costa Rica

Posted by Website Introductions: When we think about the real estate in Costa Rica, an expat is sure to have a fun time, depending upon the amount of money that his company may or may not be willing to allot for expenditure and so on, while tending to business in a land foreign to their own. Read more: expats in Costa Rica [click] Tags: expat work , trip to the country . Comments: 0.

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