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Well here's a good place to start:
http://www.mylocalforums.com/offline-sales-marketing-social-networking/

But feel free to start a new thread there if you have a particular issue that you can't find the answer to.

I guess a lot of it is down to the type of employees as well.

We had a temp a couple of months ago, and for the type of work she was given, you could tell if she was emailing/social networking by the flurry of activity on her keyboard.

If its low skilled/paid administration type work, then I agree, remove temptation, and if possible, put a restricted policy in place.

But if the employee is of a higher pay grade, and expected to be a self starter/motivator, then leaving free web access gives an element of trust and respect.

In reality, you should have good systems in place to be able gauge if employees are being productive or not, and if they are continually not meeting their targets or objectives, then deal with it. If unrestricted web access is the cause, then its a pretty easy fix.

Maybe reward loyal hard working staff members with unrestricted access, which should introduce a self policing slacker stigma

I know what you mean, I used to always self build, but these days, and for what I use a pc for, I mainly live on a HP laptop, (and now of course a new shiny ipad)

It was always satisfying once you had got all your drivers sorted and your system configured, knowing that it was the best spec that your budget could afford. Mind you, that's when RAM was measured in MB and not GB

Really? Go on then Mike, sell it to us, other than cheap Vodka and the mafia

"Doing business in Russia is notoriously difficult.

A combination of excessive bureaucracy and corrupt officials makes it a hazardous enterprise.

For example, producing milk is fairly straightforward in most parts of the world.

But it landed Dmitry Malov in jail.

He started out by buying a milk-packaging facility. Then he bought two old Soviet dairy farms. He poured his life savings into them, and took out a bank loan to modernise them. He soon had a thriving business...

...The first sign that his investment was going to turn sour was when he had a visit from some men who turned out to be officers from the FSB, Russia's interior security service.

They tried to persuade him to sell his business at a knock-down price to an unknown buyer. Mr Malov refused."
BBC News - Russian entrepreneur 'jailed for not selling'

What a terrible story! It looks like things haven't really changed in Russia.

The quote that stood out for me was:
"...one in six Russian entrepreneurs is in jail, and that one in three prisoners in Russia is a businessman."

So you would sooner run a permanent PPC campaign versus trying to get your keyword ranked organically?

Surely it would be more cost effective to rank organically? Assuming it's one of your major keywords and a known converter?

Nope, onto spicy curries now

apparently nothing

Yup it's Googles own O/S, basically cloud based apps, so the idea is less bloatware and faster computing... in theory....

To be fair, I'm a big fan of the Chrome Browser (till it broke on the last update ) so I imagine this will be pretty good.

Bit of a bugger if you've no net connection though

Chromebook

$3000!! Blimey, and stuff in the States is a fraction of the cost of kit over here! Now I know why I don't use a Mac