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Dynamic Business is supporting a survey that analyses how you manage your money, and what types of content you find the most engaging on business websites.

With the streets of Sydney at a standstill today following the Sydney Harbour Bridge closure for over 2 hours, many small and medium businesses will be assessing their business contingency plans as they calculate the loss of productivity and revenue as staff struggled to make it into the office on time, or at all.

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The Entourage has teamed up with the NSW Office of Trade, Business and Industry to put on a half day event for MicroBiz week.

Arndria Seymour blogs about how to engage Generation Y through learning and development.

“Generation Y are the ‘connect me to everything’ learners. The ability to give them connection and meaning, search and explore or make it fun/entertain me is how they learn best.”

Australian job seekers continue to go online to search for jobs, but many are growing nervous about the potential career fallout from personal content on social networking sites, according to the latest survey results from global workforce solutions leader, Kelly Services.

Victoria’s Small Business Festival is taking place across the state during August 2011. Hundreds of exciting business events will provide inspiration, ideas and information for anyone interested in starting, building or running a business.

With the number of insolvencies continuing to rise among both small and large businesses, distressed companies must rethink their strategies towards banks and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) by conducting their negotiations in a conciliatory rather than a hostile or aggressive manner, according to PKF chartered accountants and business advisers.

The brightest and most innovative of Australia’s professional business mums will be named the winner of the 2011 Connect2Mums AusMumpreneur Awards in Sydney this August.

Shrugging off a stream of bad news around the globe, the YPO Global Pulse Confidence Index for Australia held steady in the first quarter of 2011, inching upwards by 0.4 point to 63.1. This marks its second-highest level since YPO began measuring CEO sentiment in July 2009, when much of the world was just emerging from recession.

Julian Smith of MYOB blogs about what the Federal budget means for SMEs.

“It’s disappointing and frustrating to see the Federal Government continuing to claim that lowering the company tax rate is a win for small business. We are simply just not buying that old chestnut.”

Plans to build Australia’s workforce, unveiled in last night’s Budget are a step in the right direction for private businesses.

The latest survey from Topfranchise reveals that Smartline Personal Mortgage Advisors are the number one Australian franchise among systems surveyed for the third year in a row. Now into its third year, topfranchise has surveyed over 3,000 franchisees (from over 80 systems) across Australia in the last three years.

The Government has listened to long-held concerns of tax professionals and reformed excess superannuation contribution tax traps that have tripped-up as many as 30,000 taxpayers each year, The Tax Institute said today.

From the latest smartphone to the new Apple iPad, it seems like not a day goes by without a new communication device hitting the market. There’s no denying that these technological innovations can make our lives easier, allowing us to become ever more efficient and enabling the exchange of information at lightning speed

Brett Morris of the The Fortune Group blogs about knowing when to cut the business umbilical chord.

“Throughout the many walks of our personal and professional lives, we’ve been conditioned to make people dependent on us. But once we get into management, it’s incumbent upon us to make our people independent of us.”

Jeremy Nichols of Chandler Macleod Consulting blogs about corporate culture and how the ‘old’ ways of doing things can often stunt your business growth.

“There’s tension from staff as the attitudes and mindsets have not shifted to match this new growth. They long for the ‘old’ way of doing things. However, the ‘old’ way will never allow them to achieve their growth aspirations.”

Julian Smith of MYOB blogs about Aussie SME businesses becoming the ‘forgotten’ majority.

“So for those in government, here is a little reminder on behalf of 96% of all businesses in Australia ― may we please have lower small business tax rate that is available to every businesses (not just the minority that have a company structure) and a simplified BAS system and increased access to business finance!”

More than 1,600 women turned out in force at 7am on Friday morning for a Business Chicks breakfast with national treasure Olivia Newton-John. In a relaxed interview on stage with Network 10 newsreader Natarsha Belling, the Grease star spoke about her career, her fight with breast cancer, wellness, her charity work and her new cookbook Liv-Wise.

Coffee giant Phillip di Bella is one of the speakers at a Brisbane event for young entrepreneurs in July.

Nine of the top 10 brands in the latest Top 100 Valuable Brands have a strong presence in Australia, elevating the importance of brand building tools.