This Would be Useful
Well, I’d find it handy. What I’d like my email client to do would be to automatically, when requested, recognise dates and times and add them to whatever calendar system I’m using. I’m always receiving emails with this sort of information. I know that there is a plugin thing for Outlook, but I use Thunderbird, and so far I have not found a system that can do this.
Such a system would save quite a bit of time for many people, I suspect.
Crystal Ball Gazing - Techno Travel
Recently I’ve been contacted by two emerging new travel sites - Volette.com and So Much World. Both are very interesting, but quite different in their takes on travel.
Volette is perhaps more aimed at the business traveller, but not only, whereas So Much World is more like an on-line version of my favourite Lonely Planet guides. I know that both sites are still in a development phase, especially Volette.com. Indeed, the brain behind Volette.com, one Joe Tangredi, has several ideas as to the direction he wants to take his internet venture, although I don’t know what they are just yet. Read more
A daft idea for the Italian Goverment
How about setting up a system which allows people to make advance IVA (VAT) and tax payments and grant those who do this a reduced rate of tax and/or use the interest generated on such advance payments to cover the some of the lost income resulting from the reduced tax rates?
It’s a mad idea, I know, but it might encourage more Italian businesses to actually pay taxes. And it may help businesses plan cashflow a little better too, I think.
You would need online access to your current tax and IVA position in real time too, as this would help you understand how much you can put aside for future tax/IVA liability. However, with the wonders of technology, setting this up should be a doddle.
A nutty idea? You tell me.
A Sneak Preview - Businessisin
This is a new site that I’m working on - Businessisin…Italy. The title is self explanatory, I feel.
Basically, I want to use this site to show off Italian businesses, not the well known ones, and business people, especially young Italians, as well as providing advice on how and where to do business in Italy, and to create some form of networking between businesses abroad and Italian businesses.
And to help others understand what is going on here, I’m going to be running a ‘Press Clippings’ section which will be very brief summaries of Italian business news stories from Italian sites and newspapers, the aim of which is to give non-Italian business people more of an insight into Italy, how it works, and the kind of opportunities it may present.
On the other hand Blog from Italy, where you are now, attempts in part, and in a small way, to show off the end product, whereas Businessisin will try to show off the businesses behind the products, in an attempt to generate more business, investment, profit, and, hopefully, employment.
The site is live, but I have not yet launched it, so to speak. And my ‘business writing style certainly needs more work. But I’d like a little feedback and if you have any suggestions, I’m all ears.
If you’d like to pop over there, then feel free. Very much work in progress, and my ideas are only just starting to take shape.
Once the hectic period I’m going through at the moment calms down a bit, I’ll be dedicating more time to the site.
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