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All in favor of improving meeting procedures, say Aye! Trying to
keep your in-person and virtual meetings on track and running
smoothly? You need Robert's Rules of Order! These rules for
conducting meetings have stood the test of time as the gold
standard for practical and effective procedure in group settings
like corporate and nonprofit boards, councils, and more. And
there's no better way to learn the latest version of the rules than
with Robert's Rules For Dummies. This handy guide demystifies the
Rules and offers readers a practical roadmap to applying efficient
procedures to everything from conducting online and in-person
meetings to voting by email. It also: Contains brand-new, updated
content on the latest 12th Edition of Robert's Rules Offers sample
meeting agendas, minutes, scripts, and other material to show you
how the pros keep meeting records Walks you through the basic--and
not so basic--ways to nominate and elect officers and directors in
organizations Ideal for board members, convention delegates,
business owners, nonprofit executives, and anyone else trying to
maintain an orderly flow of business--online or in person--Robert's
Rules For Dummies is a need-to-read resource that will make you
wonder how you ever survived without it.
An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the
basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics
for the general reader. Most of us feel at home in front of a
computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things
up online and check social media to see what our friends are doing.
But we may be a bit fuzzy about how any of this really works. In
Bits to Bitcoin, Mark Stuart Day offers an accessible guide to our
digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems,
networks, security, and related topics for the general reader. He
takes the reader from a single process to multiple processes that
interact with each other; he explores processes that fail and
processes that overcome failures; and he examines processes that
attack each other or defend themselves against attacks. Day tells
us that steps are digital but ramps are analog; that computation is
about "doing something with stuff" and that both the "stuff" and
the "doing" can be digital. He explains timesharing, deadlock, and
thrashing; virtual memory and virtual machines; packets and
networks; resources and servers; secret keys and public keys;
Moore's law and Thompson's hack. He describes how building in
redundancy guards against failure and how endpoints communicate
across the Internet. He explains why programs crash or have other
bugs, why they are attacked by viruses, and why those problems are
hard to fix. Finally, after examining secrets, trust, and cheating,
he explains the mechanisms that allow the Bitcoin system to record
money transfers accurately while fending off attacks.
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