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== WikiAnswers ==
== WikiAnswers ==
Answers Corporation also owns [[WikiAnswers]], a Q&A site that uses a wiki engine to improve questions and answers. It is the second-largest Q&A site after [[Yahoo! Answers]].{{Fact|date=October 2007}} Answers has stated that it intends to bring the two sites much closer together in order to provide various types of answers to its visitors -- both encyclopedic and "community-based".
Answers Corporation also owns [[WikiAnswers]], a Q&A site that uses a wiki engine to improve questions and answers. It is the second-largest Q&A site after [[Yahoo! Answers]].{{Fact|date=October 2007}} Answers has stated that it intends to bring the two sites much closer together in order to provide various types of answers to its visitors -- both encyclopedic and "community-based".







There ya go Keysey! and NOT PETER!

Page 264 Activities

7.1 State four reasons why a business meeting may be held.
1. To discuss business
2. Exchanging information
3. Negotiating
4. Making Decisions

7.1 List the elements of a successful meeting.
• Avoiding diversions, the purpose and objective should be clear.
• It should be well organised
• All attendees must fully participate in the process
• Leadership
• Participants should be well prepared with information regarding what the meeting is about.

7.2 List and briefly describe the main types of meetings.
1. Informal Meetings
Often internal with little to no rules

2. Semi-formal Meetings
Conducted with clients and heads of divisions, are more structured than informal meetings.

3. Formal Meetings
Follow strict defined procedures.

7.3 Outline the purpose of annual general meetings. Differentiate between these and other types of meetings.
An annual general meeting is a meeting that official bodies, and associations involving the public (including companies with shareholders), are often required by law to hold.

7.4 What is the purpose of a board meeting?
To carefully observe and check that the company are making the right moves and actions that will benefit the company.

7.5 Discuss the role of shareholders at AGMs
The role for the individual shareholder is how to know what message is appropriate and how to get it across.

7.6 Are private companies required to hold AGMs? Why/why not?
The 2006 Companies Act no longer requires a private company to hold an AGM unless its articles expressly provide that an AGM must be held.

7.7 Describe an extraordinary meeting. Under what circumstances would this type of meeting be held?
Extraordinary meetings are informal meetings which are called when there are matters of significance.

7.8 Read the article ‘Boards can be called to account’ on page 263 and answer the following questions:
a) What do annual reports include?
Financial statements showing how the company has performed over a period.

b)

c) Explain the term fiduciary
A person who has assumed a special relationship to another person or another person's property, such as a trustee, administrator, executor etc.


==Staff==
==Staff==

Revision as of 04:42, 20 May 2008

Answers Corp
File:Answers.gif
File:Answers.com-screenshot.png
Screenshot of answers.com homepage
Type of businessPublic
Type of site
Reference content
Available inEnglish, French
FoundedJanuary 2005
HeadquartersIsrael Jerusalem, Israel
United States Wesley Hills, New York, United States
Key peopleBob Rosenschein
Revenue$9.30M
Employees53
URLwww.answers.com
Advertisingvideo
Registration?
LaunchedJanuary 2005
Current statusactive

Answers.com is a website that presents reference content in over four million entries, collected from multiple sources. Launched in January 2005, the website is the primary product of the Answers Corporation (Nasdaq: ANSW) (previously GuruNet), an Israel-based Internet reference company with offices in New York City and Jerusalem and founded by Bob Rosenschein in 1999.[1]

WikiAnswers

Answers Corporation also owns WikiAnswers, a Q&A site that uses a wiki engine to improve questions and answers. It is the second-largest Q&A site after Yahoo! Answers.[citation needed] Answers has stated that it intends to bring the two sites much closer together in order to provide various types of answers to its visitors -- both encyclopedic and "community-based".




There ya go Keysey! and NOT PETER!

Page 264 Activities

7.1 State four reasons why a business meeting may be held. 1. To discuss business 2. Exchanging information 3. Negotiating 4. Making Decisions

7.1 List the elements of a successful meeting. • Avoiding diversions, the purpose and objective should be clear. • It should be well organised • All attendees must fully participate in the process • Leadership • Participants should be well prepared with information regarding what the meeting is about.

7.2 List and briefly describe the main types of meetings. 1. Informal Meetings Often internal with little to no rules

2. Semi-formal Meetings Conducted with clients and heads of divisions, are more structured than informal meetings.

3. Formal Meetings Follow strict defined procedures.

7.3 Outline the purpose of annual general meetings. Differentiate between these and other types of meetings. An annual general meeting is a meeting that official bodies, and associations involving the public (including companies with shareholders), are often required by law to hold.

7.4 What is the purpose of a board meeting? To carefully observe and check that the company are making the right moves and actions that will benefit the company.

7.5 Discuss the role of shareholders at AGMs The role for the individual shareholder is how to know what message is appropriate and how to get it across.

7.6 Are private companies required to hold AGMs? Why/why not? The 2006 Companies Act no longer requires a private company to hold an AGM unless its articles expressly provide that an AGM must be held.

7.7 Describe an extraordinary meeting. Under what circumstances would this type of meeting be held? Extraordinary meetings are informal meetings which are called when there are matters of significance.

7.8 Read the article ‘Boards can be called to account’ on page 263 and answer the following questions: a) What do annual reports include? Financial statements showing how the company has performed over a period.

b)

c) Explain the term fiduciary A person who has assumed a special relationship to another person or another person's property, such as a trustee, administrator, executor etc.

Staff

  • Robert S Rosenschein, chairman of the board, president, chief executive officer
  • Steven Steinberg, chief financial officer, secretary
  • Bruce D Smith, chief strategic officer
  • Jeff Schneiderman, chief technical officer

References

  1. ^ answers.com Company Overview

See also

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