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We’re Using Social Media

A few months back I starting using Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Fan pages, Facebook groups and LinkedIN.  Recently I added Posterous and SocialOOMPH to help me manage our social media and now it’s is sucking less time from my day and actually starting to add bring in client leads. It’s working […]

Buy a Safe Phone

The environmental working group is out with a very large study on which phones emit how much radiation. While somewhat controversial on whether or not the radiation emitted will cause you any harm, I don’t think that there can be any argument that less radiation is better than more. As […]

Office 2010 Technical Preview

We’re engaged in the technical preview of Office 2010. It’s obviously scheduled for release sometime next year. This technical preview is a little different for us, in that it’s not NDA. It has been released to only a few people but we’re allowed to talk about it. It’s a nice […]

Add Video Content to Your Website, not YouTube

This morning Warrillow has a very interesting post about video. Market research shows that business customers trust the video on your website more than video on YouTube. In fact, they’ll watch it 21% more often. Fortunately posting video to your website isn’t difficult. In fact, YouTube makes it easy by […]

Understanding Social Networking

I’m thinking about doing a short webinar on social networking. From talking to people that have attended a conference session, chamber of commerce event or webinar on this topic I’m hearing that the audience left confused or unclear about why they should care about social networking for their business. I […]

Palm Pre

While doing my morning reading, I came across this from a fellow geek blogger. The Palm Pre implementation for Exchange ActiveSync mail is completely unsuited for enterprise companies. There is no support for remote wipe, enforcing password policies,etc. In fact, if you currently force the acceptance of these policies, you […]

Small Business Servers get a mention in USA Today

Nice to see SBS catch a little fame. So many small business overlook it either because they have never heard of it or they don’t realize that it is jammed packed with many more features than standard server. http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/abrams/2009-06-26-servers-for-small-business_N.htm At some point, sharing all this information — let’s use the […]

Bing: The new search engine in town

Like they did in the browser arena (remember Netscape?) Microsoft has found itself playing catch up again. This time it’s in search engine. Fortunately for Microsoft they are good at this game. The new search engine is called Bing. (www.bing.com) So what’s different about Bing? At the bottom of the […]