
A short while ago I discovered an interesting insurance blog, with just the kind of thought-provoking articles I find helpful. But it had no site search. I wanted to explore all the archives, but right then I did not have time to scroll through each month’s archives for the past year.
A few…

This month’s edition of Internet Retailer magazine features a survey that shows just how important search engine marketing has become. The reason? It’s all about sales.
Over 30% of online retailers surveyed said search marketing brings in more than 50% of their online sales. For virtual…

The U.S. Federal government websites keep improving, bringing government closer to the people.
My latest favorite government website is the new and improved Business.gov.
This recently revamped site is managed by the Small Business Administration. Not long ago I spent a number of hours exploring…

Have you heard about Scribd? Scribd has been described as the YouTube and Digg of documents.
OK, if you don’t know what YouTube or Digg are, I guess that description won’t help you much. So here’s a more specific description:
Scribd is a place where you can load online any written…

I am excited to introduce my new talking character, courtesy of SitePal. If you look over at the upper left side of this site on most pages you will see the new talking character. The character actually is me, custom made from my photograph. If you click on the player, you will hear a personal…

Yesterday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hewlett Packard (HP) put on an event called The Art of Small Business. The purpose was to announce several new products and partnerships for the small business market.
I attended the event and as you probably could guess from the name, the theme…

Shopping for technology products is unnecessarily confusing for many small businesses, for three reasons:
(1) There’s a lot of technology available in the marketplace. It does not always fall neatly into apples-to-apples categories, either, especially now when we are undergoing rapid…

Have you ever wondered how long the blogs you read will still be around? And what about the bloggers who write them — will they still be committed to their blogs or will their interests cause them to move on?
The weekly roundup of law blog posts known as the Blawg Review gives us an…

As soon as Google made the announcement about its enhanced Google Apps offering, the phrase “Microsoft Office killer” started being bandied about.
However, I think the rumors of Microsoft Office’s demise at the hands of Google are greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark…