Technology Trends

 

Help for The Accidental Project Manager

This week’s company profile is about AEC Software. Several years back a book came out called The Accidental Project Manager. It is a survival guide of sorts, for techies who are suddenly thrown into the role of project managers. That book was not specifically targeted toward small businesses…

 

 

A Custom Search Engine for Your Site in Five Minutes

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…

Search Marketing Growing in Importance

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…

Ten Ways Business.gov Helps Your Business

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…

Distribute Business Documents at Scribd

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…

Introducing New Talking SitePal Character

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…

HP — Taking the Geek out of Computers

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…

Top Tech Products for Your Business

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…

An Absorbing Look at Blogging History – Blawg Review

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…

Google vs Microsoft — It Is Not That Easy

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…

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