Archive for August, 2009

Email comes in 2 flavors: POP and IMAP.
Post Office Protocal (POP), which is less efficient, has its place.  If you are the only one working on your computer, if you do not need to share your work and communications, if you have limited storage space on your email server, and/or you have a slow Internet [...]

Not since moveable type was popularized, leading to the Renaissance and eventually the Industrial Revolution, have we had such a vast global communication connection as has been brought by Web 2.0 and beyond (social connecting, social media and social networking and interaction).  The 1960’s slogan, “think globally, act locally” is coming to fruition with instantaneous [...]

Opening a social network pipeline for your business is essential these days.  As with the early web days, it is not just enough to join the popular socnet (social network) groups and wait.  Consistent participation and, as always, effective, efficient and regular marketing are keys to successful online networking for business.
Your profile
Before joining any social [...]

Often I visit web sites that seem to be out of date.  I have a friend who is downsizing her business location, so I took a quick look at the site to see if it reflected the new status.  It did now, which is excellent. As the old saying goes, “on the Internet, no one [...]

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates* weren’t the beginning of the “start your business in your garage” movement.  In 1938, those fun guys, Dave Packard and William Hewlett, joined forces in a small house in what is now Silicon Valley, using the garage for the office.  HP was born.
What does an entrepreneur do when the garage [...]

What do you use to take online payments?  This is a question asked by our clients a lot.
Foregoing the discussions of planning (why, who, for what purpose, the cost and ROI, how to implement, when to upgrade, and most importantly, will your purchaser be comfortable with the system you select), I thought it might be [...]