Archive for the ‘Technology General’ Category

Become an online newspaper editor

Turns out I am not a bad newspaper editor/publisher. I wish I could take more credit for its creation, however.  The simple tools at paper.li have made it so within a couple minutes any user that is active in the social media community will have their own “virtual” newspaper created.  At first, I was a [...]

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Recovery Time Objective

Do you know what this means? As an IT person, you should learn it.  As a business manager, you should be aware of it.  As a business owner, you should know it like the back of your hand. Basically, it’s a goal on how much time your business can tolerate before your business processes or [...]

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The business “Technology Personality” Quiz

Ever wonder what the state of technology is at your business but don’t know where to start? Is your technology increasing revenues or lending to an increase in productivity of your staff? Can you sleep at night knowing your critical data is backed up 100% without a doubt? Sometimes assessing the state of your business [...]

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Mobile is the killer app

A couple weeks ago I attended Future Midwest 2011 – what a great event.  It has some of the best attendees, speakers, and sponsors that I have seen.  It excites and inspires as it showcases the creativity, innovation and energy of startups and new ideas in the Detroit area. One thing I noticed while at [...]

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Life and malware

In light of the recent real world events that have happened over the past 24 hours keep in mind that spam and malware writers rely on compelling content or happenings to draw attention to their malevolent creations. Some insight from Symantec and Sophos (courtesy of mashable): “Within 24 hours we can expect in excess of [...]

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Collaborate online for free

I love free. Ever find yourself in need of quickly collaborating on some work with a peer and didn’t have a solution to do so?  A few weeks ago I ran across join.me, which is a free desktop sharing utility created by LogMeIn. I have used it with a few clients and have been very [...]

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Another day, another email breach

If you are like most of us, chances are your email address and name just made it to the seedy undercurrents of the Internet this week.  Epsilon, an email clearing house and large contact management firm that handles email communications for large corporations such as TiVo and Verizon had a data breach where millions of [...]

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Setup a meeting on the first try

I recently stumbled on this great website that synchronizes your Outlook calendar with their website, thus allowing people to instantly see your availability and coordinate meetings at times that work for you. Tungle.me is a free service that keeps an online snapshot of your calendar.  As an example of how I use Tungle, I basically [...]

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