Low-Cost Management Tips
Here are several excerpts from an interesting article by Andrew Boyd, Chief Research Officer for the Aberdeen Group, 3 Low-Cost or No-Cost Customer Management...

Date: 2008-12-30

Make better use of your time with a Pitney Bowes Postage Meter
As a small business owner, you've got a lot to do. Why spend valuable time running to the Post Office™ to buy stamps? With the mailstation 2™ digital mailing system in your office, you can cross off dealing with mail from your list. And no more trips to the Post Office™ means more time for you to spend on important things, like growing your business.?

Date: 2008-12-18

Fixing The Trust Issues With Corporate Blogs
These days, corporate blogging is a great way to connect with your customers and participate in discussions about your products online, but do consumers trust them?

Date: 2008-12-15

What To Do With A Corporate Blog When The Blogger Leaves?
One of the most powerful aspects of social media is the ability for the people inside your company to connect with the people outside your company.

Date: 2008-12-02

Qualities Of A Social Media Manager
The relationship economy posted a great article pointing out that in the last three years social media jobs have grown some 325%.

Date: 2008-11-17

Increased Workloads Can Lead to Worker Unsatisfaction
As companies continue to cut staff, you have to give the work to someone, which could lead to worker burn out. This can also lead to a lot of worker unsatisfaction, which can lead to more attrition than the company initially expected or wanted.

Date: 2008-11-03

Promote Change Within an Organization
Change Management provides the process to manage the impact that change has on the people in an organization. It is concerned with the human resource and organizational aspects of change.

Date: 2008-10-27

Trends in the Business Operations Platform
The folks from Cordys presented their view of the new business operations platform. Current systems development is in the context of four key game-changing trends.

Date: 2008-10-13

Convincing Your Company to Use Social Media
Gary Koelling is a blogger, Twitterati, public speaker and a social media pathfinder. He's also Senior Manager, Social Technology at Best Buy.

Date: 2008-10-06

Today's customers demand payment options
First Data Independent Sales (FDIS) has the processing options that let you accept more forms of electronic payment without complicated additional paperwork.

Date: 2008-10-02

Responding to Online Criticism
It's interesting how issues seem to come at you in waves. Some are like rolling thunder beginning as far back as you can see from the shore.

Date: 2008-10-01

Access Your PC from Anywhere
Here's how it works: You simply log on to GoToMyPC and your office desktop instantly appears on that computer. It's so easy! You have full access to all your files, programs, email and network.

Date: 2008-09-25

Collaborate Easily with Dropbox
I'm a big fan of Live Mesh, the service from Microsoft that is a great productivity tool when working with colleagues and clients in different locations, where you can synchronize different devices used by different people to share files.

Date: 2008-09-15

Convince Your Sales Force to Use SFA
Here are several excerpts from an article by Rick Cook, Convincing Your Sales Force to Use SFA.

Date: 2008-09-02

Have You Become A Slave To Technology?
I was talking to Andrea Yager earlier about the value of Twitter to marketers and whether it was "life changing".

Date: 2008-08-12

Social Media Disclosure Best Practices
I think it's generally accepted by many social media folks that one characteristic of social media is transparency and disclosure, well maybe that's two characteristics but they almost mean the same thing.

Date: 2008-07-28

Entrepreneur Guide To Startup Hiring
I recently came across an article in Entrepreneur magazine that talks about startup hiring mistakes. I don't know Brad Sugars (the author), but he's a columnist at Entrepreneur magazine and has written 14 books. Though I'm impressed by the fact that he's a published author, I disagree with several points from the article.

Date: 2008-07-14

Access Your PC from Anywhere
GoToMyPC is the award-winning service that lets you use your office PC from any other computer with an Internet connection - as if you were sitting at your desk!

Date: 2008-07-10

How To Manage Cost And Schedule Performance
To monitor and control the costs, schedule and technical performance of the project team. Method Identify and document the project-specific standards and procedures for such things as status reporting, time reporting, and project tracking.

Date: 2008-06-30

Interesting Qualities Of A Community Manager
I mentioned in Part 1 that community managers require a broad range of experience and wear a lot of hats in the course of their jobs. To me this is what makes the job so interesting. We must draw upon everything we've ever leaned both personally and professionally - and we're always learning things that we put into practice. There is no "status quo."

Date: 2008-06-16

Community Manager's Evolving Role
Community managers like hats. And that's a good thing - because they wear several. It's hard to list everything a community manager does because that list varies from company to company and Web site to Web site. It's also a moving target.

Date: 2008-05-29

Convincing Busy People Corporate Blogging Is Worth It
I joined Cadence Design Systems a little over a month ago as the company's social media/Web community manager. My first mission: recruit, train (and then, on a weekly basis, cajole) a small army of expert bloggers from within the company's ranks of engineers and product managers.

Date: 2008-05-13

Eliminate Performance Review Hassles
Now there's a faster, easier, and far more effective way for small and mid-sized businesses to tackle employee reviews. Find out how an automated solution will have you kicking back and cooling your heels at review time.

Date: 2008-04-24

The Future Managers Of Enterprise 2.0
Phew!! Finally! Last week I got the chance, at last, to go through and digest, quite intensively, one of the best reads I have gone through in months around the subject of Social Computing within the Enterprise.

Date: 2008-04-17

Job Requirements Are Out Of Control
The flip side to the "Please do not Lie on your Resume" article is the "Out of control job requirements" that some people put up on sites like Dice, Monster, or on their own sites. This job description for an SDET is fresh from Dice...

Date: 2008-03-31

The Good And The Bad Of Hiring SEOs
As a growing mid-sized online marketing agency, TopRank has had opportunities to interview well over a 100 people for various search engine optimization and internet marketing positions. We've been fortunate to hire and develop an amazing team of professionals. We've also experienced the flip side.

Date: 2008-03-10

Simple Business Postage Solutions
Enjoy the ease of the new and improved mailstation 2™ system. You will have access to postage 24/7 and you can conveniently refill online or through the phone. No more time wasted going to and from the Post Office™. Now you can save time for what’s important, growing your business!

Date: 2008-03-06

Access Your PC from Anywhere
Here's how it works: You simply log on to GoToMyPC and your office desktop instantly appears on that computer. It's so easy! You have full access to all your files, programs, email and network.

Date: 2008-02-28

Press Release Definition
Richard McManus recounts an email exchange with Business Wire in which the news distribution service said companies and marketers can use Business Wire to bypass journalists and bloggers to get into key news sources like Techmeme and search engine results.

Date: 2008-02-19

Access Your PC from Anywhere
Here's the problem: Your important files are on your office computer but you need to work while you're at home or traveling.

Date: 2008-02-05

Nearly Everything Is Getting Cheaper Except Marketing
Open source content management solutions like Drupal get more powerful each day. But everyone has access to it. Firefox has extensions like Firebug that allow you to test modifying page layout or CSS in real time.

Date: 2008-01-28

Technology Use In Small Business
Tech 'Solutions' Your Small Biz Can't Use... A lot of highfalutin software and gadgets aim to help you run your company, but too little of it is suited for a small business environment - Gene Marks Business Week. Recently, Business Week offered up a reason to be concerned.

Date: 2008-01-14