Google Wave: Schools and Businesses to Get an Early Look

This past Sunday, my firm threw the switch to go live on Google Apps Premier for all enterprise email, instant messaging and other technology needs.  We have been a user and big fan of Lotus Notes for more than a decade.  We made the conversion for many reasons, some of which I will explore in [...]

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Team Apart Makes the Virtual Meeting Social

Interesting article.  Potentially a very nice tool.
There is a lot of software out there for conducting virtual conferences and performing demos: GoToMeeting, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, WebEx, and AdobeAcrobat Connect immediately come to mind. Most of these programs though require software to be installed and are meant for conference meetings rather than team collaboration. They’re [...]

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Is IT working for you?

To me IT (Information Technology) is the most valuable enabler besides people. My dependency on IT is forever expanding as pressure to perform mounts.

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Forbes – How To Value Your Networks

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Last week Bill Gates told a business forum in New Delhi why he quit Facebook: He was overwhelmed by the number of friend requests coming his way.
That’s a perfect example of the economics behind ICANN Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom’s model for how to value a network. In a keynote speech Friday at Defcon, [...]

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Forbes – Twenty-One Top Twitter Tips

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You’ve heard about Twitter–that curious, strangely addictive social-networking technology that facilitates torrents of truncated messages among millions of users. You might even know your hashtags from your re-tweets. But how can you make money with it?
Forbes canvassed scads of businesses and pricey social-networking gurus looking for honest answers. Admittedly, we were skeptical. After [...]

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Web site or website? Tweeting or twittering? How do I use these words?

The world is changing and so is our language.  New words are being created, especially in the area of technology. We aren’t in school anymore, so it can be challenging to figure out how to use new words correctly.  Following are the proper uses of some technology terms according to the AP Stylebook, the handbook used by most [...]

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Google Profiles

A Google profile is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows you to control how you appear on Google and tell others a bit more about who you are. With a Google profile, you can easily share your web content on one central location. You can include, for [...]

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Official WordPress For BlackBerry App Now In Public Beta

Here is a nice tool for mobile web authors. It combines the best of WordPress with best of Blackberry.   Just as one trivial example, this article was found, edited, illustrated and posted from my BlackBerry, with a few clicks in a few minutes.

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Facebook cleans up its privacy controls

The social network will be transitioning users to the new settings soon through the use of an opt-in tool, as it works toward making more profile content public. It’s also doing away with regional networks, as expected.
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Windows 7: Moving beyond Vista

Microsoft aims to make a much different first impression with Windows 7 than it did with Vista, its oft-maligned predecessor.
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