Posts Tagged Business
Rugby Refereeing and Business
To paraphrase Ferris Bueller – “Life moves pretty fast on the rugby pitch”. No other sport has the equivalent number of players on the field with so few officials. In Rugby there is one official, always addressed as Sir or Ma’am, and 30 players playing for 2 40-minute halves. I recently took a rugby referee certification class which consisted [...]
It’s About the Business Not About the Technology
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology on 2009/09/02
Recently an informative and interesting technical event on virtualization provided confirmation for a truism about technology and business. First and foremost technology is only a means to an end - not an end in itself. Of course this observation isn’t limited to my technical colleagues because business people can become just as enamored with the “technology du jour” as [...]
New Technologies Create New Opportunities
Posted by Thom in Business, Social Media, Technology on 2009/08/29
It’s not very often that a new technology comes along and is immediately embraced and put to use by small businesses. The fax machine was one such technology and it was huge boon for small businesses. Now Twitter is the new technology that small business are embracing enthusiastically. Still, the first reaction whenever I mention Twitter is “I [...]
Taking Advantage of a Month of Rain
The school-yard chants can be heard all over New England, “Rain, Rain go away…”. Like many things in life you can’t control the weather and even though this isn’t the weather you’d choose to have – you can either gripe about or take advantage of it. I’ve chosen to do a bit of both. While a [...]
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