Posts Tagged Technology
5 Social Media Rules for Entrepreneurs
Posted by Thom in Business, Social Media, Technology on 2009/12/01
Few things are more pathetic than looking at the abandoned twitter stream of a business. They start off robust and full of hope before dwindling to a few short screeds touting some sale before finally growing stale and stopping cold. Does this sound familiar? Don’t let this happen to you or your business. Here are my five social media rules [...]
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 [...]
Using Obsolete Skills Can Be Fun
Posted by Thom in Business, IT, Technology on 2009/08/24
No matter how hard you work to acquire them, some skills eventually become obsolete. But even obsolete skills get dusted off occasionally. And it’s interesting when those formerly needed skills, that you haven’t used on a daily basis, suddenly become useful at the oddest times and in the oddest places. Formerly as a network administrator I had to pull [...]
Technologies change but what remains
Posted by Thom in Technology on 2009/04/11
Recently while cooking dinner for the family, my 3-year-old daughter walked into the kitchen with her toy phone tucked between head and shoulder carrying on a conversation, with whom I don’t know because she said in a perfect tone “I can’t talk now, I’ve gotta go” complete with eye-roll. She could’ve have been 17 for all the attitude [...]
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