Does your company have a technology plan? It shouldn't. Technology should be deep in the fiber of every business plan, product and program. Some reasons why this matters and tips on getting it to happen.
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Tiny devices, big fingers, long nails. They spell T-Y-P-O. Some are silly, some are downright embarrassing. Here are a few tips for handling mobile messaging professionally.
Social media can be a great tool or a sinkhole sucking up your team's time and energy. What takes it from waste of time to useful is analytics and understanding how to use them.
Maintaining two separate and distinct Facebook personalities can be difficult, and sometimes impossible. As a business person or owner, you may have to give up some personal posting freedoms in order to protect your business identity.
Technology is doing its part to make telework possible and yet a lot of jobs that can be done remotely are not. With secure virtual private networking, cloud-based services and server hosting that makes company data available anywhere, virtualized phone systems, accessible video conferencing and free conference calling and now the explosion of mobile technology, what will it take to move the needle? Some ideas that blend the human and the technical.
Smart phones and tablets are the way more and more users view our websites. If your site isn't friendly to mobile viewers, your website could be hurting your business. In comes responsive design - fluid grids and smart designs that detect your device and deliver up the appropriately displayed content.
Most of us learn everything by failing and then making sure we don't do it again. Businesses often make the same mistakes over and over where technology is concerned. Here are five from my experience that wont cost you anything to avoid and could save you money.