MS Online Services

Author: Toon Six
I am looking into setting up client portals within a MS Office Live Small Business website. Contact management, document management, team project management is all possible but, can this be done for each client seperately in a client portal? If a vendor out there has software for doing this, I definitely would consider [...]

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Effective Dashboards

Author:  Joan Muschamp
As we struggle with information overload, dashboards are becoming more and more essential to decision making, and not only at the executive level. But, as with traditional technology “deployments” dashboards are too often built without the end result in mind. They get loaded up with whiz-bang features and graphical representations that grab attention [...]

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Sales Compensation Plans-2010

Author: Ken Thorenson
Sales Compensation Planning for 2010   Now??
It takes time to get it right. As sales leaders or executives everyone must be focused on exceeding the end of year sales quota’s and budgets-but alas- it is mid-September and October will be quickly on top of you.  Over the next few weeks I will be discussing [...]

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SharePoint 2010 will Require Careful Planning

Author:Akil Franklin
SharePoint 2010 is packed with exciting new features. Content authors, administrators, and developers can all expect an improved experience. But the upgrade is not without its perils. We’ll cover the benefits first, then dive into some of the gotchas.

Content Authoring Improvements

Improved WYSIWYG [...]

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How Long Will I be Able to Use Vista?

Author: Jim G.
I finally replaced my and my wife’s slow Dell laptops that actually came with Windows Millenium Edition, but that I had of course been using XP on, with new notebooks with Vista Ultimate, that, if it weren’t for counting the hard drive speed, are as fast as my Windows 2003 servers.  After disabling [...]

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Influencers vs. Fans: Where’s the ROI?

Author: Jeremy Epstein
Conventional wisdom about how to “get the word out” about your products is focused on finding and relating to the “influencers.” If you do this, so we’re told, you will get the “big hit” from a mention in a powerful blog or mainstream media publication and that will drive traffic to your website, [...]

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Microsoft to Stop VB6 Support?

Author: George Porzuc
Ok folks -
I have heard that MS is getting ready to stop support for VB6 is this correct? I have a product that uses VB6 as the base and need to know if we need to do a rewrite to .NET – already have some issues with COM+ not working any longer… and [...]

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