Posted on September 21, 2009 by Nick
I’ve wanted to write about buying technology for some time now. It’s a world that’s changing pretty fast – faster than most journalists like me can effectively communicate to the business community at large. The problem is that, ten years ago, five even, the majority of the IT-driven work in a small business happened on [...]
Filed under: finance, technology, tips | Tagged: business, buying IT, dashboard, data repository, data storage, desktop, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, IT, IT sales, knowledge management, KPI, Microsoft, partner, PC, procurement, run a business, server, SharePoint, start a business, technology | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 27, 2009 by Nick
When I sat down with the nice people at Microsoft, well over a year ago, to discuss their supporting this blog; they made only one stipulation. They didn’t want me to relentlessly plug their products. I didn’t have to exclusively write about technology, either. All I had to do was be honest about the reality [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, facilities, Microsoft, office, office space, recession, run a business, start a business | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 8, 2008 by Nick
I wanted to share with you this piece of excellent PR work (which I found on the excellent Robert Scoble’s technology blog). Declaration of interest: This blog is sponsored by Microsoft Let me give you the story first, and then I’ll tell you why I think it’s a piece of genius. Microsoft has produced a [...]
Filed under: current affairs, marketing, technology | Tagged: business, business skills, marketing, media, Microsoft, mojave experiment, negative publicity, PR, product launch, robert scoble, scobleizer, start your own business, vista, Windows, windows vista | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 24, 2008 by Nick
Astute readers will have noticed that this blog is kindly supported by the Microsoft Small Business Centre. It’s not often that Microsoft founder Bill Gates accepts the limelight anywhere, let alone here in the UK, so given his in-depth interview on BBC2 last week (for The Money Programme), I thought it would be useful to [...]
Filed under: sales, technology | Tagged: bill gates, business, entrepreneurship, manufacturing, Microsoft, succession, technology, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 17, 2008 by Nick
Time for another dip into the world of helpful- and sometimes rather suspicious- web applications. As it happens, I’m in the middle of re-writing the content for my website. Actually, I’ve been re-writing the content for my website for the past six months. It’s one of those jobs I never seem to get round to- [...]
Filed under: technology, tips | Tagged: better website, business, business website, demofuse, feedtwister, formspring, jotform, Microsoft, office live, run a business, site builder, site tools, start a business, web applications, web design, web site, website, wix | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 14, 2008 by Nick
Today, I took delivery of a spanking shiny new HTC TyTN II phone. Whilst everyone is raving about the Apple iPhone, I think this knocks the spots off anything else. The iPhone may look nice, but so does Paris Hilton – to a certain type of gentleman in a certain light – and would she [...]
Filed under: mobile, technology | Tagged: Blackberry, HSDPA, HTC, Microsoft, mobile, mobile phone, Orange, Outlook, phone, sync, TyTN, Windows | Leave a Comment »
