The beginning of the year is a good time to protect all your important business data before something changes and you lose it. Here are five places you’ve probably forgotten to look to backup that data. 1. Save PDF versions of year-end accounting reports Accounting systems change, and data can be lost. In over 20 […]
Archives for January 2013
Filtering Twitter: Going from mostly noise to all conversation
Twitter, to me, is for conversation. I’m tired of all the automatic tweets, the broadcast announcements, and the cross-posts from Facebook. I live and work in a small town, and I love using Twitter as something like an office water cooler: a convenient place for a quick talk with friends. It gives me a breadth […]
Brag Basket crosses boundaries
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Jan 11-13, 2013. What good news will you add to the brag basket? The Brag Basket crosses the usual boundaries.No matter where you’re from, you’re welcome here.Photo (CC) by owenfinn16 Don’t hold back because of that […]
Why and How Small Businesses Should be Blogging
Why should small businesses be blogging? How can they get started? Those are the two big questions for #blogchat this Sunday night. What is #blogchat? Here’s Mack Collier leading a live, in-person version of#blogchat. This Sunday, I’ll join him for the onlineversion, focusing on small business blogging. It’s a chat held on Twitter. It’s a […]