Going NoWare: Abandoning traditional software for Web 2.0

No, this is not another blogpost on the wonders of Web 2.0. Actually, this is a blogpost that is wondering about Web 2.0. By definition Web 2.0 is "the generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, and blogs...which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among ...

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February 27, 2008

Dismissing doubts that derail you

Sometimes I wake up with nasty little doubts that prick my confidence and hamper my flow: What if the blog is a bad idea? What if I run out of topics? What if the blog doesn't get any traffic? Other times it's other people's doubts that knock me off course: "Do ...

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February 25, 2008

Business Card Gallery Showcase: Beyond the Template

Thanks to Microsoft's Design Gallery, VistaPrint, and others, there's no shortage of business card templates---quantity and variety aren't a problem. The problem is: there are only a handful of truly eye-catching business card designs among the hundreds of templates provided. Unfortunately, these gems will also appeal to other folks with good ...

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February 17, 2008

My Business Bookshelf

LibraryThing.com has a fun widget to display all my books I've tagged "biz". You won't see anything in your RSS feed though, so visit the site to check it out... What are you reading these days? Lemme know...

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February 15, 2008

Webware: Beyond the Essentials

I'm researching an article on web applications and have a list of great stuff for micro-business folks like us: Business essentials require email, word processing, spreadsheets, scheduling, and project management. For these, I use Gmail, Google Documents, Google Calendar, and Basecamp. My reasons are pretty straightforward: they're free, they're flexible, there's little ...

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February 13, 2008

No logo? Find one at the morgue…

"The first thing you do when you start an organization is get a logo." ~ Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State To be creditable as a business you absolutely, positively have to have a logo. Corporate giants are so enamored with logos they spend millions on the perfect ...

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February 12, 2008