As you may or may not know, fall weather in New England can throw some curve balls and on Oct 28 we got 24 inches of heavy wet snow. While snow is usually not a problem when the leaves have not fallen — it was. We had no street power or internet for 171 hours. [...]
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How do you keep your kids safe online? Here are some links to sites with all of the most important information: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/internetsafetychild.html http://www.filecluster.com/Security/Access-Control/Download-Internet-Access-Controller.html http://www.softforyou.com/ http://open-tube.com/10-best-parental-control-software-that-lets-you-have-peace-of-mind-when-your-child-is-on-the-internet/ http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-internet-access-control-and-internet-filtering-with-safesquid http://www.pctattletale.com/parental-control-software.htm http://www.packetfence.org/home.html http://pc-time-limit.qarchive.org/ If you’re interested in having me evaluate some of the products or to put together some do-it-yourself videos, please leave a comment on this message. Related [...]
Tags: Child Safety·Content Filters·Content-control software·Parental Control·Security·Shareware·TalkTalk·Windows (Microsoft)
Although it’s been hung up in the courts, there appears to be some forward momentum towards Google finishing its project to digitize all the world’s libraries. The project hit a halt in 2005 when publishers, authors and others disagreed over Google’s policies regarding abandoned, copyrighted works. The judge in the case supports Google’s efforts to [...]
Tags: Authors Guild·Google·Google Books·HathiTrust·Orphan works·Search Engines·Searching·settlement
Invoicing to a client is a century old story and it’s still existing. Now, technology enables company from physical book of record to online book keeping. There are a lot of accounting software available to do this work. You might be using it daily for book keeping purposes. But, you feel it is boring and [...]
Tags: digital invoices·online billing for clients·painless invoices·quick invoicing·simple invoicing
Market intelligence firm IDC predicts that while worldwide IT spending will grow by 6.6% in 2007, small to medium-sized business (SMB) IT spending will grow by 8.4% In this same time period, SMBs will represent between 50% and 70% of the potential market for IT vendors. IDC also sees an upward trend in 2007 towards [...]
Tags: SaaS platform for small business owners·building ecommerce stores·building websites·making business profile·marketing on internet·online advertising·online marketing·pay-per-click advertising·search engine marketing·search engine optimization·search engine submissions·small business solution·software for small business entrepreneurs·yellow pages
It’s vacation time. The kids are out of school, and every one has summer on the brain. How does one Small Biz Owner counteract low-energy and productivity? Sherean will offer insights, tips, tools and specific examples. Sherean Malekzadeh Allen, internationally recognized advertising, sales and marketing expert, is Founder and President of New Thought Marketing, Inc. [...]
Tags: CRM·email marketing·flexible working·productivity tools for small businesses·project management·work-life balance
How can you do more in this Summer? People take off during summer time and how can you increase productivity of yours and also your staff. Here is a small piece of information shared by Andrew S. Field. Andrew is the President and CEO of Printing for less.com. He feels as a small business owners [...]
Tags: business card design and printing services·mail order services·marketing material designs·online printing services
AT&T Remote Monitor service helps small business owners stay in touch with their business operations without having to be onsite. It enables users to remotely monitor (real time video, not audio) their office or business(es) for changes in water or temperature levels, movement, and control of lighting. The services’ small business applications will especially appeal [...]
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