If your business employs more than a few people, it's a good bet you've got project-management problems.
For example, you may have 50 email threads all related to the same project, attachments flying around all over the place, different document versions residing with different people, and so on.
That's why shared-workspace solutions like Microsoft's SharePoint are so popular. They put documents, collaboration, and communication under a single, private umbrella.
I can't tell you how many small-business owners I know who know nothing about online marketing. And that's to their detriment.
See, even the smallest enterprise can benefit from leveraging blogs, social networks, and other online tools. Too bad there's no instruction manual aimed at teaching owners the basics of online marketing.
Actually, there are plenty of them -- and if you own a Kindle, a device that can run a Kindle app, or even just a PC, you can get one for free.
Evernote has long been a popular tool for business users, offering easy capture and management of notes, ideas, documents, and the like.
Now, Evernote is getting its business bona fides: The company just announced the aptly named Evernote Business.
Designed for small and mid-size companies, the new service promises the same free and Premium features as Evernote proper, plus a wealth of extra goodies catering to admins and owners. Among the highlights:
So your company just snapped up your aging BlackBerry and handed you an Android phone. Or you got fed up with Apple (it happens) and decided to switch platforms.
Whatever the case, if you're new to Android -- specifically Android 4.0 -- you may find yourself battling a learning curve that's interfering with your productivity.
Thankfully, there's fast and effective help to be found in the form of the Android 4.0 cheat sheet.
As an influential tech blogger (or "legend in my own mind"), I'm constantly receiving pitches from product developers, PR people, and Kickstarter hopefuls.
Actually, all of these folks are hopeful: They want me to check out their new app or gizmo or service and, hopefully, write about it.
Which I'm glad to do. That's more or less why I'm here. However, if you're one of those people looking to curry favor with us media types, I've got some bad news: You're doing it wrong. You're making stupid mistakes that not only make you look bad, but also kill your chances of landing our e-ink.
In recent years, a handful of developers have attempted to add note-taking capabilities to Gmail, the idea being to let you attach custom, personalized information to any given message.
For example, suppose you get a sales inquiry from a potential customer. You could attach a note with details on when you replied, what you said, how you plan to follow up, and so on.
Likewise, if the boss emails you about an important project, you could embed related information inside that email rather than keeping it someplace separate. Heck, maybe you just need to remind yourself who the sender is, like if it's someone you met at a conference. The possibilities are fairly endless.
