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YouTube, Baby Delivery & How It Can Benefit Your Business!

May 5, 2009 — 3:24 pm

I’ve recently been away for a few days and hadn’t connected to the internet so wasn’t aware of the news story of the dad who had used YouTube to help deliver his baby son.  Basically he’d watched the videos as a precaution when his wife had started to feel discomfort but little did he know that the knowledge he’d gained would actually deliver his son.

So this got me thinking, if an instructional video on YouTube can be used to help someone deliver a baby where does the power of the internet stop?

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David Thomas

How do you deal with email spam (Part 3 of 10)?

April 25, 2009 — 12:11 pm

We all receive irritating spam emails but did you know that there are billions of spam emails sent every day?  Not only are they irritating but they also potentially carry damaging attachments that can cause problems for your business.

There is also another aspect that’s an issue for small businesses and that’s the amount of time wasted dealing with spam.  Have you ever considered how the minutes add up and cost your business?

By way of an example we were talking to one client about the amount of spam they received.  When the client had considered the interruption time, opening the email, briefly reading it, deleting the email and moving on to the next one they estimated that on average an employee spent 15 minutes spread throughout the day dealing with spam emails.

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How Necessary Is a Website?

April 23, 2009 — 11:25 am

By Paul Selibio

A website, interchangeably referred to as “online business card” or “web address”, has tremendous potential in getting your message and idea across global communities, which other promotional media may be found wanting.  Today, it has catapulted marketing into the realm of content, audio and video plus person to person interaction carried over chat rooms still made possible by an accessible online address, transcending time and space.

With no territorial boundaries, having a website is an indispensable tool for an entrepreneur who wishes to bring his products or service to global attention.

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Access vs. Excel – Which should I use for my database?

— 10:10 am

By:  William Gee

As a Microsoft Office software instructor for fifteen years, I am sometimes asked whether to use Access or Excel to keep track of database information and calculate summaries, subtotals or complex formulas and functions with the data. The fact is that Excel, which is probably best known for its number crunching capabilities, has robust database functionality. Access, which is indeed a database program, can perform many of the complex math formulas and functions that Excel is known for. So which should you use?

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Jump Starting a Small Business Presence Online

April 22, 2009 — 11:10 am

Author: Wendy Maki

The traffic statistics page for Robert’s new small business web site starts to load.  He scrolls down the page, dismayed.  Just one or two visitors daily. Robert sits back and sighs. Most were probably curious friends and family.

When his internet-savvy nephew suggested promoting his small business on the Internet, Robert designed a simple but attractive five-page small business web site.  He added meta-tags and keywords, and waited for the search engines.

Robert wonders, “What now?”

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Free and Open Source Alternatives to Photoshop

— 10:20 am

Author: Martin Bloughkinski

For any web designer, Adobe Photoshop is a must on any wish list. Photoshop comes with a multitude of features that allow exceptional and professional photo editing. But the reason many designers do not use Photoshop is simply the price, which can be too expensive. Fortunately for designers, there are numerous open source and entirely free programs out there that do as much as Photoshop if not more.

Doodlekit is a fully hosted online free website builder and CMS (Content Management System) that helps you build a personal or business website. It’s perfect for anyone from first-timers to advanced web developers and web designers. Unlike other website creator tools, Doodlekit is all online. You don’t need to install any software on your computer, and you can use it from any computer, anywhere in the world that has internet access, at any time.

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An Alternative to Microsoft Office – save £200 per user

April 20, 2009 — 8:58 am

A new small business faces a many spending decisions around infrastructure, facilities and professional services.   Of these the IT setup costs can be a significant portion.   One area of expense is software and in particular licensing each employees PC with the Micorosft Office suite of applications (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint).  It’s important for most businesses to be able to create and exchange Word and Excel documents and so this may seem like a spending area that has no other choice.

However an “Open Source” alternative exists that can be downloaded called OpenOffice.org and is available from here:

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