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Another Scammy Pitch By BT

BT is just the worst example of a big company trying to save itself from the revolution by parting novices and fools from their money. A few weeks ago it shut down BT Workspace having charged people good money to use this “BT” service, it then decides the deal isn’t worth it and shuts the [...]

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Announcing Clinical Research Hub | Avantrasara

Clinical Research Hub Announcement Avantrasara is pleased to pre-announce it’s new Clinical Research Hub – an on-line data warehouse complemented by a range of data collection, analysis and management tools. Access to the services will be limited to accredited clinical researchers working in healthcare or academia. Highlights Researchers will use leading edge data management services [...]

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Learning from Going Viral

We all hear the expression – “gone viral”, usually referring to some silly video on You Tube, but it’s not often we get to watch it happen to our own content. Now I’ve finally got an example.  Unfortunately it’s not millions of views, but it does demonstrate the point. We can’t influence whether our content [...]

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Why USA Drives Innovation in Business

How come businesses in the United States lead innovation, and keep doing it. How come businesses in Europe, and Scotland in particular, miss the boat, consistently. Watching this video will shine a light on the differences in culture which drive differences in environment which drive differences in behaviour. Anybody charged with supporting innovation in business, [...]

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Pre Announcing the new Front Office Box Social CRM | frontofficebox

It’s here, well, on the staging server at least, and working just great. Before we release there are some page layout issues we need to sort out, and we need to do a thorough test (it’s already been tested several times but another run before deploy can’t hurt).  That little lot is maybe a weeks [...]

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Is Business in the Social Web an Illusion

It seems to me there’s not one Internet, but three.  Two of them are real! There’s the Business Internet -  point to point connectivity between those publishing and others reading.  With the exception of blogging it hasn’t changed very much over the last ten years.  User privileges are tightly controlled, there’s minimal interaction between users [...]

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Building Internet Based Services

You might want to think about the points raised in this presentation by Bokardo which you can find at Designing for Social Traction This is stuff we have direct experience of and can confirm the excellent points made here, although that’s not to say we’ve discovered the answer. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post [...]

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Front Office Operations Management | Front Office Box

We don’t really have much of a back office with payroll, inventory, order processing, etc.  If we did we’d probably outsource it, certainly the payroll.  We manage accounting using a combination of PayPal, Google Checkout, Spreadsheets and Sites. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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Free Office Software on the Business Internet | Front Office Box

There’s not a lot of point in having all this connection to the Internet if we’re going to use desk top software for personal productivity. Luckily we don’t have to use Microsoft Office, Exchange and Sharepoint. We can save ourselves large chunks of money in licenses and support costs simply by using Google Apps, for [...]

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