In his book Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell relates the story of Paul Revere’s famous “midnight ride” and the impact it had on the American Revolution. He vividly describes the sequence of events that led to the British army’s defeat by the local militia’s organized and fierce resistance on the morning of April 19, 1775. Gladwell talks about “connectors” those in our community who know a lot of people and

A couple of years ago, I bought a Dell server with the intent of installing Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 and running my own Exchange, SharePoint, and Internet Information Services (IIS). Although not a server or a networking expert, I was confident my geeky tendency to pick up new software technology quickly would get me to a point where I could run my small business like a big enterprise

Notebooks, netbooks, tablets: what’s on your Christmas list this year? Before you spend hundreds of dollars on any of these gadgets, you might want to consider an inexpensive (and even free!) present for the hopeless romantic or an obsessive organizer: Microsoft OneNote. This under-rated, under-used but truly useful product comes bundled with Microsoft Office Suites for the desktop and Office Professional Plus in Office 365, the latest Microsoft cloud technology.

What is Cloud Computing? The “cloud” is a metaphor for the internet. In very simplistic terms, cloud computing means your applications or software, data, and computing needs are accessed, stored, and occur over the internet or the “cloud.” As a small businessperson, cloud computing means your business applications are outsourced somewhere on the Internet where you don’t have to worry about paying for capacity you don’t need and the version

In SharePoint 2010, the “Recently Modified” link on the Quick Launch navigation is enabled by default. If you’re dealing with only a few pages and don’t want to mess with SharePoint Designer, here’s a quick solution. 1) Type in the CSS code below in red into Notepad without the quotes. Save the file. “<style> .s4-recentchanges{ DISPLAY:none; } </style>” .     2) Upload to file to your SharePoint site. Copy

I once worked for an organization that offered work/life balance programs. One of the programs offerings was a take back your life workshop designed to help workers manage their mailbox. At first I laughed at the thought of some evil mailbox taking over my life until I went on a week-long vacation. Sure enough, I had almost a thousand unread emails when I got back. After the initial shock, I