The nature of a business owner is to get things done, which often means they must do it themselves, but as a business grows, this is no longer an option. Time may be better spent on key activities, leaving some less critical, but equally important jobs to employees. The hesitance with delegation is (1) it won’t be done...
Read MoreNow, if you live in the US, Brazil, Canada, or another handful of countries, you can finally make Skype calls directly from your Outlook application, even if you don’t have Skype installed. Two of the largest communication services Microsoft owns have now been linked (Outlook and Skype), and so far the results have been promising. As of earlier...
Read MoreThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also coined Obamacare, was passed in 2010 and will go into effect in 2014. Several provisions of the law will directly effect small-businesses and the way employee health insurance is provided. Small business owners will be able to shop in an open and competitive marketplace for insurance plans; enrollment will begin...
Read MoreTwitter users need to be on the lookout for third-party application connections to their accounts, and should disengage and reengage all of them to skirt around hacking attempts. In fact, that’s advice straight from the hacker who just leaked 15,167 Twitter credentials on Tuesday. The hacker, Mauritania, promised Techworm that he planned on stealing the “entire database of...
Read MoreLeague of Legends, an online RPG game that has gained a lot of momentum among casual and hardcore players in the last few years, was recently hacked. Riot Games, who owns and maintains League of Legends, announced earlier this week that usernames, e-mail addresses, first and last names, passwords, and some “salted†credit card numbers had been accessed...
Read MoreSocial media is not a passing phase but a new standard in business. Facebook is a critical component to a business’s social media portfolio, and a complete and accurate profile is essential for your marketing goals. For a business that already has a completed profile, rehashing these basics can be a good measure to an effective Facebook page....
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg, along with Nokia, Samsung, Qualcomm, and several other large tech companies, are going to attempt a feat that would change the world forever: they want to bring Internet to the five billion people who don’t have access. Zuckerburg, who owns and maintains Facebook, said this about the project in a statement: “Everything Facebook has done has...
Read MoreInnovation, creativity and imagination are powerful tools for all businesses today. The real trick for business owners is to capture these skills, but still attain productivity. A typical work environment can actually be a brain-killer. Standard office design of boxed-in space, drab walls, and strict schedules are not very conducive in harboring an inventive environment. Simple basics added...
Read MoreDoes your office battle with organization? Does paperwork get lost going from one person to another mysteriously, only to show up weeks later in a pile you didn’t know existed? While cloud services won’t solve every problem you’ll ever have, it’s certainly become an essential tool in small and large businesses across the world. So What’s Cloud Computing?...
Read MoreTwitter has been busy lately updating their website for many different things, and today brings just a few more updates to the way feeds work and the ease of reporting abusive tweets. The first new feature is the “report abuse†button, which has been something that users have been asking about for months, if not years. The move...
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