Training your staff is vital if you want your business to succeed. When it comes to using technology, many employees in companies large and small, just do not have the IT skills they need to carry out their job.
Companies should invest in their staff skills if they want to survive and succeed.
This blog site is still very much a work in progress. I welcome any comments and suggestions to improve the site. Let me know if the articles being posted are of benfit to you or if you would like to see more relevant articles.
I also suggest you look at my other site at roysmithprojects.net to see what services I offer.
The advantage of technology is that we are no longer shackled to the office desk. With the latest generation of mobile phones we can stay in touch with everyone wherever we go. Just about every mobile phone has e-mail and internet capability. As the BBC report their use is on the increase.
So, mobile phones can be used for much more than just making calls. Any small business should be ensuring they are using their capability to the full.
Although there is no official word on how many Windows 7 editions there will be, there is a lot of speculation on what Microsoft may or may not provide.
As always with Microsoft, they made things complicated with Windows Vista. The next version of Windows, would be an opprtunity to simplify things.
One of the big concerns on MS Windows is the amount of disk space taken by the operating system itself. An interesting article on Softpedia has some information on the expected disk space occupied by Windows Vista compared to Windows XP.
Of course, beta versions always occupy more space due to the amount of debug code. However, any moves to reduce the OS footprint has to be a good thing.
Starting a small business is no easy matter. If you would like some help Business Startup is an event at Olympia, London on the 28-29 November 2008.
A laptop is an essential tool for today's business. Unfortunately, the choice of which laptop gets ever more complicated.
This report from zdnet is a good starting point when you are thinking about buying or replacing a laptop.
When using social networks, you need to create some rules for yourself. You need to set limits on how and when you use them, as well as what you put up there and who you let access this information. For the small business owner, social networks are a great marketing tool. The difficulty comes when the business and personal start to merge together.
This article on social networks your way is a good starting point for anyone wanting to use social networks for marketing their business.
Microsoft have provided details on the updates to their online storage service Skydrive.
I am adding new features to this site. The latest addition is to allow posts to be assigned to a category. I envision the categories expanding and new ones appearing as what I blog about will probably change.
This story is on the bbc website.
Does this mean the end of spam? I doubt it. There will always be someone else to take there place. However, if it gives us a respite from spam for a while, then that has to be a good thing
This article on Smashing Magazine highlights some of the trends and examples in newspaper websites.
As a developer it is always good to look at other sites to gain some inspiration on features and trends being implemented on popular sites.
For a while now, I have thought about keeping a blog. Primarily the reason was to use it as a means of improving my online presence and try to bring in some work now that I am freelancing.
I looked at the blogging sites that were out there, such as blogger, wordpress and typepad. Then I started to think, as a developer, surely I shoulld be able to create and design my own blog site. That would allow me more freedom to design and customise it. If the blog site was designed in such a way, it could be easily incorporated in to other sites for my clients.
So here we see the reults. Over the coming weeks I will be developing the site and adding more features.
Anyone who calls himself a techie, is into Star Trek. The latest trek film is due for release in 2009. If you want to know some more about the film, there are some spoilers available
Microsoft are preparing a release date for Windows 7
Check it out
Microsoft Windows 7 is currently in Beta. I will be occassionally posting links to information on this next version of Windows.
I start with an article on Lifehacker which describes 10 features that you might find interesting
Top 10 things to look forward to in Windows 7
Hi there
This is the first post for my new blog site. Rather than use an existing blogging engine, I have decided to create my own. Over the coming weeks, I will be adding additional features to the site.