I spend a lot of time analyzing the capabilities of software. One, clients expect you to know that stuff without you billing them for it. Two, I live in fear of assuming a piece (or combination) of software won’t do what I promised. It also can be fun – as window shopping can be. I bumped into the analysis Gareth…
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Deeper Into the MS Cloud
Since writing a piece on my interest in Microsoft’s new cloud offerings, I’ve been spending lots of down-time learning Office 365 (SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync) and MS Dynamics CRM. I’m fine with open source and Salesforce projects, but they don’t motivate me to stay up late investigating something like an integration scenario as…
Disposable Websites
I’ve managed WordPress website projects that take a whole year to launch with re-design, multiple custom themes, data transformation, data presentation, and (you probably guessed) complicated internal politics. But I do love a website that goes from idea to launched in few hours. This last one went like this, “You’ve done all this great research…
Infrastructure Planning – Simplify, Automate, and then Integrate
In March I wrote up: Quick Set Up of Fledgling Biz IT which described the quick brochure-ware site I put up with/for a client. That client and I have been meeting since then to work out his business plan and strategy. Yesterday, I presented a back office infrastructure plan which included everything from who he will use…
Using HubSpot and Office 365
I’m finally signing up a customer/partner with my brother’s (now huge) company HubSpot.com and with Microsoft’s Office 365. We’re going to be linking up MS Dynamics CRM and integrating quite a few services into this new site. You’d think that customer would be run by younger folks but no; this is a company run by…
Started Testing Office 365, Small Business Server….
I admit it; I’m a Microsoft Office Live Small Business fan. It’s like a Version 1 or V1.5 product, BPOS is like Version 2, and Office 365 is like V3. People often say that you should expect Microsoft to have a product down by V3. Office 365 has similar functionality to Office Live Small Business…
Small Biz MS Exchange Options
I had a company on MS Office Live Small Business. We set their email, contacts, and calendaring system up a few years ago on a hosted MS Exchange Server through 4Smartphone.com. It worked great. When MS came out with what they call Hotmail Exchange ActiveSync late last year, partially to save some money, we moved…
Quick Set Up of Fledgling Biz IT
I set up a website and email system for a fledgling business last week in about 3 hours. I sent some options with pros/cons and then Skyped the founder. He showed his desktop and clicked through some links. We chose to buy the web domain and hosting from WordPress.com. WordPress.com makes it easy to set up…
Office 365, Intune, and Dynamics CRM Online
Free software isn’t always cheaper in the end. I’m dealing with a horrible cluster of open source software on one project; we barely get anything done with all the time we spend trying to figure how the software works. My recent web projects have been in Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and with Microsoft tools. I’ve even…
Moved Blog to WordPress
Moving this (these) blog(s) to WordPress seems to be working out well. Some of this content was on was an MS Spaces blog and some on a Google Blogger blog. I’m working with a bunch of sites that are WordPress.com or use WordPress.org. Most of them aren’t blogs but full-on websites that may have a blog…