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Category Archives: Business

Interview with Lucinda Cross, President of Ultimate VA Support

04-Jan-09

Join us Monday morning on Blog Talk Radio. I will be talking with Lucinda Cross, President of Ultimate VA Support. We’ll be discussing how a Virtual Assistant can help you and your small business.

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Project Updating Should Be Easy For Users

22-Dec-08

A house framer should only worry about building a house frame. He doesn’t need to know all the details about the foundation, the roof, the plumbing, the electrical, or insulation. A framer only needs to worry about his part of the project. When he reports to the contractor, the job is either not started, underway, [...]

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Let us start a Social Media Club chapter

04-Dec-08

I think the Rio Grande Valley should have a local Social Media Club. I believe this because I can see many of the necessary components we need to organize a vibrant community of local social media users and those willing to teach it. SMC’s tagline is “if you get it, share it”; meaning that if [...]

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A New Look at Basecamp

30-Nov-08

I have recently started using Basecamp again to organize projects. My first exposure to Basecamp was as a guest on Jennifer Navarrete’s account for organizing PodCamp San Antonio. I was able to navigate it well enough; but I could never wrap my mind around what the features were meant to do. While I could follow [...]

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Wal-Mart Offers Investing Services to Customers

08-Nov-08

I don’t know where I was that I missed the announcement that Wal-Mart would enter the investment services market. Wal-Mart has long had an interest in entering the financial services market. Despite all the recent bad news about how Wall Street has hosed the country, financial services are still a very profitable sector. Wal-Mart has [...]

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Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud Now Has Windows

25-Oct-08

Amazon Web Services has a new product in their Elastic Compute Cloud, they now offer Microsoft Windows virtual servers. Until now, the only virtual machines you could use from EC2 were Linux/Unix based virtual machines. These virtual machines provide quick and “easy” scalability for web applications. Virtual machines have also gained popularity in the IT [...]

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