http://www.itworld.com/e-mail xx http://www.itworld.com/small-business/82173/google-apps-trump-ibm-lotus-inotes-lame-offering Did you notice Google Apps has a new competitor? Didn't think so. You'd think IBM and Lotus could come up with 1) a better product to compete on Google's turf and 2) figure out a way to make a bigger splash. All we have here are lame offerings created by idiot vice presidents and marketed by other idiot vice presidents. http://www.itworld.com/small-business/82173/google-apps-trump-ibm-lotus-inotes-lame-offering#comments Business Personal tech SaaS Small business Opinion E-mail Google Google Apps IBM Lotus iNotes Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:50:43 -0400 James Gaskin 82173 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/small-business/80252/three-ways-improve-focus-and-work-smarter They tell us to “work smarter, not harder” but working harder is, oddly, easier than working smarter. Why? Because no one gives full attention to anything anymore. My slogan is “always connected, always distracted.” http://www.itworld.com/small-business/80252/three-ways-improve-focus-and-work-smarter#comments Personal tech Small business Tech & society Opinion concentration creativity distractions E-mail focus Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:10:05 -0400 James Gaskin 80252 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/73869/5-reasons-use-sharepoint-instead-emailing-excel-files SharePoint acts as a basic replacement for shared folders on file servers. http://www.itworld.com/software/73869/5-reasons-use-sharepoint-instead-emailing-excel-files#comments Software Analysis document management E-mail Excel SharePoint Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:37:46 -0400 jbort 73869 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/small-business/71117/lisa-technophobe-loves-new-netbook When hardcore technophobes start to tell me about their new computer, I usually hear complaints. Last weekend, my friend Lisa told me she was happy with a computer for the first time in her life. Her new system? A netbook, which fulfilled her goals of portability and providing just what she needed finally made her happy about computers. http://www.itworld.com/small-business/71117/lisa-technophobe-loves-new-netbook#comments Hardware Personal tech Small business Tech & society LAN Languages and standards Opinion Asus E-mail netbook Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:09:21 -0400 James Gaskin 71117 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/small-business/68861/link-quickbooks-contacts-verticalresponse-e-mail-marketing One of the chores people hate most when using computers? Reentering information from one system into another system. After all, you're typing on the same computer, right? And data should be shared right? So why have to virtually schlep things like contact information from one system to another to another to another to get your work done? This week, at least two companies upgraded virtual schlepping to automated contact sharing. http://www.itworld.com/small-business/68861/link-quickbooks-contacts-verticalresponse-e-mail-marketing#comments Internet SaaS Small business Software Opinion E-mail e-mail marketing Marketing QuickBooks VerticalResponse Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:28:32 -0400 James Gaskin 68861 at http://www.itworld.com