Dropbox announced yesterday they are increasing the amount of free storage one can earn by referring people to the service! I wrote a blog post about the service almost three years ago, claiming they made USB drives obsolete. Dropbox offers 2GB of free cloud storage that integrates seemlessly into Windows, Mac and Linux, and more […]

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Most organi­za­tions likely place social media respon­si­bil­ities primarily (or solely) with marketing, but a recent interview with Cisco’s Marketing Director on WebWork­er­Daily, now part of GigaOM provides some insightful tips and makes the case for spreading it throughout the company, especially to customer service: The heads of both your marketing and customer service depart­ments should […]

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In Q4 last year, Microsoft announced through its Inter­op­er­ability @ Microsoft blog that it was planning to open up its propri­etary PST email format used by Outlook. The data in .pst files has been acces­sible through the Messaging API (MAPI) and Outlook Object Model (two things of which my under­standing is minimal at best), but […]

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Converting their payroll system has resulted in some serious errors to the tune of greater than $1.5 million for the Fort Worth (Texas) school district. The school district overpaid employees and former employees at least $1.54 million, according to the [internal] audit. It also found that the district’s payroll system lacked proper controls, was cumbersome […]

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You’ll have to hurry before Rupert puts it behind a paywall and blocks Google from indexing it, but the WSJ had a good article recently about technology in the workplace. At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging software, and the email system routinely badgers you to delete messages after you blow through […]

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