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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Dropbox increases maximum free storage via referrals
April 4th, 2012 · No Comments
Category: Technology
Tags: Android, app, cloud, dropbox, free, iPhone, Linux, Mac, software, storage, Windows
Integrate social media efforts across marketing and customer service
March 1st, 2011 · No Comments
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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Tags: customer service, feedback, Marketing, social media
Opening up Outlook’s data format
June 26th, 2010 · No Comments
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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Tags: data, email, exchange, information, interoperability, knowledge, Microsoft, Outlook, PST
Payroll system conversion horror story
January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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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Tags: conversion, Governance, internal audit, payroll, school, system, Texas
WSJ on why work tech sucks">WSJ on why work tech sucks
November 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments
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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Tags: hardware, IM, iPhone, Kraft, productivity, software, tech, Windows

