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USB drives obsolete">Dropbox makes USB drives obsolete

May 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Well, maybe not obsolete, but definitely less integral for the mobile profes­sional. I started using Dropbox roughly six months ago and have been consis­tently impressed with the service, single tweet of discontent aside. Dropbox syncs your files between computers on which you have their light­weight software installed. It creates a folder where you can store […]

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Facebook as the intranet

January 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

When I first heard about the company using Facebook as their intranet, I wasn’t sure what to think. Serena Software is really replacing its existing intranet with Facebook as a front end linked to a low-cost content management system behind the firewall. The firm is just over 800 employees but is still globally based (opera­tions in […]

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The tumblelog

November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

If you’re subscribed to my RSS feed, you don’t need to check the site itself to receive any updates I make in terms of posts (or comments, made by everyone, in the case of the comments RSS feed). In that case, you may not have noticed yet that I’ve added a new “section” of sorts […]

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RSS to keep up with your favourite sites">Using RSS to keep up with your favourite sites

November 20th, 2007 · 5 Comments

If you want to keep up with this blog but don’t want to have to remember to check back on a regular basis, one option available to you is the RSS feed. RSS (Really Simple Syndi­cation) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or […]

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Using wikis or blogs to manage knowledge in firms

November 8th, 2007 · 7 Comments

A recent article on WebCPA confused and inspired me: Accounting firms need to become more intel­ligent businesses by better lever­aging the time and knowledge of their profes­sional staff, according to a survey… […] Firms with a formal knowledge management program benefited from its imple­men­tation. Hmm… Intel­li­gence, good. Lever­aging knowledge, check. Formal knowledge management program, bingo! […]

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