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Thank You Steve Jobs

By Darren Starr / October 6, 2011 / 1 Comment

Thank you Steve, for changing the world not once, but four times with the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Thank you for showing us that in a world of mediocrity there is room to be successful creating great art. Thank you for being intensely genuine no matter the consequences. Now that you are gone I […]

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touch.salesforce.com The Next Salesforce Interface

By Darren Starr / September 1, 2011 / 0 Comments

Touch.salesforce.com is one of the most exciting developments from Dreamforce 2011 that will be released in early 2012. It will be a great way to optimize your use of Salesforce. It is an HTML5 interface for Salesforce that will work on any mobile device, and will instantly modify the interface for the appropriate device type. […]

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Why I Use Google Voice

By Darren Starr / February 6, 2010 / 0 Comments

I’m in the process of transitioning all of my business and personal contacts over to Google Voice. Even my mother calls my Google Voice number now, so you know I’m serious. Here’s why: Google Voice transcribes your voice mail messages into email messages so you can read your emails. This saves time if you receive […]

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The iPad and Virgo Love

By Darren Starr / February 5, 2010 / 0 Comments

I have not used an iPad or seen one close up, but I can tell you what its good for: sitting on the sofa and looking at, and making minor edits to, content that is stored on the internet (in the cloud), just like Steve Jobs did during his demo of the iPad. Apple knows […]

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Social Media & Social Capital

By Darren Starr / January 26, 2010 / 0 Comments

In “The Facebook Era,” the author talks about social capital, and how social networking using tools like Facebook create social capital. The book defines social capital as the collective value of all social networks and the inclinations that arise from these network to do things for each other. She goes on to say that social […]

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Salesforce for Twitter

By Darren Starr / January 12, 2010 / 0 Comments

We’re excited about Salesforce for Twitter. We first saw it at Dreamforce a few months ago and recently spent some time using the product. The product has a lot of potential for helping companies better understand their Twitter community and use Twitter to improve customer service while reducing customer service costs.

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2010 Technology Trends

By Darren Starr / January 2, 2010 / 0 Comments

More mobile applications – the iPhone started a revolution which is just getting going even though it has already changed the world. And finally it looks like other companies may have figured out how to build a smart phone people actually like to use.

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No More Mediocre IT

By Darren Starr / December 5, 2009 / 0 Comments

Mediocrity is the norm in IT. Stuff breaks or stops working, users call the help desk, and then it gets fixed. Or it never really works right to start with but we get used to it. Consider how confusing and problem-prone Microsoft Outlook is, while at the same time its the standard for a corporate […]

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Report from Dreamforce (Salesforce.com Conference)

By Darren Starr / November 21, 2009 / 0 Comments

Along with 18,000 others….I just came back from Salesforce’s annual love fest which they call Dreamforce. The highlights of the conference were

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Get a Taste of Salesforce

By Darren Starr / November 20, 2009 / 0 Comments

Salesforce is offering their Personal Edition for as low as $60/year per user. A Chatter license is included in Personal Edition, as well as all other editions of Salesforce. This is a great low-cost way to get a taste of what Salesforce is like. You can always upgrade to a business-class version of the product […]

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Why You Don’t Want to Backup Your Own Data

By Darren Starr / November 7, 2009 / 0 Comments

From InfoWorld

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Why Business Is Moving to the Cloud

By Darren Starr / October 9, 2009 / 0 Comments

I was watching a video from Salesforce.com the other day and their Senior VP of Service Cloud, Alex Dayon, made a very simple but important point about why businesses need to move to cloud-based services.

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Advantages of Cloud Computing

By Darren Starr / September 30, 2009 / 0 Comments

Just as the internet changed the world, cloud computing will too. Cloud computing is a paradigm shift for the way Information Technology is delivered to businesses that allows businesses to decrease their IT costs while they improve productivity and efficiency.

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The 11 Categories of Cloud Computing

By Darren Starr / September 29, 2009 / 0 Comments

Breaking cloud computing into categories makes it easier to understand how you can use it in your business and less confusing.

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Advantages of Internet-based Backup

By Darren Starr / September 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

If you’re maintaining an on-site backup system you can reduce your costs and increase the security of your data by moving to an internet-based backup service. Here’s how:

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Cloud Service Providers

By Darren Starr / September 13, 2009 / 0 Comments

These are cloud computing providers who we use, recommend, and/or just find interesting. 3tera – Infrastructure in the Cloud Amazon EC2 – Computing in the Cloud

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Types of Cloud Computing

By Darren Starr / September 1, 2009 / 0 Comments

Software As A Service (SaaS) – This type of cloud computing delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side, with just one app to maintain, costs are low compared to […]

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Definitions of Cloud Computing v1.1

By Darren Starr / August 25, 2009 / 0 Comments

1) Cloud computing is on-demand access to virtualized IT resources that are housed outside of your own data center, shared by others, simple to use, paid for via subscription and accessed over the Web. 2) Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service […]

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What is Cloud Computing?

By Darren Starr / August 21, 2009 / 1 Comment

Click here to see a video that answers this question.

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Basecamp – Making Project Management Simple

By Darren Starr / August 20, 2009 / 0 Comments

Basecamp is web-based project management tool that makes project management easy and almost fun. It doesn’t do gant charts or other features required for large projects but for most people it does enough and its easy to use. And because its web based, you can access it from anywhere and work on a project with […]

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IT in the Cloud

By Darren Starr / August 17, 2009 / 0 Comments

Introduction Small businesses owners and executives now have the opportunity to utilize cloud-based Information Technology services for almost all of their technology needs. By cloud-based I mean that you  access the service over the internet and rent access to it. This offers many advantages over deploying computer servers in your offices. Among the advantages are:

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