Small Business Computing Staff

Open Forum: How To Respond To Recent Facebook Changes Susan Kuchinskas explains the new features – changes to the profiles section, Facebook Messages and Places couponing – and explains what small businesses should do to take advantage. “Facebook is in the process of rolling out three new features that you should know about. Why should […]

Entrepreneur: Step By Step: Starting A Mobile Coupon Strategy Jonathan Blum’s three steps – create a coupon in a mobile-friendly format, give it ‘redeeming’ qualities and distribute to mobile devices – may sound self-evident, but Arnold provides useful advice on how to complete each. “Bargain hunters may be savvy with scissors or an online coupon […]

ITBusinessEdge: Preview: New SMB Storage Arrays From Drobo With capacities from 16TB to 36TB, these Drobo network storage products support all the right standards and incorporate Drobo’s BeyondRAID technology which lets users add to a redundant array and mix hard drives of different capacities in an array. Paul Mah was impressed. “Storage company Drobo earlier […]

Entrepreneur: Three Tools To Supercharge Your Small Business Email Newsletter Jonathan Blum explains how three tools – Microsoft Outlook, MailChimp and Constant Contact – can help small businesses just starting with email marketing or those looking for a boost. “In many ways, e-mail marketing and small business are a natural fit. E-mail, in theory, offers […]

Wired: First Look – Motorola Xoom Tablet Computer Xoom uses the latest, tablet-centric version of Google’s Android’s mobile operating system, which has a few bugs and idiosyncracies, this reviewer says. But the screen is mostly great. “As Sly Stone said, the nicer the nice, the higher the price. The question is, is the more expensive […]

ITBusinessEdge: SMBs Worried About Mobile Threats, Banking Malware Could your company’s online bank account fall victim to identity thieves? Paul Mah looks at recent reports about security concerns in SMB community. “An earlier report carried on InformationWeek highlighted how malware and mobile threats are expected to be key attack vectors against SMBs this year. While […]

Open Forum: Online Video For Small Businesses – 4 Ways To Use It Zachary Sniderman’s 4 tips on how small businesses can use video include crowd sourcing videos from customers, using video in place of written content, offering video tutorials and taking advantage of free or cheap video conferencing services such as Skype. “You’ve seen […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Roundup – All The Small Biz Tech News Fit To Post A wide-ranging collection of items this weeks includes news of new server and storage products from Acer, a new webinar series on cloud computing, and new features in LogMeIn’s Android version of its remote computer access software/service. “- Acer Unveils Extensive Portfolio of […]

ITBusinessEdge: Preview – New SMB NAS Products From Promise Technology Paul Mah looks at the recently introduced NSx700 line of NAS products from Promise, which the company says are designed for small businesses. They include most of the features, including all RAID modes, that corporate products do. “Storage specialist Promise Technology launched two new network […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: How To Spruce Up Your Online Brand And Image CDW’s Lauren McCadney’s tips for a small business online face lift include: defining your ‘net impression,’ doing periodic Google searches on your company and and making sure your site is search engine friendly. “Does your company need a digital facelift? Tightening up your online image […]

Entrepreneur: Time Tracking For Small Businesses Jonathan Blum’s trio of time tracking tools for small businesses include: Toggl, yaTimer and Tick. “The concept of tracking employee work hours can be deceptively simple. In practice, it can be a vexing chore. In my shop of five contract employees, we started out with paper invoices. I would […]

Open Forum: Small Business Marketing 2.0: Podcasting Sarah Kessler spotlights three small businesses that have been successful using podcasting – posting regular audio or video messages – as way to augment their online marketing. “There is a chance that your business is interesting to a general audience, that you have connections with a nationally syndicated […]