Today is Monday and it is the administrative day at work – sales meetings, operations meetings, accounting meetings, etc. So to break up the day, I did two things. First – I started streaming some public radio music so I could rock on. Second – I answered a reader’s e-mail regarding ISA and Small Business [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Life Happens’
October 30, 2009
Sources report “End of Life” for MSFT Office Accounting
Sources close to the top have reported Microsoft has “end of lifed” the Office Accounting (OA) product aimed at the small business customer effective november 16, 2009. It is also closing its Microsoft Professional Accounting Network (MPAN) community program. I fondly remember OA and MPAN being big players in our 4th annual SMB Nation fall [...]
October 26, 2009
From the world of telephony and VoIP: Telephonation 2.0
Many readers know that we’re on a journey here at SMB Nation to reach out and extend our conversations to include VoIP.
So let me introduce our “sister site” Telephonation (www.telephonation.com) where we have a robust SMB VoIP conversation occurring daily. In fact – you’d be pleased to know that the web traffic at Telephonation now [...]
October 21, 2009
Don’t be a SMB “twit” get off your duff and TWEET!
Folks – I have just left a MSFT Redmond meeting on BPOS and one of the topics at lunch was the need for consistentcy in blogging/Tweeting/Facebook, etc. I couldn’t agree more and I try to “do all the above” each day. When the following story crossed the wires that only 9 percent of SMB folks [...]
October 20, 2009
All together now – Jennifer and Carl team with WatchGuard on case study
I like it when friends play nice. Such is the case with Jennifer and Carl Mazzanti teamed with our mutual friends at WatchGuard to produce a computer security case study. This cooperation really embodies the spirit of James Kernan’s speech at SMB Nation Fall 2009 on how to work with vendors. It reflects a certain [...]
October 18, 2009
Work hard/Play Hard – that’s the SMB Nation Way!
My good friend and neighbor is a M&A guy with a lot of self-confidence that I admire. He’s a “bring it on” kinda guy! So whereas I think the seven day work week should be full of rigorous and righteous effort, your down time should be equally entergetic. So today I have one of my [...]
October 15, 2009
Must run in the family: SBS Mobile vs Party Van
Like many of my readers, I am aging (hey – today’s 40’s is the new 30’s!).
So over morning coffee I sometimes look in the rear view mirror and reflect (literally) on the good old times. The first photo is exactly that. It is the original SBS Mobile we created on Saturday night at the FIRST [...]
October 9, 2009
I am just a hack – the blog I should have written earlier this week
Alright – I am just shifting gears and getting back up to speed after the BIG FALL CONFERENCE last weekend in VEGAS! Here is a blog I shouda’ written on Monday
News Press Release
New Study Says IT Sector to Help Drive Global Economic Recovery
Research from 52 countries forecasts the creation of 5.8 million new [...]
September 14, 2009
SMB Beer Summits this week: Pasadena and Tustin, California
Folks – can’t we all just get along? YES! So let’s start with a beer summit!!!
Wednesday night at 7pm it’s in Pasadena and co-sponsored with Cloud Services Depot.
Thursday night at 5pm in Tustin (Orange County – near SNA airport) and c0-sponsored with SpamSoap!
Contact me directly at 1-888-SMB-NAT1 and ask for Harrybbbb if you want a [...]
August 27, 2009
SMB Beer Summit – tonight 8pm Silicon Valley
Quick note before I board my flight to the Bay Area from Seattle. I’m hosting a beer summit for my readers and customers tonight at Dave & Busters in the Silicon Valley-area. Starts at 8PM and I’ll pick up the pitchers!
Contact me offline for an invite.
cheers…harrybbbbb
