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InnoTech Oklahoma 2014 Cloud Facts

Jumbled business and technology glyphs over ominous sky pretty much says it all. No one really knows when the cloud started. Microsoft introduced Hotmail as the free web mail service in 1996. By 1999, Google dominated with search. Those few building blocks have propelled us to the cloud world we have today.

In the 2014 comedy Sex Tape, Jason Segel and Cameron…

Competing with LinkedIn Pulse

  Like millions of other LinkedIn users, I was recently invited to publish on LinkedIn Pulse. The invitation went directly to my Marketing folder via an automatic inbox rule. In truth, it could have been a week or two before I circled back and saw the message.

I’m a LinkedIn fan with posts like 10 Tips for LinkedIn Ranking, but my inbox is for customers. The myriad interrupting noise of offers,…

Virtual CIO Favorite Posts 2013

It’s almost Christmas and I’m alternatingly procrastinating and anxiously looking forward to the holidays.  Although the actual year-end statistics will be provided by WordPress soon, the following posts are my favorites for 2013:

Microsoft Jolts The World (January 2013) – While pundits have been caught unaware over the last decade, Microsoft has completed an integrated platform from…

Top 5 Things to Change About Your Home Page

It’s 2014 and everyone should start to recognize and correct these common home page mistakes:

Possibly the most boring, but also the most popular website color is blue. Why not try to be different?

Stop bragging about Inc 5000, CRN 250, or popularity contests from past years. Even small firms can qualify with just $2 million in revenue for Inc or CRN and dated accolades scream tired and desperate.

On 9/11/2001, I was driving to Muskogee to implement Windows Terminal Services for the Veterans Administration Medical Center. My CFO called my cell and said Tower I had collapsed from a plane crash. During college, she was a nanny for a wealthy family in New York City. My mother’s family was from Empire State and I often spent summers seeing the sites in NYC. Both of us were very familiar with…

12 Reasons Not to Buy iPhone 6

The iPhone 6 announcement is just a few short hours away…

Sorry. I dozed off for second.

Oh and iWatch will be announced too, even though watches are one of the things not to buy anymore because everyone has the time on their phone.

Two years later Apple catches up to the market with a larger screen size for the iPhone and continuously jeers at competitors, while today offering various Nokia…

If you’re the average person, just type whatever you want in the browser address bar. The technology will automatically open the site adding a www. prefix or open a list of search results.

Some technologists and digital marketing types are beginning to spout that www is arcane noise and should be eliminated. The fact is that your website URL should always redirect to http://www.yourdomain.com.

Go…

WPC 2014 Insider Perspective

WPC, otherwise known as the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, was again a huge event this year with over 16,000 attendees descending on Washington D.C. July 13-17. This was my 8th WPC since first attending in 2003. Having traveled most of the nation, D.C. was one of the few cities I hadn’t previously visited. The historic landmarks made an impressive backdrop and the weather was warm, but…

If you don’t know about Yammer, it’s effectively the Facebook for business – recently purchased by Microsoft and now included free in every Office 365 subscription.

Given this one fact, many people think “Social Media? No Way.” and promptly run away. Of those remaining, the majority have LinkedIn or some business features of the various other social networks and can’t fathom the use of something…

Does Your Blog Have a Name?

Cue the music. The tin sounding voice starts and you just know it’s some cool rocker with the life…

Back to Facebook

OK, I was wrong. I really didn’t think Facebook would survive. It was a fad that would fade away…