Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) now includes the ability to quickly and easily create Wiki web sites. This is great! Wikis are perfect for documentation, meeting note taking, brainstorming and basically just creating content that a group needs to edit easily. Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on MOSS features out there. I’ve been hunting [...]
Don’t ask me why, but our internal network update announcements are still sent via email in the SNP format which is basically a screen-shot of an access form (old habits die hard…). So, I went to open one today and realized I don’t have the SNP viewer. So, I go to MS.com to download it [...]
“…on the phone that we were told that the website is the work of ‘a subcontractor’ and ‘we get this all the time’”. – Doc Searls Unfortunately, Doc’s experience is far too common and it’s far too rare when a web development team has a migration strategy that doesn’t break URLs. Customer bookmarks or the [...]
Don’t ask for money, just bill people instead. We all rely on shortcuts to simplify our lives and that’s why some unscrupulous marketers try to make their junk mail look like legitimate bills. They know a certain percentage of us will simply pay them without thinking. So I was a little upset to see the [...]
This is 2007 and there’s a lot of businesses that still haven’t figured out the internet. I’ve always found that odd, but have come to realize recently why this is: a lot of businesses still have yet to figure out the phone. We’ve been doing a lot of work outside our house this past year [...]
Yahoo called me this morning. They (someone named “Zoe”) wanted to talk about my website (which one?) and how I could make money with it. By putting Yahoo’s ads on it. “I’m not interested.” “Not even if it could make you money?”, Zoe questioned. “If you’ve been to any of my websites, you’d know that [...]
If you can believe it, it’s been 5 months since I posted on How to Cancel a MySpace Account. It’s not over yet! And it’s really starting to irk me. About a month ago (yes, it’s taken me this long to post about this) I received the MySpace Newsletter in my Inbox. Seriously. I’m pretty [...]
Another bad survey came through. Unlike the previous version..this was completely broken. I found 5 problems in this silent screencast – how many do you count? Quicktime version
Once in a while I’ll post a simple how-to post. Not terribly entertaining, but seems to fill a void out there for anyone searching for days to do the same thing. Hopefully a few fellow frustrated Cybershot users will stumble upon this post some day… So, 5 years ago I bought my first digital camera–a [...]
“A rapid-response web effort has never been more important to crisis communications. That won’t work when home pages of web sites are designed as Flash-driven promotional tools, not information centers.” – Ben McConnell