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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Google Wave Promises To Change Online Communication

If you use email (or chat rooms, forums, etc.) to keep in touch with people, you should watch for Google Wave.  If it ends up being able to deliver on everything they’ve been working on, it will revolutionize the way we communicate. It combines the best features of email and social networking and pulls it [...]

Flowchart / Sitemap

I spent some time looking online for software to let me create basic flowcharts for website projects. Short of buying Microsoft’s Visio, I was having a hard time finding anything. I eventually ended up looking in my OpenOffice.org folder to see if they had an equivalent, and took a look at their “Draw” application – [...]

Michigan Business One Stop

I attended a focus group at the E Loft this morning for the Michigan Business One Stop program. They’ve developed a website focused on making small business in Michigan easier, and are working on completing it. From their brochure… Michigan Business One Stop is a state-of-the-art online service that represents a whole new way of [...]

Showing Up In Search Engines

Search engines are one of the more commonly misunderstood tools vital to small business success. Once you’ve accepted that you actually do need a website, and have gotten past the “if you build it they will come” stage, you may find yourself wondering why your website doesn’t show up in the first page of results [...]