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Welcome to Small Business Technology Report - from Smallbiztechnology.com! Small Biz Big Things - San Francisco - Feb 2012 7th Annual Small Business Summit - NYC - March 2012 Live Online Event - Join me at the Small Business Success Summit by SocialMediaExaminer.com . Live online event - Feb 1 - Feb 25 Small Business Summit  (NYC) March 2012. Awesome line up of speakers - Austin Craig, Orabrush; Scott Hintz, Tripit The 7th Annual Small Business Summit is one of the premier events where growing businesses can hear from experts, network, have fun and eat great food. Please visit Klout and click on the topics you think I'm most influential about. Please LIKE our Facebook Page Follow me on Twitter Watch our YouTube Channel  smallbusinesstechnologyguide.com Download a GIFT (free) copy of my latest book "Technology Resources for Growing Businesses" or buy it at Amazon.com What's inside... Amazon Kindle Fire to Dominate the World of Tablets? Make Social Activity Productive with IGLOO Software 3 Tips Retailers Must Know: Leverage Amazon.com. Ecommerce Bits from ColderICE Four Things To Look For In A Good Email Server 5 Tips to Cutting Those Rising Telecom Costs 10 Tips For IT Managers To Better Manage Microsoft SharePoint The Cloud isn't Best for Everything (Video) Tools for Building Authority and Credibility Online (neat infographic) Mobile Apps as Simple as 1, 2, Magmito Ink Signatures Are Not Productive. Capture Digital Signatures Instead. ,  So I debated with myself, do I send out an issue Small Biz Tech Report on Thursday - Thanksgiving day? No one is reading it, as you're all with family or friends or otherwise engaged, I thought. However, I figured, that there is at least ONE person this great day who's going to read Small Business Techonlogy Report and learn something today. As we celebrate this awesome day, let's think about those in our midst who do not have family or friends to be with or who do not have a proper place to stay. Let's think about those who serve in our military and their families who both sacrifice so much. Keep in mind Small Business Saturday is only 2 days away - SHOP at your local small business and support them. Thanks for American Express for thinking of this great idea! Ramon Ray, Editor & Technology Evangelist, Smallbiztechnology.com ramon@smallbiztechnology.com I'm really happy that Small Biz Big Things 2012 is launched - taking place in San Francisco on February 7th. Speakers (seasoned entrepreneurs and business leaders) from Eventbrite, Orabrush, Tripit and InfoArmy will share their years of experience to help your business grow! The 7th annual Small Business Summit , New York City, is also around the corner and takes place March 2012. Exhibit and/or attend - either way your business will grow.      Amazon Kindle Fire to Dominate the World of Tablets? Recently, Amazon released its own version of their tablet called "Kindle Fire"'. This 7-inch touch screen tablet has been said that sooner or later, it will dominate the long battle of the tablet wars. So what kind of edge does this Kindle have compared to other major brands like Samsung, Motorola and Blackberry? Here are some of the features of the Amazon Kindle Fire: According to Amazon’s website, its display is multi-touch with in-plane switching technology. Although the same as... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • Make Social Activity Productive with IGLOO Software Businesses may go back and forth on whether or not social media should be allowed in the workplace, but all businesses agree that they would like their employees to socialize with each other and to collaborate as a team. Fortunately, there are a few tools out there that can turn socialization into collaboration and productivity. “People like to work in a social way,” said Andrew Dixon, VP of Marketing and Operations for IGLOO Software. “This is a social approach to business... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • 3 Tips Retailers Must Know: Leverage Amazon.com. Ecommerce Bits from ColderICE Sales guru John ColderICE Lawson has launched a new series of videos helping retailers sell better oline. John is one of the saviest, smartest and funniest sales gurus you’ll meet. He’s a guru because he’s not just some guy in an ivory tower telling you how to sell, he’s also a top notch and very successful seller on eBay. In this first series John speaks about the overall marketplace of online retail vs brick and mortar retail. He then offers two huge tips to help you... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • Four Things To Look For In A Good Email Server All growing businesses host their email using an emial server as opposed to janesbakery@hotmil.com Some might use a hosted Microsoft Exchange server from Cbeyond, Rackspace or some other company. Others might use a server from Google (Google Apps), Zoho, Yahoo (not with the @yahoo.com email domain but hosting your company branded email!) or a variety of other solutions. While many businesss are hosting their email in hosted email servers (not on premise servers) many are choosing to thost their... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • 5 Tips to Cutting Those Rising Telecom Costs Believe it or not, the 21st century phone is a mini-computer, a mentor, a telephone, and a personal assistant rolled into one. Undoubtedly, it has become a jack of all trades! This accessible, affordable mobile technology has changed the way we live. Despite increasing telecom costs, it is nearly impossible to run business without a phone. For any individual or business entity, a phone call might be a fresh and responsive lead for a sale or it could be waste of time and money. Fortune 500... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • 10 Tips For IT Managers To Better Manage Microsoft SharePoint All businesses need to collaborate, share documents, build internal (and external) web sites and overall ensure they are optimally communicating. Microsoft SharePoint is one of many products growing businesses can use to ensure their teams (be it a team of 5 people or 500 pepole) can effectively communicate in the office or on the road. While there are many free and low cost tools on the market – such as Google Apps, Zoho, Box.net and Hyper Office, Microsof’t's Share Point offers the... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • The Cloud isn't Best for Everything (Video) Greg Sabey, Senior Public Relations Manager with Kaspersky Lab, discusses cloud security in this video interview below. From a security standpoint, there are a few things that are better managed from the computer instead of on the cloud. Kasperksy Lab is trying to bridge that gap with its newest 2012 product by offering a way for people to find those suspicious files and websites and to be safer online. Kaspersky Lab is an anti-malware firm that has a variety of options for combating malware,... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • Tools for Building Authority and Credibility Online (neat infographic) Beyond selling on your web site, it’s important that all small businesses are publishers. Being a publisher means you are providing a variety of content on your web site. This content is indexed by search engines, found by potential customers, scooped up by reporters and read by your peers and competitors. The infographic below is by Vertical Measures and gives you a “101″ guide to using content to make yourself and authority.   • Email to a friend • Mobile Apps as Simple as 1, 2, Magmito Want to create a mobile app just in time for the holiday season, but don’t know how do it? Or you don’t have the time or the money to hire a programmer? Well, get one done in a matter of minutes with Magmito. Magmito is an online app creation tool that allows anyone, such as a small business, to create an app and to distribute it to any phone operating system on the market. Create a click-to-call app, one that offers special deals, or even one that can help train your employees. ... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend • Ink Signatures Are Not Productive. Capture Digital Signatures Instead. Many industries are dependent on capturing a signature on a document as part of a transaction. For very small businesses the easiest way to get a signature is to have the person signing, to sign a paper form. However, this manual process means that the capture signature is often not able to be capture throughout the organization and stored for future retrieval. There are a variety of solutions on the market and one of the latest solutions is Wacom sign&save, a plug-and-play signature capture... Read the whole entry here »   • Email to a friend •

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