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Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
October 19, 2011
Tech Predictions for 2012
At a global broadband policy conference in late 2011, I was asked to define the state of technology in this year. The answer came down to this: 2011 was the year that reality set in. That requires a bit of explanation, but we can begin to define it with five simple trends that emerged this…
October 19, 2011
A Year of Change, A Future of Promise
First, I’d like to say thank you to those of you who have followed my columns and presentations for years. I look continuously for companies and products that will help your practices serve clients better while producing better revenue for the firm and the partners.
October 18, 2011
Gifts, Gadgets and Tech for the Holidays
From Geeky to Chic, A Gadget for Everyone on Your List!
October 18, 2011
Making Your Website Mobile Friendly
As more consumers use their smartphones and other mobile devices to search for places to eat and shop, small businesses without a mobile version of their website could be losing potential customers and revenue.
October 18, 2011
Advertising and Accounting
Years ago, I worked for a firm whose principal partner, a man with no family or outside interests, kept us at work on Christmas Eve until after a 6pm “staff meeting” — no holiday cheer in that firm, and we secretly began to call him “Uncle Ebeneezer.” I was reminded of that when I saw...…
October 17, 2011
Giving Back to the Community
The Watkins team brings anti-bullying program, Operation Nice, to local schools. This month’s Great Practice profile is unlike any other. Our spotlighted firm was selected based not on innovation in technology, branding or website (though they certainly exhibit all this in spades), but rather for the firm’s commendable effort to give back to the community.
October 17, 2011
FUND E-Z Fund Raising Software
October 13, 2011
Mobile & Online Expense Management Webcast – Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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October 13, 2011
Time To Dump Blackberry?
For most of this week, Research In Motion has had server problems with its signature Blackberry service, frustrating users and leading to the inevitable media speculation that those users will abandon Blackberry. Poor RIM just doesn’t get any respect. In a year in which it has released a new tablet whose basic structure was advanced...…
October 12, 2011
Valuable Lessons Learned From Building a New Website
I know what you’re thinking … this is going to be another article about how to build a website. While I could have given you a Website 101 primer, I think our time is better spent telling you what I learned when I recently built a website for a client. In full disclosure, 1) the...…