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Monday, February 8th, 2010
 You know the feeling.
The tickle in the throat. The scratch in the chest. The leak in the nose. Far from down and out, you’re functioning just fine, thankyouverymuch. Still, there’s trouble around your edges and every reason to believe you could be performing at levels much closer to the top of your game.
But wait. Before congratulating yourself on the wisdom that delivered tickly, scratchy, leaky you to the doctor’s office in pursuit of a clean bill, consider that other parts of your life could benefit from similarly preventative attention.
An information technology health check is common sense, (more…)
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
A surfeit of schedules. An excess of expenses. A ribbon of red tape. An imperative to keep costs low and occupancy high. Government agencies on your tail; feckless tenants on your case. Deals that need to be tracked, leases that need to be managed, writeoffs that need to be recovered.
Property management ain’t the breeze you imagined it might be.
But there is help at hand. (more…)
Tags: property management checklist, property management software
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
“I want to be Denmark,” Steve Ballmer famously said, two years after his company acquired the Danish company Navision.
It was a curious stance to embrace, way back in 2004 at Microsoft’s worldwide partner conference, held that year in Toronto. But there was wisdom in Ballmer’s Danish declaration.
Specifically, the Microsoft Corporation CEO was expressing his high-flown opinion that, if Microsoft Business Solutions was as successful with Navision in other countries as it had been in this Viking motherland, this business unit would increase its revenue by a factor of 10. (more…)
Tags: nav, navision
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
 If you’re familiar with the concept of hosting a website, then you get hosted SharePoint. But that doesn’t mean you’re down with all the details.
SharePoint is a browser-based collaboration and document-management platform from Microsoft. Effectively a content-management system, SharePoint allows groups to set up a centralized, password-protected space for document sharing. Here, documents can be stored, downloaded and edited, and then uploaded for continued sharing. SharePoint can also host specialized applications, such as wikis and blogs, from within a browser.
The logic behind the concept is that an organization’s effectiveness can by streamlined by having someone else oversee the maintenance of a server, (more…)
Tags: Hosted Sharepoint, SharePoint Hosting, SharePoint On-Demand
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
(Continued from Part I)
There is something about a new year that gets a person in a predictive frame of mind. A psychic to the stars I am not. But as a fairly successful company we have earned the right to claim some vision, I would think.
And so, without further ado, perched as we are on the brink of yet another decade, bereft of political stimulation thanks to prorogued news, weary of the effort required to stay abreast of the late-night talk-show scramble, I present my collection of predictions for the year ahead (complete with context from years past). (more…)
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
It is instructive to watch, in the wake of the disaster in Haiti, the humble telephone emerge as the planet’s ultimate tool.
In the very first minute after the earthquake, 106 people filed status updates with the word “earth” in them. In the first three minutes, that number jumped to over 700. Since then, updates with the word “Haiti” have been coming at the rate of 1,500 a minute, according to the Mobile Giving Foundation.
But not only are texting, Tweeting survivors alerting the world to their plight, many of us on the receiving end are responding with our keypads, too. (more…)
Tags: Microsoft Unified Communications
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
I read something recently that tugged at some of my dangling entrepreneurial threads.
It was an account of a recent study, an annual report on CFOs from global business process outsourcing company WNS, in which analysts spoke breathlessly of the looming sea change for the chief financial officer’s role on the corporate stage.
The concept of a revised version of this essential corporate functionary is interesting to me, particularly as it relates to the question of how 360 Visibility might support it. (more…)
Tags: CFO
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
 A new year dawns differently for everyone, depending on where it finds them. And for some, there is no dawn at all.
A new page on the calendar, alas and alack, doesn’t do a thing to staunch the flow of horrifying news streaming up from those dark recesses of our world where men commit acts of violence against women so odious they’ll steal your breath.
When I first read about the acid attacks perpetrated on women in certain cultures and countries, when I first understood the brutality that defines them, the viciousness that underlies them, the devastation that results from them, I was floored. (more…)
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
I’m not looking to ride the ink trails of Charles Dickens here, but it’s awfully hard to resist when he laid down so apt an all-purpose summary of a year. Because it is always the best of times—and the worst. A little of this, a little of that. Some highs, some lows. One day you’re an American journalist getting an escort from North Korea by Bill Clinton, the next you’re Taylor Swift and your stage is being stormed by Kanye.
Certainly if you were Miss California or Roman Polanski in 2009, you’ve had better revolutions through the lunar cycle. But if you were Susan Boyle or the guy who won that dream job on that Pacific Island, well, you had yourself a bit of a party over the last 12 months, didn’t you?
As for us here at 360 and our journey through the latest calendar pages, we feel confident laying claim to Dickens’ more positive category of assessment. Prominent among those best-of times was our growth. In spite of the so-called “recession,” we managed to pass another year in expansion mode. (more…)
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Pause for the briefest of moments—just long enough to re-tally Tiger Woods’ score, maybe, or to reassure yourself of Michael Jackson’s continued non-existence—and don’t be surprised to look up and discover it’s 2010.
A solid-sounding year, certainly. The first semi-comfortable post upon which to hang the collective, persistent astonishment we feel at finding ourselves in this twenty-first century. A year of some substance, at last, that breaks through the watery single digits with the triumph of a decade marker. (more…)
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