Today in civil litigation, electronically stored information, including email is the most requested form of information discovery. This makes sense as over 90 percent of all of a company’s information is generated and stored electronically. It is this information that can save or kill a company in litigation. Based on this new litigation reality it [...]

Software As A Service (SAAS) is a simple concept: rather than purchasing software and installing that software within your IT infrastructure, you rent access to an application over the internet. The use of SAAS is growing. Nucleus Research says that thier research suggests that two-thirds of companies have adopted some form of Software As A [...]

By one of my frequent guest contributors, MJ Gilhooley:  In order to determine exactly what we even mean by Networking, let’s go to good old Webster’s Dictionary for a definition. Definition: Networking – The exchange of information or services among individuals, groups or institutions. The meaning today is still as broad as it was back [...]

Influence management is the ability to get things done with and through others that you have no direct influence over while direct is doing the same thing wiht people that work for you or that you compensate in some way. Which is more valuable? What job roles require which type? Way back in the early [...]

I am at a trade show in Ohio whose audience is statewide school business officials including board members. There are about 10,000 attendees, one of the biggest such shows in the country I am told. I am struck by the incredible displays that all of the architectural firms are using on the exhibit floor, they [...]

Two-thirds of teens, or 66.9 percent, indicated they would like to start their own business someday, according to the sixth annual JA Worldwide “InterpriseT Poll on Entrepreneurship,” down from the 70.9 percent who expressed interest in becoming entrepreneurs in last year’s poll and the first decline since 2004. The poll was administered in early 2007, [...]

From time to time I come across a new website (New to me anyway) that I like to share with my readers. I want to highlight in this post a site called CEO Smack. CEO Smack is like a combination Business and Gossip magazine, covering over 15 different industries you can find such topics as: [...]

I was flattered to be interviewed this past week by Renee Oricchio for Inc. Magazines Online Edition regarding how a small business should choose and buy technology. I don’t know when the article will appear but one point I made in the interview I thought I would write about here on Small Business CEO. So [...]

There is SO much good content in blogs these days for small businesses how in the world do you sort through it to trusted quality sources. Over at Bootstrapper Jessica Hupp has crafted an incredible post of the 100 Best Finance Blog Posts. First off 100 posts is a lot of posts, here are some [...]

A friend of mine Becky McCray and Jeanne Cole recorded live from a Small Business Development Center, take small biz startup questions live in the chat room and by video. Guests include small biz experts and real-world entrepreneurs Tatsuya Nakagawa and Bill Gregory. Becky is a real experimenter with all of the new forms of internet media, I did [...]