We are seeing the slow transition away from paper based records to electronic records at an accelerating pace and reaching lower into small and medium business (SMB) market (small law firms, health care, etc). Economic conditions are helping drive this as businesses seek increased efficiency for labour cost savings and to better support increasing mobile workforces.  read more »

William “Bill” Huckabee works for S & K Aerospace under a U.S. Navy contract as a SharePoint developer, administrator and portal master for the Navy Region Northwest’s SharePoint portal, one part of the world wide portal for Commander Naval Installations Command (CNIC). Previously, he was an asset manager with Envisioneering. read more »

On WSTA’s LinkedIn page, Angela Henderson, Manager, Marketing and Business Development at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), posted an article she coordinated for the National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2). ”Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to combat PTSD” was a fascinating read, and represents one of many innovative technology applications for psychological health and traumatic brain injury being focused on in one of GDIT’s divisions. read more »

We’ve had quite a few discussions in our office over the past few weeks: the importance of getting the word out so your efforts aren’t essentially a billboard in the basement; whether any attention is good attention (a variation on the ‘quantity is not necessarily quality’ theme); and the topic of this blog regarding bold strokes versus effective and skilled ones. read more »

If you haven’t gotten in on the BlogTalkRadio craze yet to indulge your inner disc jockey or Howard Stern redux, now there’s an even easier way to produce and syndicate a podcast. read more »

It’s been a busy yet contemplative time since retiring from WSTA this past October.  Not only did I need to decompress after years of involvement and a grueling work week, time was needed to reassess the direction in which I wanted to go with my private practise.

Enough of that, though. Here I am, and hopefully with some degree of regularity on all things tech and business. read more »

In an effort to support regional business efforts, Microsoft® Community Connections is a new initiative which links organizations with the local business community – and Microsoft’s newest and highly anticipated operating system, Windows® 7. read more »

So I got a bit of a nudge (from a person I won’t name!) about my remiss posting habits in the blog….

What can I say? Several businesses, family, and more than a few civic commitments are all competing for this ever-elusive commodity we call Time. read more »