Earth Hour trades wiki for Yammer collaboration tool
The enterprise social network allows the eight-person team to streamline communications and share information more quickly among hundreds of volunteers around the globe.
Small Business Matters
Long-time small-business advocate Heather Clancy translates the latest SMB trends -- from e-commerce technologies to cost-effective applications, hardware, collaboration tools and cloud services that improve SMB efficiency.
Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist specializing in transformative technology and innovation
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Drobo integrates cloud storage option with SMB storage devices
Drobo's new relationship with Barracuda Networks provides small businesses with basic file sharing and online backup options.
Mobile app makes it simpler to manage events
If your small business hosts lots of meetings or seminars, it may want to look at new features in Constant Contact's EventSpot offering.
5 tools for sharpening your local marketing edge
Small businesses find most new customers through word of mouth. Here are some new or updated services for amplifying those voices and offering targeted deals.
HyperOffice offers simple, mobile collaboration suite
Latest edition of the cloud service adds new social features, such as the ability to 'follow' the progress being made on certain projects.
Control your office door lock from cloud, smartphone
If you forget to lock up when you leave or don't want to leave keys behind, SimpliciKey can help.
Intuit optimizes QuickBooks Online for Apple iPad
The mobile app offers rich resources for creating invoices, managing customers and generating financial reports.
Xerox: Multifunction printers are center of cloud, digital document ecosystem
The high-tech giant's new ConnectKey platform embeds security, enables direct connections to cloud services and custom workflow apps.
Intuit's latest service hooks up small businesses with accountants
The tax software giant's latest service is an online portal where small-business owners can find qualified CPAs.
Most common cause of SMB downtime? The answer may surprise you
While natural disasters have a way of convincing small businesses to reconsider their backup and recovery plans, human error and system failures are far more common.