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Exempt social media experts from due diligence at your own risk.

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:21:00 GMT

When I think about helping my clients succeed and protecting their time & money in an sea of IT, web and marketing choices, what concerns me more than all the self anointed social media experts are the ones who proclaim that investing in social media marketing guarantees success. Guaranteed success? Really?

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Dotnetnuke 6 is Here: The leading web content & application management platform gets better & better

blogs@parkview.com — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:32:00 GMT

The DotNetNuke 6 Web Content Management Platform delivers a simplified user interface, cloud services integration, and a new Microsoft SharePoint Connector. The new release speeds web site design and delivery, simplifies content updates, and provides compatibility with previous versions of DotNetNuke.

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Microsoft Office 365 Is Here

blogs@parkview.com — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:05:00 GMT

Microsoft's hosted collaboration and productivity suite is officially out of beta and was formally launched on June 28. Office 365 makes for killer collaboration and has an unparalleled feature set, especially with integrated Office Professional Plus 2010.

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Evaluating and Selecting Cloud Based Web Solutions

blogs@parkviewtech.com — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:58:00 GMT

The “cloud” is a buzzword for the public Internet dating back to the late 1990s. Services delivered via the Internet used to be called web application services, and the vendors were known as application service providers or ASPs. They’re called “cloud services” or “software as a service” (SaaS) now, but the basic meaning remains the same. With cloud solutions all the application software, databases, servers, etc. are provided by the vendor and reside at the vendor’s data center.

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Eight Essentials for Successful Internet Strategy

blogs@parkviewtech.com — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:19:00 GMT

The era of pushing content out via websites & e-mail newsletters and hoping for good results is history. Successful businesses and non-profits are using the Internet strategically to target and engage their audiences across a range of online experiences, from websites to e-mail, social networking to video, and traditional offline marketing to mobile marketing. This calls for smart, creative Internet strategy and hard hitting, cost effective tactics.

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Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP Pro SP2 support ended July 13, 2010. What should your organization do?

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:10:00 GMT

It depends on your unique network & IT situation. Consider a professional, hard target audit of your PC/desktop and network server hardware & software with documented recommendations. The end of support for Windows 2000 is no big surprise. But Windows XP Pro SP2? That may be a problem for many small to mid-size organizations. Going from XP Pro SP2 to SP3 is almost an operating system level upgrade. And where does Windows 7 fit into all this?

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