Digital Marketing Optimization: Effective Social Media and Web Presence
13 days ago, Martin DesRosiers @ FM
My most recent guest article on The Georgia Straight's online source www.straight.com discusses Digital Marketing Optimization in particular social media and your web presence. You can read the...
Blackberry, iPhone, Android Mobile Devices
26 days ago, Martin DesRosiers @ FM
I recently contributed another guest article to The Georgia Straight's online source www.straight.com talking about mobile devices for business users. You can read the full text below:
With...
Microsoft WPC 2010 Thoughts & Review
48 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
After a whirlwind week in Washington, DC for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2010, here are a couple of the key takeaways from the event:
My Predictions
I was pretty close in my...
Seven Ways to Create Moments of Magic
69 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
I had the opportunity to attend an EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization) event today where Shep Hyken (who also looks like Bruce Willis) was speaking about creating "Moments of Magic" for your...
Apple iPad: Thoughts and 5 Fantastic Uses
101 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
With the release today of the iPad in Canada, I thought I would write up a quick post to let my fellow Vancouver peers (and beyond) learn from the first three weeks I've spent with my iPad. Yes,...
The Golden Circle
116 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
This is a fantastic 18 minute presentation by Simon Sinek (thanks to Brad Bartsch for the link) for an inspirational model for leadership called the "Golden Circle". This explains why knowing your...
Inbox Zero - Part 1
123 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
Do you struggle with a cluttered inbox?
In a nutshell, Inbox Zero is the concept that you can quite happily operate with literally nothing in your e-mail inbox. There are many ways you can achieve...
Google Apps or Microsoft Online Services
143 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
I've been thinking a lot lately about the future of online messaging and collaboration cloud-based / software-plus-services / software-as-a-service solutions and how things might play out in the...
Microsoft Exchange Online Dominates On-Premise
168 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
I recently had the opportunity to work through a scenario with one of our Vancouver-based clients who was allured by the recently announced move by RIM to make Blackberry Enterprise Server...
Anything But the White Box
192 days ago, Martin DesRosiers @ FM
With hardware costs being at an all-time low, you are presented with a variety of options and vendors when looking for a new laptop, desktop, or server. Consumers tend to focus on the sticker price...
Book Report - Getting to Yes
198 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
Negotiating Agreements Without Giving In, 2nd Edition
by Roger Fisher and William Ury and Bruce Patton of the Harvard Negotiation Project (for the 2nd edition)
This book was an interesting read,...
Don't Believe the Foursquare Hype
202 days ago, Mark Romic @ FM
For those who know me, I spend a lot of my time keeping up with online trends. With so many new sites sprouting up seemingly overnight it’s not easy keeping up, that’s for sure. The...
How To Apply for a Tech Job
214 days ago, Martin DesRosiers @ FM
We've recently posted a number of IT positions and after spending the past month sifting through over 100+ job applications, it's painfully obvious that the majority of people in the tech...
The Power of Choice
19 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
One of the things I've been guilty of taking for granted lately is the power of choice. It's too easy, particularly in the world of IT, to become enamored with a particular technology and then...
Cloud Computing Offers Advantages for Small Business
45 days ago, Martin DesRosiers @ FM
I recently contributed a guest article to The Georgia Straight's online source www.straight.com talking about cloud computing and its benefits to small business environments. You can read the...
Predictions for Microsoft WPC 2010
59 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
We are just about to head out to the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, DC and I thought I would share a few preemptive thoughts about what we can expect to see this year...
The Challenges of Being an Independent IT Consultant
84 days ago, Martin DesRosiers @ FM
I decided to write this post after recently being interview by Joel McKay who writes for Business in Vancouver on an article that they were publishing on a one-man IT operation and the pros and...
Branding Your IT Department
103 days ago, Martin DesRosiers @ FM
Throughout my lifetime I’ve had the opportunity of being a member of various sports teams including rep soccer and competitive amateur rugby. Looking back at these sporting experiences there is...
How We Engage with Clients
118 days ago, Martin DesRosiers @ FM
Within the SMB market space, technology management has evolved dramatically over the last 5 years. Historically, companies have added full-time resources to manage and maintain their IT...
Cloud Computing: The Boiling Frog
138 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
Puzzling title, you say? For anyone not familiar with the anecdote of the "boiling frog", the premise is that a frog placed in boiling water will immediately jump out but a frog placed in cold...
Recapping Microsoft's Partner Connect Tour
167 days ago, Mark Romic @ FM
Last Thursday, March 18th, Microsoft continued its Partner Connect Tour here in Vancouver at the Fairmont Waterfront as the second stop of a four-part tour across Canada. The Tour brought out a...
What I Learned at The Art of Marketing
186 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
Yesterday I attended “The Art of Marketing” at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto. Over 1600 of Canada’s top marketers were present, all looking to learn something about the evolution of...
The Evolution of Outsourcing Relationships
193 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
I read a great article on on Crippling Mistakes IT Departments Make and it sparked the following thought:
There is an evolution happening in the outsourcing relationship between IT service...
What I Learned at Microsoft Hosting Days
201 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
I spent the day at the beautiful Loews Hotel Vogue in Montreal, QC for Microsoft Hosting Days. The room was filled with a variety of Microsoft partners including VARs, ISVs, Hosting Providers and...
Book Report - Get Smarter
211 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
I had the opportunity to read Seymour Schulich's "Get Smarter" en route (and back) from a recent HTG event in Canmore, AB. I gained a couple of interesting perspectives on life and business which...
What Happened to CDot Networks
222 days ago, Chris Day @ FM
Effective today (January 27th, 2010) the company I founded in 2002 as CDot Networks Inc. has officially been reborn as Fully Managed™ Inc. While we didn't keep the name change a big secret, we did...
