originally published by BCBusinessOnline.ca Data backup, storage and protection are crucial to many businesses. Take away the computers – and their data – and your business may go limp. Cloud computing may have the answer to keeping your data, and your business, afloat.
Read more →Normally, I answer other people’s questions here, but since this is the second time I’ve forgotten (and then found) the method to do this, I figure I need to write this one down. 😉 Google Forms can be a journalist’s best friend. I’m going to use one
Read more →Ah, group work. You need to keep dates straight, understand who does what, work on only the latest files, and you do all this with phone calls and email – big piles of email. Or not.
Read more →originally published on cbc.ca/money/smallbusiness Business has always relied on collaboration. That fact drives the growth of online collaboration tools, but it’s an area where businesses need to tread warily.
Read more →originally published on cbc.ca/money/smallbusiness Andrew Jones had a simple goal: Develop an online tool to help his wife, Nicole Garton-Jones, run her Vancouver-based firm, Heritage Law. But his efforts catapulted him into the booming software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and spawned a business in its own right.
Read more →More lawyers are looking to the internet giant’s business tools for opportunities to lower their office expenses and increase their productivity. originally published in CBA PracticeLink SaaS (software-as-a-service) continues to grow, allowing tasks that once had to be done using desktop software – from accessing important data
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine Special interest groups pop up around all sorts of things, so it isn’t surprising that about 50 lawyers spent a recent weekend in Florida talking about how to run a law office using Apple Macintosh computers.
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine Drafting and editing legal documents in real time looks different when the co-authors aren’t in the same room. Just ask Brock Smith. “We log in through a secure portal using NetMeeting,” says the Vancouver-based partner in the technology and IP group
Read more →originally published in National Magazine “When I started my firm back in June of 2008,” Florida lawyer Jason Molder wrote in his blog, “one of the first things I did was begin looking into practice management applications. I knew that in order for me to even consider
Read more →originally published in PROFIT Magazine How one successful business uses low-cost technology to deliver speedy customer service — perfect for firms looking for a leg up in the downturn. Kyle Powell’s prior business experience made him determined to squeeze cost savings, accelerated workflows and competitive advantages out
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