January, 2012

2011 was the year that most small businesses discovered ‘The Cloud’. Because there’s still a fair amount of fuzziness (technical term) around what ‘The Cloud’ is, here’s a brief explanation. In essence, working in the cloud means using the Internet to access tools...

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Kicking things for 2012 we have a guest blog from Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation and StartUp Britain. A record 480,000 new businesses were created over the past year (source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/8975769/Resurgent-self-employment-soars-to-75...

Guest post from Francesca Geens, who runs Digital Dragonfly , offering practical IT and tech assistance for tiny businesses (typically 1-5 PCs) across the UK. Working with both Mac and PC clients, Digital Dragonfly specialises in business email, cloud solutions, mobile working and general best-practice...

After a break over the Christmas period we're continuing our series of guest posts from Microsoft Advertising on how to get started with pay-per-click advertising. In our previous adCenter post, an introduction to Microsoft Advertising adCenter , I gave you the basics of adCenter and how you can use...

Today's post is courtesy of Ewan Dalton, who heads up the technology group within Microsoft UK’s partner business, and who also publishes a “Tip o’ the Week” to several thousand people, covering many aspects of productivity and technology. Previous tips are also published onto...