Archive for September, 2007
Advantive Launches SharePoint Portal Server 2007 for Tribal IT Firm
Monday, September 10th, 2007(Seattle) Advantive developed an online collaboration tool for a leading Tribal IT firm POWTEC. POWTEC’s goal was to boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities online.
Advantive has been working with SharePoint and Oracle Portal for the past five years. We and our clients have found immediate benefits in initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as […]
Tech companies wake up to traffic nightmare
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Traffic across Lake Washington is a daily nightmare. This is why Advantive embraces alternative commute strategies like public transport, carpooling, and telecommuting. IT workers do work with their minds, and the capital they use in the form of servers, networks, and software, is portable to anywhere in the world. I have been saying for years, if […]
JupiterResearch Shows Only 2 Perecent of Surfers Click Through
Monday, September 3rd, 2007The ole saying goes in the offline advertising world- “I know half of my advertising is working, I just don’t know which half!”. In the online advertising world that saying would need to be modified to state- “I know that 98% of my advertising dollars are wasted, I am just happy the 2% of it gets me […]
Broadband spurs ‘techno-commuters’ rise
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Financial Times
A burgeoning breed of ‘techno-commuters’ is using fast, newly affordable broadband connections to hold down city jobs without sacrificing rural isolation.
Homeworkers, defined as “people who work mainly in their own home, or in different places using home as a base”, made up 11 per cent of the total workforce in 2005, according to the […]
First steps to a “do not mail” list for junk mailers?
Saturday, September 1st, 2007Few things annoy me more than my daily dose of junk direct mail. It makes up 80% of the volume of my personal and business mail, and there is little recourse to stop it - there is not a postal equivalent to the “Do Not Call” list. But here’s a start: an organization called EcoLogical Mail that helps […]