Adobe has started a campaign to promote the Adobe Document Cloud with the hashtag #ScaredSheetless. The 'paperless office' used to be the ideal business goal but it seems to have tapered off as some paper has become the norm. There’s a monster lurking in every office. A beast so terrifying, so grotesque, that few dare speak its name: paper. An astonishing 61% of … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2015
YouTube Red offers an ad-free experience at $9.99/month
YouTube announced their new option for watching the popular video streaming service ad-free will be available on October 28th to viewers in the US. YouTube Red lets you enjoy videos across all of YouTube without ads, while also letting you save videos to watch offline on your phone or tablet and play videos in the background, all for $9.99 a month. Your membership extends … [Read more...]
Installing open source status page software Cachet on CentOS 7
Maintaining uptime of your core IT services is an important part of internal customer service. Even with heavy investments into infrastructure, there will inevitably be downtime. Communicating that outage, planned or not, is also important to customer service. A status page can provide a consistent location for your users to check. Informed users will find if an issue is … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing explained
Crowdsourcing = Many hands makes for light work. Crowdfunding = Many wallets makes projects affordable. This infographic explains crowdsourcing and popular examples. By breaking problems down, more people can be involved. (Credit: BizMedia) … [Read more...]
Introducing our new forums – 404 Tech Support Talk
Over two years ago, I made 404 Tech Support comment-free. Since then, I have been able to focus on writing, improving the site functionality, and getting the PageRank up again after a Google algorithm had our traffic down to unsustainable numbers. Since then, our numbers are up. Comments on articles are great as a writer because it allows me to clarify points based on reader … [Read more...]