I was cleaning up my internet favorites the other day. One of the folders I have within my favorites is one called “Client databases,” which, oddly enough, are bookmarks to some of my clients’ online databases. Included in that folder are clients from as many as four years ago. Just for fun, I checked to …
I’ve been working with a client recently on consolidating all of their data into a single data management system. They have an association management system that is robust enough to manage just about every data set they have, but they haven’t centralized all of the data yet. As a first step in the process, we’ve …
Do you know how many sources of data you *really* have? Read More »
One of my (many) soapboxes is tryi to get people to back up their data and make sure it’s backed up. I’ve written about it here. So I was pleased to see Newsweek magazine writing about it recently here. But what was shocking was what the author wrote: “I’ve been a tech writer at NEWSWEEK …
All of my clients know that I'm a huge proponent of users groups. I like 'em so much, I actually co-founded one in the past, and I frequently encourage my clients to do the same with their association management system vendors. So I was very encouraged to learn about the SharePoint Users Group (www.thesug.org), a …
I’ve written about training in the past (see here). I was also recently quoted on monster.com about how to get the most out of software training. You can read that here.
James Michael-Hill, Web/Database Manager for the Utilities Telecom Council, posted a note to the Avectra Users Group, explaining how he has built a utility for allowing Avectra's netForum to communicate with Drupal, an open source content management system. This is very cool for a couple of reasons: Because James is part of the Avectra users group, …
The Power of the Users Group (and open source software) Read More »