SMB Technologist
Experienced IT pros address the particulartechnical challenges faced by IT pros working for small and medium businesses.
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Using Shares to create accessible folder structures in Visual SourceSafe
Daryl Lucas explains how to use VSS Shares to ensure that everyone can find—and work on—their files, not just the person who set it up.
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Designing for collaboration in an established culture
Meg Greene continues her series on introducing tech into an SMB not exactly welcoming the changes.
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Changing the culture at my new company
Meg Greene starts a new series on her efforts at defining an internal communication strategy and rolling out various solutions at an Internet-challenged company.
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Setting Up Cisco ASA 5510 firewall, Part 1
Lauren Malhoit describes how to change our Juniper firewalls for a couple of Cisco ASAs.
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PCI DSS compliance -- what does it look like for a small business?
Mark Pimperton describes the technical and policy changes made by one UK SMB to comply with the credit card security standard.
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Install a WAMP server with VertrigoServ
Jack Wallen describes the process of installing the Apache port Vertrigo, so you can get a WAMP server running on your Windows machine.
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Install SugarCRM for powerful customer relationship management
SugarCRM is a standout in the crowded CRM market. This SugarCRM Community Edition installation tutorial gets you started down the road to better customer relationship management.
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How to install and use CodeIgniter on your server
Building web applications is becoming increasingly important to growing SMBs. CodeIgniter is a PHP framework that enables developers to build and test web applications faster.
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Optimizing native apps for mobile
In a survey that included 500 businesses that have less than 100 employees, 84% of them saw an increase in new business activity as a result of increased mobile marketing efforts. Here's how to build your mobile presence.
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Six points in the SMB IT value proposition
When you're talking to an IT pro about working for your small or midsize businesses, remember to highlight these advantages to being at a smaller shop.