Rethinking Hosted Blogs

After the Blogger outage that ended earlier today caused my most recent updates to the look and feel of the blog to be lost, I have to say I'm giving second thought to this whole hosted blog thing. Just a few days ago I was reading about Wordpress.com getting hacked and thinking "there but for the grace of God go I." Apparently, I spoke too soon.

A Quick Look At Microsoft Office 365 Beta

The following article was removed from the blog during the Blogger outage. I'm reposting it for the benefit of those who missed it previously.

I had the opportunity to sign up for the Microsoft Office 365 beta program over the weekend. This is "Office-in-the-cloud" with SharePoint thrown in for good measure. I was curious to see if Office 365 had anything to offer from a business intelligence standpoint, so I put it to the test. Warning: you may find this a little geekier than the business-professional-oriented content I normally post on this site.

Blog Updates

If you've been here before you'll note a change in the title. Having finished my "primer" posts I decided it was time to drop "primer" from the blog title. I plan to shift the focus of the blog toward small to medium businesses (SMB) and to post a bit more.than I have recently. I'll still try as much as possible to "take the mystery out" of the subject matter. Also, I intend to seek out opportunities to monetize the blog in a way that is consistent with the content and, hopefully, useful to you (no pizza ads if I can help it). Finally, I'm working on compiling the "primer" posts into an eBook which I'll make available for download. Stay tuned.