Not long after I moved to Tucson 25 years ago I read Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees, this was about the same time I came to think of the contents of seed pods of mesquite trees as beans. It was much later that I learned about grinding flour from the beans. Sometimes we only understand what is by what…
Access Tucson – We Need This Resource
With the recent renewed attempt to destroy net neutrality, the continuance of local media public resources such as Access Tucson is more important than ever before.
Defining “Outside the Box”
People who think “outside the box” had painted the box pink and pinned a donkey tail on you before you ever realized you were in a box and started to climb out. “Just saying…” Okay, this is a bit hyperbolic. But truly innovative culture re-arrangers are few and far between. That is the reason that the…
Essential Information for Entrepreneurs: April 20 – 26, 2014
Some of the very best things I have found in my web travels this week of which I believe others should be aware: Blogging Made Simple Businesses need to have an actively updated site if that business is to be indexed by Google Search. Incorporating a blog into your site is the most straight-forward way…
Searching for Simple Blog Security Solutions
Running a business in the 21st Century presents complex challenges, and being a solopreneur or truly small business requires prioritization that would drive most business persons crazy. So the bad news is that nothing in today’s information-based society is simple. The good news is that we are all in this together. When the Heartbleed vulnerability…
Heartbleed and Your Site Security
Concerned about the Heartbleed computer vulnerability? Me too. What Is HeartBleed? As soon as I heard about the massive hole in Open SSL that leaves the majority of sites and blogs on the internet open to data grabs, I went to a popular computer tech site, TechCrunch, to find out what is what. The article…
News Apps and the Merger of Zite and Flipboard
Yesterday’s news of the purchase of Zite, the mobile device app owned by CNN, by Flipboard was a surprise to me as it no doubt was for other long-time fans of Zite. Flipboard buying Zite seemed backwards to us. Shouldn’t Zite be buying Flipboard? Shouldn’t the superior product buy the lesser product? Those kinds of…
5 Essential Business Tools for Today: Information for the Rest of Us
No this is not an Über-late Festivus post. The intention of this post is to serve the individuals and small businesses who must compete with mega-corporations in delivering products and services with no infrastructural support departments such as IT, Marketing, Development or HR. I specialize in helping individuals, sole proprietors to CEOs, get the information…
Co-Working Tucson
Spaces for co-working have existed as long as there have been cafes and libraries. The mix of activities that takes place at these public places overwhelms any attempt to define them by tugging at the edge of the boxes we try attempt use to simplify our understanding of them. The current mix of coworking spaces,…