Commentary

In a bluntly worded message to Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and other powers that be, a healthcare practitioner from Texas is urging the federal government to tread carefully on electronic health records. The road to EHRs, writes dentist Darrell Pruitt, is potholed...

A number of people are dismissing Tommy Thompson's presidential chances, but Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still has a hunch the former Wisconsin governor could make some hay in the 2008 Iowa caucuses. Still, a former political reporter, covered the caucuses in three presidential elections, and...

Search engine marketing campaigns are not meant to be created and left alone, they must be actively managed, according to Tech/Know columnist Troy Janisch. In fact, "SEM" campaigns should be managed and adjusted as assiduously as investment portfolios, Janisch writes. ...

Municipal governments have to become more dynamic as costs go up for services and people tire of tax increases, observes columnist James Carlini. That starts with not viewing services, old or new, as just another "cost of doing business." ...

Having given the "thumbs down" to Cingular's 8125 smart phone in previous Demo Letter columns, Chris Shipley was invited by a representative of Palm to try an alternative - Treo 700w. What was her verdict? Read this edition of Demo Letter to find out...

How well prepared is your business to deal with the changing demands of the labor force? If you don't have a strategy for retaining and attracting workers in all three generations represented in today's workforce, you may not be able to withstand these winds of...

The need for patent reform is clear in light of recent challenges to the stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, opines Guest Columnist Grady Frenchik, an attorney with Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek. He outlines several reforms, including one to thwart the dreaded...

The new products and solutions of 67 companies were on display during the recent DEMOfall 2006 event, raising the bar for the Winter 2007 conference. In this brief edition of DEMO Letter, columnist Chris Shipley points readers to recaps of the event's media coverage, to...

For a variety of reasons, your domain portfolio may not be as impenetrable as you think. In the latest edition of IP Online, columnist Deborah Wilcox provides several principles for domain name protection, and she reminds chief executives to conduct trademark searches to find out...