MADISON – I feel like Julius truly cares about me. He often sends me stock tips. Brittney cares, too. She passes along ideas for how to buy prescription drugs on the cheap. Octavio? He’s my main man when it comes to debt reduction. Ursula seems...
Three years after selling to Macromedia the company he founded with his brother Jeremy, JJ Allaire is back at the helm of a start-up venture, this time offering a product for the user side of the Web equation....
When senior management use phrases like “best practice” or “world class,” I’ve seen employees cringe! While this may be no more than an observation of a specific management team, I’ve seen the same reaction in every organization where those topics come up. Unless you want...
MADISON – It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Wisconsin’s high-tech sector suffered through a bad year in 2002. The same was true across the United States as the shock waves of the “dot.com” crash, investor retrenchment and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,...
MILWAUKEE - The benefits of switching to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) was the focus of Einnovate’s monthly meeting at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. Nearly 100 attendees listened to service providers and users share their experiences with VoIP....
Few topics of this newsletter hit a nerve as sharply as social networking has. In fact, I get more mail when I write on this topic than I seem to receive on all other topics combined. (Something I suppose I should keep in mind when...
The switch from Telecom to VoIP (voice over internet protocol) has been a long time coming. For those of us who work with Telecom, we have been nervously looking over our shoulder as VoIP technology gains momentum. If you are like me, you may have...
GREEN BAY – Lisa Scribner isn’t worried about attracting good workers to Procter & Gamble’s manufacturing plant in Green Bay. Convincing the company to invest in the machinery, equipment and technology used by those workers is another matter....
People used to abandon online shopping carts because they didn’t understand how online shopping works. Now, it's because they do....
A majority of economists and corporate executives believe that globalization is good for America overall despite the significant disruption it causes. But there is a substantial difference between thoughtfully embracing global free trade and assuming a laissez faire attitude towards how this trend affects businesses,...