New York City’s construction industry is getting a makeover. Instead of cosmetics, a haircut and new clothes, its using technology to cut costs, save time and reduce risks.

How Necessity Is the Mother of Creating a Business

by Geri Stengel on Aug 16, 2012 - 12:20am

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In 1995, Julie Azuma, the mother of a newly diagnosed autistic daughter, went from store to store, trying to find the educational materials her daughter needed. Along the way, she’d joined a listserve -- remember those? -- for parents of autistic children so she knew that other parents were as frustrated as she was.

What Everybody Needs to Know About Online Marketing

by Geri Stengel on May 1, 2012 - 12:20am

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What you don’t know can hurt you, especially if what you don’t know leaves your business back in the 20th century while your customers are well on their way into the 21st.

In that case, you are losing opportunities to grow, to reduce costs, and to build customer loyalty.

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Did Google Lose Sight Of Its Own Motto?

by Geri Stengel on Jun 21, 2011 - 12:07am

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Imagine: Waking up to find that your access to Google products has been severed … forever. Google search is dead. No access to Google docs. No gmail. You’ve put your eggs in the Google basket and now they’re all broken.

It happened to my colleague June 8.

Have Your Feet On The Ground When Looking At The Cloud

by Geri Stengel on Jun 9, 2011 - 12:14am

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As I said in The Cloud: Not As Airy As You Thought, cloud computing is a boon to startup nonprofits and businesses as well as those that are growing.

Tagged Products, Smartphones Offer New Business and Fundraising Possibilities

by Geri Stengel on Oct 26, 2010 - 7:52am

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This is one of three blogs about the future of tech-enabled business models. Check out Tech Knowledge Will Expand Markets, Services of Entrepreneurs and Nonprofits and Break Down Walls to Build Creativity With New Technology to read what else is in store.

It started with GPS: You can track where you are and where you want to be because a device in your hand or your car is communicating – networked – with a satellite.

That brings us to yet another section of the McKinsey report on 10 Tech-Enabled Business Trends. This one is called "The Internet of Things."

Break Down Walls to Build Creativity With New Technology

by Geri Stengel on Sep 23, 2010 - 8:00am

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This is one of three blogs about the future of tech-enabled business models. Check out Tech Knowledge Will Expand Markets, Services of Entrepreneurs and Nonprofits and Tagged Products, Smartphones Offer New Business and Fundraising Possibilities to read what else is in store.

Out with the old organization chart, in with the wiki-world. That's the gist of the first three of 10 tech-enabled business trends, according to a new McKinsey report.

Tech Knowledge Will Expand Markets, Services of Entrepreneurs and Nonprofits

by Geri Stengel on Sep 16, 2010 - 10:01am

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This is one of three blogs about the future of tech-enabled business models. Check out Break Down Walls to Build Creativity With New Technology and Tagged Products, Smartphones Offer New Business and Fundraising Possibilities to read what else is in store.

Think back to the technology that has come and gone in a few decades: VCRs, diskettes, cassettes, Walkman CD players, CDs for that matter, phones that only transmitted voices ... well, you get the drift.

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Anatomy of a Successful RFP

by Guest Blogger on Jun 19, 2009 - 12:50pm

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Looking to redesign your website or upgrade your agency’s branding and putting out a Request for Proposals (RFP)? Make sure you get the best consultant you can by making your RFP the best it can be. Consider this list of what to include gleaned from our 17 years of responding to RFPs.

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