I’m a firm believer that you can either work hard or work smart. One place where this becomes extremely important is when it comes to online marketing. With online marketing you can spend a lot of time and money performing trial and error or you can look at what your competitors are doing, assume they’ve […]
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I was recording a demo today of the new picture password feature in Windows 8 and Windows RT on my surface tablet today and I think it has a virus. Take a look at the youtube video below and let me know if you think it can be cleaned. Best viewed in full screen so
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Today at Applied Innovations, we announced that we have officially launched Windows Server 2012 Beta cloud servers on top of a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster! This is all really cool because it’s the first time we’ve been able to publicly discuss the amount of time we’ve been working with Microsoft around Windows Server 2012
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With web hosting, like many business niches, it’s not uncommon for a company to maintain multiple brands. A lot of times companies will run multiple domains with sub sites setup for SEO and be very niche focused. In web hosting, it’s also not uncommon for a company to perform marketing tactics like run their own
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Interestingly enough, it seems I’ve had the same conversation 4 or 5 times in the last couple months. More or less it all starts the same way: “What do you think of the acquisition of X?” or “Are you worried about Y entering the cloud/hosting market?”. I believe if we look far enough back at
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I have a small beta tank on my desk (it used to have a couple of those Brookstone frogs in it, but they’ve long moved on) and recently my Beta decided it was time to visit ‘the other side’. So I thought this would be a great opportunity to demonstrate my keen abilities of ‘Office
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Last year I attended the San Francisco WordCamp because I wanted to see what the Core WordPress team had to say about WordPress Hosting on Windows. Sadly, it was my experience there that they’re still not very Windows friendly. I personally believe it’s one of two reasons: There’s still this mentality that Microsoft is Evil
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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and things have just been insanely busy at Applied Innovations, but I wanted to send out a compliments to Dave Ramsey for his book: EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches For anyone that’s in a management position, running your own business and struggling to
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SPAM is an interesting topic. There are several different definitions of SPAM and depending on who you talk to, you’ll get any of a number of explanations of what SPAM is or is not. At Applied Innovations, our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) defines SPAM very clearly and that it’s not tolerated here at Applied Innovations:
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Recently, I was invited to give a presentation at the Orlando DotNetNuke Usersgroup around DotNetNuke website performance. The first tidbit of information I provided was that when you’re running on a Windows Cloud Server or Windows VPS Server or a Managed Windows Server, you always to make backups of your configuration before making sweeping changes.
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