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Your Company's Social Media Policy

Chris Chase — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100

The time to implement a social media policy is now.

Your social media policy outlines for employees your companies guidelines or principles for communicating in the online world. Your company should have a communications policy in place that spell out your expectations for phone and email, it’s important that you add social media and online site usage to this policy.

Here is an excerpt from our employee manual in regards to Electronic Privacy. Feel free to use the informatiRead More...

10 New Year Resolutions

Chris Chase — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

We grew a lot in 2009. This is a great thing but it has also exposed a lot about our company that we want to improve on. It's pretty obvious what we need to work on to support the growth we expect in 2010 and beyond.

While this isn't a complete list, here are 10 of the things we are going to focus and improve on this year. They are in no particular order:

Shift and define company roles and accountability.
Resolve the quoting and proposal bottle neck.
Improve prRead More...

14 Tips to Work Your Social Media Rig

Chris Chase — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

DTi has had the pleasure of working with David Mann for over 10 years. David owns Alta Log Homes in Upstate NY. Alta is a leading manufacturer of Log Homes. David is an expert in building Green, Energy Star dream homes and a great guy.

His website is http://www.altaloghomes.com.

We set him up with the Ultimate Social Media Rig a few months ago along with some coaching services to get him started. He's been pretty religious about posting and using it.

He sent mRead More...

The Ultimate Social Media Rig

Chris Chase — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Recently, I was asked to speak at a breakout session called "Jumpstart Social Media for your IT Business" at the ConnectWise PSA 2009 Partner Summit. What a great event, we learned so much for our MSP practice, we are still implementing!

Some of the power point slides from the breakout show our Project Plan for rolling out our "Ultimate Social Media Rig". We promised to get the project plan posted on the site. Rather than post just screen shots, we made it easier for you to get staRead More...

Video, in my Magazine?

Christopher Lynk — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100

It's more likely than you think. This month, video advertisements will be showing up for the first time ever in traditional paper magazines.

It may seem like something out of The Jetson's or Harry Potter; Entertainment Weekly will incorporate video into their magazine. Magazines are certainly no safe-haven from advertisements, but never before have consumers ever had to deal with video in their paper medium.

Using similar technology used in Read More...

When Data Collection Goes Too Far

Christopher Lynk — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100

In a world where we are always connected, always wired into the system, it's incredible to think how much information about us is being broadcasted into the void. Everyone's doing it; Taco Bell wants you to call them toll free to chat about your experience, Facebook wants your full name, as opposed to a fake screen name, Microsoft wants to gather information about your computer every time something crashes. Is our privacy really being invaded? We'll talk about privacy, and tRead More...