Technology Tips for Small Business [Kindle Edition]

Steven G. Atkinson (Author)

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Product Description

Technology has changed the way we do business. Once all a business needed was a telephone and a Fax machine. Now if you aren't on the Internet, you are thought to be ancient. Small Business owners and managers have enough problems without worrying about technology. These tips written by a Telecommunications professional, with over 25 years of experience, can help assist them. Included are over 55 tips and information on Telecommunications, Cell Phones, VoIP, Security and Other Stuff.

About the Author

Steven G. Atkinson is a technology consultant based on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunication field. One thing he hates is for a business to purchase technology that doesn't fit into their business plan or processes. His mission is to prevent that from happening. You can visit him at tt4sb.com.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 92 KB
• Publisher: Steven G. Atkinson (March 1, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0013Z9Q42
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Technology Tips for Small Business, October 19, 2008

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Edward M. Janes "El Zatoichi" (Toms River NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Technology Tips for Small Business (Paperback)

I would give the content of this book a 2 and the proofreading a 1. More than just a handful of times there were grammatical errors that made the book look poor. I can forgive a few errors, but there were dozens, which is annoying while reading. However, not being an English grammar book, I overlook that and concentrate on technical reviews.

This is a collection of blog postings from a personal blog written by the author. And a lot of the tips are not technology related, such as a couple sections that go over proper business etiquette with emails, including what the subject line is and what BCC does. I don't think it's making a bold statement that everyone knows what these two features are. Another section is titled, "Cell phone users should not talk during a storm." I don't see how either are technology tips for small businesses and are simply common sense observations for everyone.

Over half of the tips are telephone related, betraying the title. Small businesses are concerned with telephone use obviously but not so much as to ignore those other essential technical needs of small businesses such as remote users, workstations and laptops, database administration, server room set up, etc. These are things hardly mentioned at all and are also major concerns for small business IT professionals.

As a small business IT administrator, I found no new content in this book that would help me tackle the responsibilities of my job. There are great differences in the IT deployment of small and large businesses including scale, budget, professional versatility, and this book, despite the title does not mention any of this.

Since it is a collection of blog postings, the tips are one to three pages long, set up almost like chapters, with a blank page separating each tip. The book is 180 pages of content, though 25 pages are blank, being space filler between the tips. Therefore you only get 155 pages. And the font is way too large with space between every paragraph. So, it's probably about 100 pages of content, and that about half is telephone related, there is just not enough diversity in this book for me to recommend someone else to read.