http://timsteeves.com Software, Web, Business, Life Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:53:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've all heard of the horrible boss. There was even a recent movie that featured three awful managers who make their employees’ lives miserable. The part that stood out for me was how the horrible bosses seemed to have flourishing businesses and staff who worked hard and produced good quality ... http://timsteeves.com/2011/10/13/corporate-culture-changing-world While working with My Yoga Online - a top yoga and wellness streaming video website – I have been given discounts and free stuff that I can give away on my blog. The current deal is simple: if you like them on facebook, you get a free 1 week unlimited membership with ... http://timsteeves.com/2011/09/20/free-unlimited-membership-yoga-online If you have been tracking conversations around social media for business, you have undoubtedly come across people talking about Social CRM. Companies like Intuit, Procter & Gamble and Citigroup have embraced it in a big way and it seems like the natural next step to Customer Relationship Management information systems. According ... http://timsteeves.com/2011/08/05/social-crm-digital-management-platform Forget toys – today, whoever has the most data wins. Recently, I was meeting with a couple of executives from the Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS), when a rep from their largest funder, the Canadian International Developing Agency (CIDA) dropped in for a visit. The topic of the conversation was ... http://timsteeves.com/2011/07/29/great-data-great-responsibility Is it worth getting on the social media bandwagon? Besides Angry Birds and Farmville, what's the point? You've probably heard this before: social media can help your business reach new, untapped customers. It's true. I won't get into the details of why in this article, but according to Nielsen, at ... http://timsteeves.com/2011/05/04/yes-social-media-is-for-you-too 1: Open Workbench Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project. Download Open Workbench 2: Redmine Redmine is a flexible project management web application. ... http://timsteeves.com/2010/10/19/top-11-open-source-project-managment-tools At least, that’s the findings of a recent survey carried out amongst firms in both Britain and the US (sorry they didn't survey Canada on this one). A number of businesses are set to increase their digital marketing budgets by about 17 per cent this year. An online research ... http://timsteeves.com/2010/02/09/online-marketing-may-become-compulsory Colour has a profound effect on how we feel both mentally and physically. Even as far back as Ancient Egypt colour was used as a tool for healing. Below are some emotional associations that we tend to have with certain colors. These are important to keep in mind in order ... http://timsteeves.com/2010/01/31/colour-psychology-the-mood-of-colours Brain Imaging The first high-resolution map of the human cortical network generated by scientists using a new type of brain imaging known as diffusion imaging. (Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21042/page1/) Smartphones This is the year that smartphones took off with the application market - becoming worth over $1 billion. Everyone and his dog began to ... http://timsteeves.com/2009/12/23/a-year-in-review-2009 Implementation of ERP solution involves a hefty budget with long time and conscientious efforts for customization. With the recession taking a notch out of many budgets and a often several years of development under their belt,  open source ERP solutions have started to emerge as feasible alternative to the big ... http://timsteeves.com/2009/12/22/top-10-open-source-erp-software