THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

One of the most tireless people I know is Eric Ligman who is the Small Business Manager out of the US Central Region.  Tonight I got an email saying that they've opened up a MSSMALLBIZ blog.

Kewl!  

We are happy to announce that the MS Small Business Community has launched the third component of our Community, the new Community Blog.  Be sure to check it out and watch for posts from our team rolling out in the future containing additional tips, tricks, thoughts, information, etc.

Now while the Mssmallbiz yahoogroup and the Mssmallbiz community site is not “SBS” specific, Eric and his crew are VERY SBSized and if you have any questions or issues or clarifications especially in licensing, he's your man for that.

I'm going to sound like a broken record again, but RSS feeds in Newsgator or your favorite RSS reader are indeeds the way to keep up on all this stuff.  And now we have another community resource for the Small Business marketplace!  Eric and the Mssmallbiz site, in my opinion, point out what we've known all along, we can be agile down here and provide services quickly and easily.  Eric and his group started out with the Sharepoint site on an externally hosted location to support “non domain” users, then his group added the yahoogroups to support the communication, and now the blog as an additional communication tool.  Other than the web site, there isn't a huge budget involved in the yahoogroup or the blog technology.  He showcases exactly what an agile small business can also do to get the word out.

Speaking of blogs, there's another one that I spotted yesterday of interest.  The Small Business Trends blog talks about the “anti trends” of the year.  One of the bullet points caught my eye:  Technology Convergence: He sees bundling between broadband, wireless and other communications technologies. Voice, wireless, Tivo, messaging -- they all will converge. You'll retrieve cell phone messages through your computer, and computer messages through your cell phone.  We're seeing more of that in the newsgroups, of people coming in and asking “what version of smart phone did you buy?“  Another trend I spotted [and that we SBSers are already reacting to] is a post in the blog Microsoft Monitor that indicates more and more small and medium businesses are having MACs around.  What have we SBSers done as a result?  Recommended calling our domain names .lan and sending more and more people to Eriq Neale's site.  Don't forget to also visit SeanDaniel.com's site for his mobility tips.