Wanted: Fully Engaged Employees Years of layoffs and cutbacks have taken a toll on the workforce. Here's how to get everyone back on track. By Nancy Mann Jackson | April 26, 2010 Print Email Share Get the Mag Weekly Updates … Continued
There had been much chatter about a possible Palm acquisition- well HP finally pulled the trigger. Dan Formmer argues that it was a bad move- that there is no way to compete with the entrenched trio of Microsoft, Apple & … Continued
Written by Jim Kanir Over the years of working in software and high technology industries, I have sold, or supervised the sale of, many millions of dollars of services and equipment. Some sales were easy; others difficult. But last month, … Continued
Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil. This will make you think twice about your favorite presentation software. As excerpted from this Wired article on Edward Tufte’s famous discourse: At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style … Continued
M5 held a blood drive yesterday collecting 30 pints of blood and possibly saving 90 lives. A big thanks to all the employees who participated and especially to Brian Klansky who helped rally the troops into participating throughout the day. … Continued
I noticed that M5 was featured as one of the hosted PBX providers in this phone system buyer’s guide by Focus Research. This guide is a pretty nice overview for business users in the research stages of getting a phone … Continued
I found this post by way of the Daily Exhaust blog. It uses the classic book Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud to illustrate why the use of symbols and generic imagery is essential to User Interface design. The image on … Continued
Dan met with the crew of Gadgets & Games a Fox Business web show to show off some of M5′s latest tech. His segment focused around the idea that voice for business is no longer about just phones, but about … Continued
When I first heard that Salesforce had acquired Jigsaw I actually found it a bit of an eyebrow raiser. Ever since launch Jigsaw has had no shortage of controversy (see Jigsaw is a Really, Really Bad Idea by Michael Arrington). … Continued
As employees I agree with the assertion that we’re much more distracted than we’ve ever been. It’s also true that in many industries work has slowly crept into home life (something that’s always true at a startup). But does that … Continued