In honor of Martin Luther King…The Gettysburg Address

On January 18, 2010

In honor of Martin Luther King…The Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner commented on what is now considered the most famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln. In his eulogy on the slain president, he called it a “monumental act.” He said Lincoln was mistaken that “the world will little note, nor long [...]


On January 18, 2010

Plenty of Room at the Inn for Hotel CRM Systems

Pick a room -- any room. There are lots of choices of places to stay for travelers in the U.S. In fact, there are 4.4 million guestrooms across the country, according to the American Hotel and Lodging Association. And that's a problem. Competitors in the hospitality sector need some kind of an edge to gain new customers and, even more importantly, to keep their current customers coming back.


On January 18, 2010

E-Commerce Data Security 2010: Learning From 2009’s Debacles

2009 was the first year since 2005 that the number of data breach incidents recorded actually dropped. If that makes you feel a little more secure -- there is a counter side. The same site reports on personal records that have been exposed: 220 million records in 2009 as compared with 35 million in 2008.


On January 18, 2010

Leveraging the Small Business Web for Your New Business

Have you just started a new business and have no idea what tools are out there to use? Well, many people have asked the same thing and these last few years have brought us some great hosted web applications that serve various purposes like invoicing, accounting, project management, lead generation, email marketing, etc. The only [...]


On January 18, 2010

A/B Test Case Study: Single Page vs. Multi-Step Checkout

This post is contributed by Janis Lanka, who manages front-end development for Elastic Path Software. A little while back, I wrote on Elastic Path’s Grep Community blog about our decision to change to a two-page checkout process. We piloted this checkout process on the Hockey Canada Store with the main goals being to reduce abandonment and [...]


On January 17, 2010

Credit Card Tips on 1099-Misc

Where do I put Credit Card Tip earnings on a 1099-misc form? Do I include in Box 7 or does it go in box 3, other income?


On January 17, 2010

Credit Card Tips on 1099-Misc

Where do I put Credit Card Tip earnings on a 1099-misc form? Do I include in Box 7 or does it go in box 3, other income?


On January 17, 2010

The Elasticity of the Cloud

Today's podcast discussion focuses on the economic benefits of cloud computing -- of how to use cloud-computing models and methods to control IT cost by better supporting application workloads. As we've been looking at cloud computing over the past several years, a long transition is under way, of moving from traditional IT and architectural method to this notion of cloud.


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