So you’re on Facebook and you’ve taken the plunge and even signed up for a Twitter account.  You’re feeling good about yourself that you’re finally all caught up with this “social media” craze.  But then you start to see your online friends “checking in”.  You see “Places” in your iPhone Facebook app.  Should you be doing it?  Are there security and privacy concerns?  What does it all mean?

The two main players in this location based social media are Foursquare and Facebook Places.  Note there are location based services in just about every application you’re using these days from Twitter to Flickr but this post is focusing on these two “big” players. Read the rest of this entry

In the 7 years I’ve been selling our services, I can tell you the number one reason why companies switch to Acroment is because their current IT provider doesn’t call them back.  The first operational rule for any service business: be available to your customers.  If you’re going to provide a service in the first place why WOULDN’T you want to make yourself available?

We do not hide from our clients.  Ever.  We don’t hide behind email, voice mail or a contact form on our website.  I don’t have to look at our financials to know that we spend $2,500-3,000 per month on communication tools so that we are accessible to our clients.  All of our engineers have email enabled smart-phones. Our office phones, forward to our mobile phones. All voice mail messages are forwarded to our email. Why do we utilize this technology?  Quite simply so that our clients can reach us any day any time.  Even when employees are out of the office or on vacation, have the people in place to pick up the slack. Read the rest of this entry

As you know, we are giving away the NOOKcolor that we recently reviewed to one of our lucky Facebook Fans!  I have to say that it’s been a real pleasure doing these last couple of reviews and I’m really looking forward to doing more in the upcoming future!  Hmm… might there be more giveaways to our fans?  Stay tuned…

Without further adieu… The winner, of the Acroment NOOKcolor Giveaway is…

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NOOKcolor.  It’s an e-reader and it’s beautiful.  When I recently posted a review of the Amazon Kindle we got quite a response.  That makes me happy for a couple of reasons.  First, it tells me that people are reading the site and second it gives us some new ideas on what to write about next.  One of the clear message that we received was that folks wanted to get our take on additional e-readers on the market, specifically the NOOK by Barnes & Noble.  That discussion spawned the idea for the Acroment Color Nook Giveaway (be a Facebook fan by March 11th to be eligible).  So… before we give this thing away, we thought it’d be nice to tell you what you can win.  Without further adieu, I present to you my review of the NOOKcolor.

Note that since I’ve previously reviewed the Kindle I’ll be comparing quite a bit between the two devices.  If you haven’t you may want to read that post.  Also note that I’d previously referred to this device as the Color Nook when in fact it’s presented as the NOOKcolor.  A brand distinction that this marketing guy appreciates. Read the rest of this entry