NOTE: Since this post was originally created, Dropbox experienced a serious security issue for a small amount (less than 1%) of users.  The issue has been addressed and corrected.
Full details can be found here.

With one of the questions on our yearly Customer Satisfaction Survey we asked our customers for suggestions for blog topics that they’d like to read about.  Several customers indicated they’d like to know more about “The Cloud” and specifically applications such as Dropbox.  You asked for it and here it is!

(While this may sound like a commercial for Dropbox, I assure you that Acroment is not getting compensated in any way for this post.  In addition, I only review products that I’ve used.)

Dropbox is an application that allows you to access your files from multiple computers, devices (such as your smart phone) and websites.  You no longer have to email files to yourself, carry a jump drive or portable hard drive or have multiple copies of a file.  Sounds pretty good right?  Wait… it gets better.  It’s completely FREE.   Read the rest of this entry

If you are like me, you have your social media accounts like LinkedIn and Facebook set to send you an email message when you receive a notification or message on the website. For example, a new friend request from Facebook would appear as an email on my gmail account.

Included in these email messages are links back to the social media site to visit the request.

My Tip: Don’t click on those links!

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The concept of “social media” is a difficult one for some folks to grasp.  My wife (who up until recently wasn’t even part of the Facebook crowd) tells me all the time that I’m wasting my time with this stuff.

• Tweeting? Who cares… no one’s reading your stuff…
• Facebook? It’s nothing but noise…
• Blogging? Why are you keeping an online diary that no one reads?

I’ll admit that sometimes it’s pretty difficult to determine that VALUE of social networking (especially from a business perspective) but I recently had 3 concrete example of social media at work that I wanted to share. Read the rest of this entry