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tech tips: 10 steps to optimize SharePoint performance

Eric Shupps over at Network World has published a nice article on optimizing Sharepoint performance.

Here’s the link for the full text of the article, but to summarise, his ten points cover the following:

- Step 1: Separate user and database traffic

- Step 2: Isolate search indexing

- Step 3: Adjust SQL parameters

- Step 4: Defragment database indexes

- Step [...]

quick pro tip of the day #37

You’d think this would be obvious by now, but how about this:  if you’re spending money on a TV advert and sending me off to your website for further details then how about making the offer/product prominent on the home page?  Better still, give me a landing page specific to the product!

Not mentioning any names [...]

ten tips for entrepreneurs from Digg's Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg spoke this week at Webstock in New Zealand.  The following are his top ten tips for web entrepreneurs.  Simple, sensible advice.

[hat tip to Read Write Web for the story].

1: Just Build It: You don’t need anyone’s approval and in fact, you probably won’t get it, so don’t [...]

‘ultimate’ guide to Google Reader

Whilst we’re not usually given to throwing around words like ‘ultimate’ too lightly here at Edge Nation HQ, this extended guide to getting the most out of Google Reader from the Social Media Guide is certainly comprehensive!  I’m personally a very regular user of Google Reader, finding it an excellent time-saver and a very efficient [...]

struggling with social media? Maybe Telstra can help!

Yeah, we never thought we’d hear those words in the same sentence either, but it turns out Telstra are very much on the ball as far as trying to get the best out of social media channels for their business.

As a part of this effort they’ve been training up their staff in everything from the [...]

glossary of terms for online / social media

If you’re lost in the terminology, never mind the application, of the real-time / social media / new media / future technology / you-name-it space, then you might be interested in our glossary of terms.

Newly harvested from various sources, with a slight touch of irreverence (see if you can spot where), hopefully you’ll find it [...]