Interview with Bo Burlingham - author small giant of technology and the development of interaction

Next week the Office 365 be a sponsor for Inc. events GrowCo Conference in New Orleans, La. On Wednesday, 7 March, 1: 40 CST, we delighted to take part in a Twitter interview (on the @ Smallgiantsbuzz;) @ office365 (Ch) with Bo Burlingham, author of the small Giants: companies choose, be great instead of big during the session "Networking with purpose" by the little giant communityplace. We thought it would be a good opportunity to talk with Bo and his take on how technology affects relations between small business owners, customers and colleagues to get. Check out the interview below just remains for more information on what in the business, how technology marching forward.

Office 365 : how see you change the value of the technology network, like people?
Bo Burlingham: Technology has indisputably made it possible, much more networking with a lot more people do, but I don't think it necessarily raised the value of networking at all. Networking the value - online or offline - depends on two things: the quality of connections that make and learn the importance of what. Honestly I don't see a lot of time Twitter wasted on trivial networking via Facebook, etc. I'm skeptical that the connections that learned it can be there and things have nearly the impact on your business or your life as what by networking in person man. Which online networks can do is to opportunities remind you, that you can track offline.

Office 365: How you think the development of technology will affect small businesses in their interactions with customers?
Bo Burlingham: The new tools open opportunities and means of communication which are not of course. But technology changes not the basic dynamics of the business. Great customer service is now, since always and forever about the development of large, close, long-term relationships with customers. Torn businessmen use the new tools of technology, to make that better. Not-so-smart business-people will use to bombard customers with information to which they want neither does not care.

Office 365: how have emerging technologies and interfaces (everything from Twitter to tablets) your readership to reach small business affected you?
Bo Burlingham: Thanks to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and simple old E-mail, I have much more contact with people who read what I write and say a better feel for its effect than I, 1995 previously. I hear from many people in many different countries, I would have never even given never before. So my earlier answers error examples not. I am a big fan of the new technology. I can not say I help full use of the possibilities offered by it which but it has to touch me more people and help, allows more people, and makes it possible, to touch more people and me.

Office 365: what advice do you have for small business owners to increase their networks or their networks increase in value?
Bo Burlingham: I would advise advice from someone get knows them much more about these technologies and their use as I do. I know just enough to be dangerous. Seth Godin is the person I look for wisdom on this topic. I recommend also Phil Simon book, the new small, so very convincingly, the new technological tools bigger allow small businesses and give them decisive advantages in competition with larger companies.

Sure to follow @ Smallgiantsbuzz and @ office365 Twitter feeds on Wednesday, 7 March for his live Twitter interview at 1: 40 pm CST. Can your own at Bo questions during this time, you will receive an immediate reply and you closed Conference in the powerful discussion instead of Inc GrowCo 2012 are on. You can also use the # growco Hashtag for all kinds of great content and insight from the Conference.

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Back to the basics: without code application development with access

Every now and then I have a home project for which I can't afford (or does not want to employ) a professional home contractor. Sometimes are too expensive, they do not believe that my home project is large enough, or want to take the time to understand what I want to do. Therefore, that I like companies such as Home Depot, Lowe's and ACE hardware. I know that I can go there shop around for the materials and tools, talk to some people who are more than I experts and come with newfound confidence, that I can create a new Office in my house or a new deck, or simply make a number of small but complex fixes around the House. I do not my life as a professional contractor, but as the people at Home Depot saying, "You can do it, we can help."
As a person, whose Karriere has centered on software development, I feel really passionate about users who are not professionals in software development in contrast to many of us. How they solve their problems too, if they cannot afford or do not meet, professional developers? Or what if we went all DevConnections in Orlando, Florida, this week?
One of the great advantages of Microsoft Access is how it helps create people easy applications, which would otherwise require the expertise of a professional developer.  While users can create Microsoft Access solutions, code with, such as Visual Basic or SQL, today we with you who would like to speak non-professional, can a few features that you create applications, write no code.
At the high level, you can create Microsoft Access data by three main tasks of tracking applications:
a) store and track your data: it is very easy to create the tables where your data is stored, and create forms on these tables, so that you enter, edit, change and delete your information. It is also easy, your data with Datasheet views (as opposed to a set of data views) to navigate. Of course you want your data, to be exact, and you can do access by defining validation rules, you can use on your data want to enforce. For example, you can ensure that the color of a product is one, or that the prices are non-negative for your products.
b) combine and design your data: once you have data stored in your tables, you can it, combine, create joining two tables, or by using external data. For example, can you the data in your invoices table with the data in your product information table "join". In access, you can do this by querying create essentially different views against your data.
c) reporting on your data: as soon as you stored data and it designed by querying, you can easily create reports against it. These reports you can create buzz, order your information based on a field of interest (for example, in descending order of price) and so on. Reports must be carried out only in access, you can also export it to Excel, where you can analyze your findings.
These three activities constitute the core of a data access page tracking application. Professional developers with professional development tools for hours create similar applications with tools like Visual Studio, and you then deploy it to their users. However this type of personal or team-based application can be created with access, in minutes, without writing code. In addition you can be deployed easily desktops on Microsoft SharePoint to people. In this way, an application for other users can be released while the information in SharePoint remains centralized.
In summary you keep in mind that, if you a small project to your information to track, with access, "can you do it, and we can help." In the next blog post, we are directly in access to illustrate.

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