Tracing the Internet equivalent of a great circle route from New York to Bangalore, India, the New York Times noticed that many outsourcers were landing in Portland, Oregon. A leak in the Internet pipeline? Nope.
As we hire more engineers and scope further expansion of our data center, a Times article "Outsourcing I.T. To Unlikely Places, Like America" singled out EasyStreet as a Managed Server Provider who is helping other companies keep up. Among the quotes from our Rich Bader:
“We have four upstream Internet providers coming into our place,” said Rich Bader, the chief executive of EasyStreet Online Services in Beaverton, Ore., outside Portland. Among the three very high-speed lines, he said, usually one goes down once a month. “The trick is that we have enough spare bandwidth on the other lines to handle any outage.”
Click on the link to read the entire September 12th article.
September 17th, 2007 by Day Tooley
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There are few blogs that I subscribe to and read regularly. But some individuals are worth listening to and share insights that are very much worth my time as a businessman. An example is Seth Godin's Blog (which is a permanent link in the right column on this page).
Seth is a guru of marketing in the best sense of the word. He seems to understand motivation to action based on perception. He holds an MBA from Stanford, and was called "the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age" by Business Week.
Yesterday (9/11/07), for example, Seth posted 3 short articles. All seemed to be on-target to me and worth pointing out to business owners and managers. Dip your toe into Godin's mind with the Big Ideas article. My guess is that you will want to hear more from him.
Who are your business mentors?
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It's been more than a decade since AARP aggressively attempted to recruit me for membership. And nobody ever asks for my ID anymore to see if I qualify for the coveted Senior Discount. But this morning's Wall Street Journal article New Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age led with the announcement that "Older people are sticky." That caught my eye.
Referrals and testimonials have been the mother's milk of doing business forever. The Internet has added powerful tools that many business people are using. My first one was LinkedIn. It continues to be a good way to keep connected to a sphere of people who can help one another in business. Young people continue to mob MySpace until they go to college and graduate to FaceBook, which is considered more adult. (OK, I have a FaceBook account too.)
Responsible adults now have some new places to hang out with their peers and share experience. These sites with names like Eons, ReZoom, Multiply, Maya’s Mom, Boomj, and BoomerTown, look like FaceBook — with wrinkles. All are free to join but require some time and involvement to be useful.
I took a look at Multiply which would appeal to those who want to be known in the community. Good choice for sharing with friends and family. But I really liked TeeBeeDee (their theme is "Sharing Experience to Thrive") as a place to connect based on personal interests. TeeBeeDee is new and has just received $4.8 million in venture capital.
Social networking in business is a 2-way street. While you can learn about others, others can also research and learn about you. For example, before we interview a potential employee, it is common to do a Google search on them as well as to look for their Internet footprints on the social networking sites.
Of course, you can share your networking experience on this blog as well by leaving a comment. What is working for you?
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