CRM Update – Mar 17 : 12:28 pm

Food For Thought Before You Jump Into Your Personal Blog
Why create a personal blog? At its core, a personal blog, regardless of focus, is about your desire to communicate with a broader audience to fulfill a personal goal. (Here are 7 reasons to have a personal blog.)
Personal blogs aren’t diaries.
While a personal blog is like keeping a diary, it differs in several major ways. Unlike the old-fashioned hand written diary, there’s no lock and key.
In fact, the experience is exactly the opposite…

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.What’s New This Week?Facebook Updates Events Interface: Several changes make Facebook Events easier to use. There’s more flexibility when creating an Event and it’s easier to find an option to create a Facebook Event for your particular needs. There are also changes to the Event pages including the wall only allowing comments from people who say they’re attending or might do so…

For some now we had had our servers hosted in two data centres, in Manchester with C4L and in Maidenhead with BlueSquare. As our customer base grows, and our existing customers expand and add more data, we need to add more computing resources. So we have now taken increased rack space in Redpoint, in Fareham, which is a lot easier for us to get to from our offices in Petersfield than is Manchester.
The reason that we maintain two data centres is for uptime. When both are running we can load balance our CRM customers across the two instances…

DHS is hiring a standards and practices/training content manager on the web team! Position closes on Thursday Mar 22 so don’t delay GS-12 see job announcement

Tide has become a hot commodity lately. Law enforcement officials from around the nation say there has been an outbreak of thefts of the pricey-but-well-regarded detergent. One guy allegedly stole $25,000 worth of Tide before Minnesota police nabbed him. Why? Tide can be pricey (up to $20 a bottle), and, well, it’s in high demand. But how can you save on detergent without resorting to buying black-market-Tide?

1) Buy Tide 2X Ultra for Cold Water. This tip will only work if you do your laundry at home, of course, but if you do, you can save $60 per year on heating costs by washing your duds in cold water…