Twitter for Local Business Sales Lead Generation

Can Twitter be a good lead-gen medium for high-touch businesses? A friend of ours shows that it can work for her photography business. Can you use this sales workflow for your business? Will an app help you streamline the workflow and help you get more sales leads for the same amount of time spent fishing for it?

How to Create a Time Machine Backup to a Network Drive in Lion

Let’s say you have a home NAS (Network Area Storage), a router with a hard drive, or even an old Windows machine with a lot of disk space lying around. You want to make use of this disk space to store your Time Machine backups. You open Time Machine Preferences and the only way you can add a non-local disk is via a Time Capsule or AirPort-connected storage. Now what? If this is your problem and you have upgraded to Mac OS X Lion, there is a workaround… Keep reading.

Resonate Update – Episode Two

This update shows Resonate’s tweet projection feature. When the iPad’s video-out cable is connected (in other words, VGA or HDMI output), it will display a special screen just for projecting tweets and separate from what the operator see on the iPad’s built-in display. The external display shows either the main timeline or a timeline of a Twitter list, a saved search, or a custom (ad-hoc) search. In addition you can set a heading and subheading to show at the top of the projector’s screen.