Feb 25th, 2009
About
SMB IT Journal is an online publication dedicated to providing small and medium businesses with the resources that they need to manage their Information Technology: Small and Medium Business Information Technology Journal.
In many ways, the SMB market has the same needs as large enterprises, but they often lack the experience in managing technology and they obviously lack the advantage of scale that larger corporations are able to leverage. What an SMB may lack in scale is often made up in agility and nimbleness.
Given the right tools and support, small businesses can compete with large businesses by taking advantage of their relative size to move more quickly, adapt more rapidly and to take risks that big companies are afraid to take. Information Technology is an important enabler of this behaviour and, if managed correctly, can bring many of the same benefits to smaller enterprises as it does to the Fortune 500.
SMB IT Journal’s mission is to educate small businesses in how they can utilize Information Technology in the same ways that large businesses leverage it. Small businesses often fail to compete adequately with their larger counterparts because they neglect to treat IT as a strategic, competitive advantage, but this is not the way that it has to be. IT can be a strategic advantage to the SMB market in exactly the same way.
I read your article ” Why IT Pro’s Home Computers are Different”
One question: I have always had a fear down loading anything off line. How do I know that it is who they say they are. For example Microsoft how do I know it is Microsoft and not someone else trying to get me to down load something I do not want.
It is a very interesting information you have presented.
Dave
The best was to tell that is to look at the address bar in your browser. Are you on Microsoft’s website? If not, then don’t download Microsoft software. Microsoft makes sure that their sites are very easy to identify as being their own.
You can further protect yourself from bad downloads by using a service like OpenDNS which can be configured to block malware websites. This can act as a second layer of protection (after you yourself being the first layer by only downloading directly from the websites of companies that you trust.)
Hi Scott,
Do you consider guest blog writers depending on their relevance?
@Lindsay Absolutely.