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Jon's Scribblings
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A cautionary tale about British management

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05

Innovations for small business from the world of 1997

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29

Digital Signatures are used every day in 2009 without us even realising it most of the time - back back in 1997 it was a different story.

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22

A great example of how technology has changed in a decade; you can now buy UPS products from £30. But this is how it was back in 1997.

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15

Hindsight is a wonderful thing - look at the future of mobile communications as seen in 1997.

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08

 How to set your IT budgets to gain best value for money.

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01

How short-term thinking is short-sighted and dangerous for business.

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Just a few short years ago, If I’d told you that you could get world-wide, targeted advertising and marketing communications for your company for a hu...

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18

Jon discloses a little more about the opaque world of computer programming.

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11

Discovering what computer programming is all about.

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04

The future according to Professor Cochrane of BT Research Labs.

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27

The milennium bug: doom, gloom, ignorance and idiocy.

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20

ISPs over-selling their bandwidth: does it matter? N.B. No longer relevant in 2009!

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13

Software licensing explained.

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06

Microsoft Office Small Business Edition: any good?

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30

Intranets: what they are, why they're useful, and how to build one.

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23

Managing IT budgets in the face of inevitability.

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16

Managing change; adding up the cost & value of IT; and why we upgrade.

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09

Managing IT, and the nature of obsolescence.

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02

Introduction to the concept of the business process, for the small business owner.

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25

Jon's next piece introducing the Internet for business users - publishing a web site.

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18

Yet more intro to the Internet for the confused business person.

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11

More about the internet, for the unititiated business person

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04

Introduction to the Internet for business people

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Jon's Old Articles

From 1989, Jon wrote for many magazines in the IT, food and travel sectors.

The IT magazines included Personal Computer World, Practical Computing, PC Magazine, Computer Shopper, Microsoft Magazine and many others.

As a consultant who also wrote, he was invited to be a founder contributing editor for PC Pro magazine. He also wrote articles for Brighton's Evening Argus explaining and simplifying technology for small-business people.

Here you can read some of those old articles - more than a decade later, some are now way out of date; but some are still surprisingly timeless.

  
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