What You Do Matters!

By Dean Whittaker Recently I had the opportunity to return to the small Midwest farm town in which I grew up. Over the past forty years I have seen the town gradually decline. First the clothing store closed, then the five-and-dime, the furniture store, a restaurant,...

"You Are Where You Live"

By Jami Miedema Demographic information is helpful to find out population characteristics for economic and marketing research. But what if you want to look beyond the distribution of certain traits of a community and understand their culture? Would it be useful to...

Selecting a Cloud Computing Vendor

By Todd Smithee Cloud computing is one of today’s hottest IT topics. The benefits of cloud computing are tremendous and include access to Fortune 500 technology regardless of your company’s size; minimal IT infrastructure and personnel requirements; and...