Computers in Business

Hi folks! I’m looking for article suggestions for the coming months and beyond, articles that you, the readers want to see in Computers in Business. As we don’t print an August issue it’s an ideal time to put a bit of thought into the year ahead. I’m not promising anything, basically because I can’t, I’m not the editor - I can only suggest the topics but any feedback would be welcome. I personally want to see an article on business blogging and how companies are using social networking in a business capacity, so take that as being high on the list. What advancing and emerging technologies should Irish businesses be aware of? What are the technology challenges facing companies over the coming years?

Outside of the specific articles, are there elements within the magazine that we can improve on or even add new elements - buyers guides? technology classifieds?

All feedback, good and bad, will be taken on board.

Cheers,

Mark.

On the back of Michele’s post about purchasing a Mac laptop a question popped into my head - with Macs now running Windows, OS X, Linux, Unix etc. natively, is it the only computer out there that does the whole lot - has it become the one-stop-shop for all platforms? Technically what would it take for PCs to run OS X - or is it just licensing? Is it the future? I’m a big Mac fan and user, always have been and (probably) always will be, it is most definitely a brand with sex appeal but under the skin is it as serious a computer as I (and many more like me) think?

The first day of our new blog and apart from knowing 402 things I didn’t know about blogging yesterday, things are good. I want to say a big thanks to Michele for his help, a lot of interesting and important pointers were given - Thank you very much indeed. There’s a lot more tweaking to do but I do feel the site is taking shape, I hope you agree. Again, if there is any info you feel I could do with knowing please leave a comment.

In the coming days, weeks, months and dare I say years, I hope to establish this blog as a place of information and discussion to do with all things IT related. Not only in Ireland but around the world. The goal is to achieve a better understanding of the business issues that are being and need to be discussed within our newspaper, supplements and magazines. I’m new to the blogging scene and hope that, through help and advice from the blogging community, I can make computersinbusiness.com the platform it deserves to be.

Thanks and feel free to comment,

Mark Webster