ActivePower Flywheel UPS

Backup power for data centers usually means a huge bank of heavy, expensive, and toxic batteries. ActivePower’s Martin Olsen explains how the company’s environmentally-friendly power backup system, powered by a 600 pound flywheel, saves space and money.

PodTech:AFCOM CEO Speaks

Jill Eckhaus, CEO, explains what AFCOM does, who belongs, and services the group provides. This interview happened at the Data Center World Conference in September 2007 in Dallas, one of their major member benefits.

PodTech:Videoconferencing by Telanetix

How to best show teleconferencing? Let the vendor use their product for a meeting. From the Dallas office of Audio Visual Innovations, the reseller, I spoke with Bob Leggio (VP of Sales) and Rob Arnold (CTO) of Telanetix while they sat in their New Jersey and California offices.

PodTech:Community Blogging With BlogFusion

Dave Livingston, chief technology officer for Brainband Technology Services, explains and demonstrates their new community blogging product called BlogFusion. All the individual blog tools you expect from a service are there, and they\’ve added ways to organize communities of bloggers around central blog sites. The blog administrator handles control and management details, and the blog team members work as they do on personal blogs.

PodTech:Brand Marketing to Cell Phones

Russell Morgan, chief operating officer of GroupieTunes, explains how the company uses cell phones to reach out to customers and increase the awareness for customers. Their “Mobile Community Network Enabler” platform allows, for instance, music fans to get messages and alerts from favorite groups anytime and anywhere.

PodTech:Resonate With Customers

During my keynote speeches for the spring ITEC conferences, I explained to people from small and medium businesses how to use new marketing tools, like blogs, to better connect with customers. Since only about 10 percent of attendees admitted having their own company blogs, I focused less on blog technology and more on blog philosophy and value building a bond with customers.

PodTech:Information Technology Solution Providers Alliance

Russell Morgan, founder and president of ITSPA, discusses the group during a break while taping the Wells Fargo Small Business Webcast on Technology and Your Business. Morgan also explains bad ideas in big businesses others should avoid, and good ideas small businesses should learn from big businesses.

PodTech:A Webcast Producer Talks

Josh Camire, producer of the Wells Fargo Small Business Webcast series, talks about the process used by Wells Fargo to present their Webcasts. Josh also explains how companies with limited budgets can create interesting video content.

PodTech:Denise Wakeman, BlogSquad Cofounder

Denise Wakeman, half of The BlogSquad, explains how she helps companies make better blogs, and what makes a good blog. She received more viewer questions during the Wells Fargo Small Business Webcast than anyone, another indication, if needed, of continued interest in all things blog. Her advice site, Build A Better Blog, offers a wealth of blogging resource material.