Op-Ed: EPA Brownfields Program’s role in redevelopment
September 10, 2013
EPA’s Brownfields Program was created in 1995 and it assists states, municipalities, communities, and other stakeholders (including nonprofit and private sector) to asses and redevelop abandoned or contaminated properties and redevelop them in a sustainable way.
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‘Practical Techie:’ To give or not to give?
September 4, 2013
A merchant must decide nowadays whether providing customers free access to the Web is good for business. Very much so, since connectivity is the backbone of the Internet. Let's look at it this way, our lives revolve around three digital windows: cellphone, computer and TV screens.
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‘Practical Techie:’ Optimizing websites with key tools
August 27, 2013
Keeping a website functional and fully purposed, is not only prudent but financially rewarding. If your commercial site is of you’re own doing, or professionally designed, keeping it running the way it should is a sound business move. Not only for profit reasons, but to avoid technical hassles or legal entanglements.
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‘Practical Techie’: Web hosting maneuvers
August 20, 2013
A critical aspect of any business web site is where to host it. And then, how to host your portal.
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‘Practical Techie’: A new business model for newsprint
August 13, 2013
A common diatribe these days is that the Internet has broken the newspaper business model.
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‘Practical Techie:’ Social media branding grinds slowly, yet finely
August 6, 2013
Social media did a full turn of the screw in recent times and along the way created a new paradigm for product marketing.
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Practical Techie: New commercial domains will light the cybersky
July 30, 2013
The year 2013 will go down in Web history as the time when new top-level generic domain names came to be. Finally. And exactly 30 years after the Domain Name System was introduced into to what was then the brand new commercial Internet.
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‘Practical Techie:’ The magical science of portals
July 22, 2013
Like the Stargate science fiction TV series, a web portal is like a magic entryway into a world of interesting information and events. Like any magical doorway, the design morphs and alters according to usage.
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‘Practical Techie:’ The quest for a potent message
July 16, 2013
Let's be frank about it. A good business website requires a bit of malicious intent.
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‘Practical Techie:’ The web is the great mobilizer
July 9, 2013
The ability to organize is the basis of life. A true foundation of a civilized world. As the world turns, so change the methods of bringing humans together to a point of common interest. In the field of commerce, to a point of sale.
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‘Practical Techie:’ A polished biz site without the hassles
July 2, 2013
If your business hasn't one yet...it should by now. A website, I mean. The size of the business doesn't matter anymore. Every small biz or any multinational corporation deserves a radiant spot in the World Wide Web. Rather, it needs to have a very rewarding presence online.
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Op-Ed: The Jones Act
July 1, 2013
We knew that the recently completed study on Puerto Rico’s maritime cargo would be controversial because cabotage issues, part of the study, have been discussed for decades and have become an emotional and politically charged subject.
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Op-Ed: Against the Jones Act
June 28, 2013
A recent study by the firm Estudios Técnicos, paid by Jones Act shippers, purports to show the benefits for Puerto Rico of the Jones Act. The federal law requires all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, built in the U.S. and crewed by U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The analysis, as described by a local business publication, makes for sad reading.
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Op-Ed: Customer service – growth tool in a tough economy
June 26, 2013
Ana Mari Toro moved to Atlanta a year ago along with her husband, Eduardo, an ob-gyn, and their three children. While on vacation in Puerto Rico recently, she had a bad customer service experience at the largest mall cinema complex. After waiting in line for nearly half hour for an order, neither the employee, nor the manager could fulfill her request: nachos with cheese on the side and popcorn.
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Op-Ed: Why technology, e-Learning are key for our economic recovery
June 20, 2013
Technology has key effects on business operations in Puerto Rico today more than ever, especially in the start-up business and entrepreneur’s arena. No matter the size of the enterprise, technology has both tangible and intangible benefits that will help produce the results that customers demand.
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