Jun 1, 2017 | Management, Sales & Marketing
This article was published in the June 2017 edition of Graphic News magazine, the publication of the Printing Industries of Michigan. I have a background in mathematics and statistics, and have always appreciated a strong, data-driven analysis. Today, with the power...
May 1, 2017 | Design & Branding
This article was published in the April 2017 edition of Graphic News magazine, the publication of the Printing Industries of Michigan. Good design answers questions, while great design also solves problems. Trends shift, technology advances, but the cornerstone of...
Jan 7, 2017 | Sales & Marketing
What to do when market pressure tries to lower your bottom line By Charles Groce, CEO of Pearl Street Consulting Republished from Graphic News magazine, January 2017 It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, making money is first and foremost about doing...
Aug 18, 2016 | Collaboration, IT, Open Source
This is awesome, Open365 is essentially a self-hosted version of LibreOffice, the MS Office Suite open source clone, SeaFile, an open source file exchange and management solution. It’s like an open source version of Google Docs with Google Drive integration....
Aug 1, 2016 | Sales & Marketing, Web Publishing
And why you shouldn’t let your IT design your website By Charles Groce, CEO of Pearl Street Consulting Republished from Graphic News magazine, August 2016 You’ve probably done this before. You decide to scope out a new potential vendor’s website...
Jul 1, 2016 | Open Source
By Charles Groce, CEO of Pearl Street Consulting Republished from Graphic News magazine, July 2016 You may not have noticed, but March 2014 was a turning point in the history of content consumption and distribution. This was month in which mobile usage overtook...
Jul 1, 2016 | Open Source
By Charles Groce, CEO, Pearl Street Consulting Today, Pearl Street marks one year as an independent and healthy technology initiative. Although I started Pearl Street in July 2014, it wasn’t until July 1, 2015 that it became the primary focus of my professional...
Jun 5, 2016 | Open Source
Okay, so here is a project I’ve been watching closely. Collabora Online is like an open source, self-hosted Google Docs. And they’ve just released their first production version. Although the lay person might wonder why someone would need to have their...
Jun 2, 2016 | Collaboration, Open Source
So it turns out all of these reports of developers at ownCloud, including the founder, have been leading up to the forking of ownCloud over to a new self-hosted Infrastructure as a Service solution called NextCloud. I had suspected there were major philosophical...
