As my colleague was turning the office upside down looking for a USB lead adapter specific to a particular brand of kit, I asked myself for the millionth time why there aren’t universal standards in such fields. I’m talking camera memory cards, phone chargers and the like. The computer industry has long recognised this and USB has become a standard interface used the world over. I guess I can say goodbye to the rather large cardboard box I have in the garage full of obsolete adapters, leads and cables, not to mention the bag full of mobile phone chargers which I have amassed.

It’s

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I may be stating the obvious when I say that your CRM software is only going to be as good as the person using it. This may well mean retraining your habits - for example saving documents into OpenCRM rather than to your pc. I know people are generally hostile to change especially when a system appears to be doing fine just as it is, but with a few minor adjustments OpenCRM can help streamline your workload and make your days’ work achieve more results.

Here are 10 suggestions to help you get more out of your daily use of your web based CRM solution:

1. Instead of making notes on

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This is just a quick update, on the off chance that someone else is out there, using the iPhone app for WordPress, and wants to know how you add the 'more tag' (thats the icon that inserts the Read More link and is available on the text editor, its the icon that looks like a page split in half), from the iPhone interface?

I have this problem because I frame my blog on a couple of other sites and (quite frankly) who am I kidding if I think people are actually interested in the drivel that I sometimes (some might say all of the time) write, so I wanted a way to reduce the text to a summary,

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Well, I normally don't 'go it alone' and review phones, but as a self confessed iPhone 'freak' I thought I should take a look at the Blackberry Bold to see what I was missing!

Actually, I had a conversation with David Terrar (http://www.biztwozero.com/) and he has done a review for his own blog and was telling me how the Bold was 'better'. Now once I got over the 'as if' attitude that anyone knocking the iPhone normally brings out in me, I thought, well, lets take a look.

I got hold of a Bold for a couple of days, so first, the declaration that I did not use the Bold for a prolonged period

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