Archive for the ‘Technology General’ Category

When technology drags you by the collar

Are you still putting up the fight against evolving technology as a small business? Are you lacking a business plan that leverages technology to optimize delivery of your product or service? Would you rather spend more time working IN your business rather than working ON your business? Is your definition of a business technology plan [...]

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Resolution: Make your IT lose weight

New year – lose weight! I stopped by my town’s rec center last night and was surprised by the predictable annual workout resolution fall off.  It’s only the second week of January and already most of the “white shoe crew” was no where to be seen.  Unfortunate, as I admire those who take the initiative [...]

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2012 is the year your technology started serving your business

New year – new IT challenges! A while back we posted about sitting down and having a plan for 2012 in regard to your technology solution and growth.  How did it go?  Did it get done? You still have time.  It’s a new year and there are so many exciting things in the world of [...]

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What Expensive IT Really Looks Like

Many companies, especially those that are growing, would love to have a high-quality IT services provider that they can rely on, but ultimately make a few phone calls before deciding it’s “just too expensive.” That doesn’t mean that their technology needs go away, however. And so, many of these companies turn to untrained IT solutions [...]

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Should You Prepay for IT Service Hours?

There are a lot of different kinds of IT agreements out there, and probably just as many questions over what represents a good value and what doesn’t. But when it comes to prepaying for billable technology hours, business owners arrive at a particularly interesting conundrum: They’re likely to save money if they buy up front, [...]

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Why Awful IT is Like a Bad Marriage

If you have ever taken a little time to listen to the call-in advice shows that are so popular on the radio, you’ll quickly notice one strange and slightly disturbing fact: that there aren’t a lot of people out there who are unhappily married. Whether it’s constant bickering, lack of trust, or general dissatisfaction, a [...]

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See your company in the clouds

It will be there one day soon.  I promise. There has been so much said about cloud-based technology in the past couple of years you may feel a little lost, confused, or in the dark about cloud services.  Let’s start with some simple info. The Cloud – aka. The Internet.  Whenever you read or someone [...]

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Can the spam

There is a surplus of spam right now. In August, there was a two year high of malicious spam in terms of quantity.   A new post at M86 Security Labs showed this past week an average of 24% of spam volumes were considered “malicious” in nature.  Basically, one in ever 4 spam emails received will [...]

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Become an online newspaper editor

Turns out I am not a bad newspaper editor/publisher. I wish I could take more credit for its creation, however.  The simple tools at paper.li have made it so within a couple minutes any user that is active in the social media community will have their own “virtual” newspaper created.  At first, I was a [...]

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Recovery Time Objective

Do you know what this means? As an IT person, you should learn it.  As a business manager, you should be aware of it.  As a business owner, you should know it like the back of your hand. Basically, it’s a goal on how much time your business can tolerate before your business processes or [...]

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