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From Dave Boone |
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Welcome to our June 2009 issues of ITeam Tips.
We are pleased to announce our new Offsite
Backup Service, one more way to add security and
integrity to your company data. This service
eliminates the need to change tapes, disks, and
manually store physical devices in a location
outside of your office. We are also working with
HP to offer a wide range of desktop upgrades.
Please give me or James a call to talk about any
of these great offerings. Once again, the ITeam
wishes to thank you for your continued support
and confidence with our people and organization. |
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How Strong Are Your Passwords?
by Mike Gonsalves,
StrategicFusion
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people don't realize that computer security starts with
them. An easy way to hold off trouble is to use strong
passwords that you change every so often.
What is a
strong Password? It is a password that is easily
remembered by you, contains uppercase letters, lower
case letters, a number or two, a special character and
is at least 8 characters in length.
Sounds
hard, but it's really easy when you use things you are
familiar with.
For
example, if I grew up at 245 Lucky Street, I might make
my password Lucky245& Notice I've used Uppercase and
Lowercase Letters, I have 3 numbers and a special
character.
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Unified communications:
Right for your
business?
by Heather Clancy
reprinted with permission from the
Microsoft Small Business Center
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 While most of us welcome the opportunity to stay in touch virtually
anytime from anywhere, keeping up with phone calls, voicemail, e-mail
and instant messaging can distract even the most disciplined person from
more important concerns.
Enter the white knight of
"unified communications," technology that integrates phone calls, voice
mail and video conferencing - all your telephone communications - with
your e-mail, documents and other applications on a personal computer.
Unified communications becomes even more valuable when extended to fax
and especially useful when linked with information in customer or
sales-prospect databases, according to Dave Casey, president of Westron
Communications, a network technology integration company in Carrolton,
Texas.
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4 Best IT Practices for
Business Success
reprinted with permission from the HP Small Business Center |
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In
today’s competitive market, small businesses need every
advantage they can get. Many are looking for new ways to
improve the bottom line, as well as protect their existing
business.
One area you
might not have looked at is the experiences of larger
businesses. With their greater resources, it’s easy for them
to “test drive” new ideas and strategies – which you can
then borrow and apply as needed. Take a look at these four
best practices borrowed from successful enterprises and try
to put them to work in your business today.
Get plugged
in to social media
According to a new study by marketing agency OgilvyOne Asia
Pacific, over 456 million users in Asia – almost a third of
the world’s population – are using
social media. Japan, for example, has the highest blog
readership in the world.
Never in the
history of advertising and marketing has there been the
ability to reach so many people so directly and personally
at so little cost – which is great news for small businesses
with limited marketing budgets. Maybe it’s time for your
company to
start a blog?
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