Calling out around the world! July is here. The Supreme Court (without Diana Ross) made a lot of people Happy/Mad/Confused last week. Once again a week full of "people who disagree with me are doo-doo heads." Good times. 

And another frenzy of promotions, pushes and folks taking advantage of the end of Microsoft's fiscal year.

The year's half over and I'm half done. Not all bad, actually. We here at Simplex-IT performed several Office 365 migrations (it's getting easier and easier to do with the various tools available). A couple of SBS migrations to SBS 2011 (ditto).

And we're starting to get ready for our annual picnic in August (the 15th, to be exact). Of course, we're not ignoring our July Lunchinar either. You can see announcements for both events below.

Summer's here, and the time is right...although dancing in the street could be dangerous. Please use extreme caution<g>.

Bob 

    

 

Ok, you've stuck your foot in the Social Media swimming pool to test the water - you're on Facebook, LinkedIn, maybe even Twitter. Now what? Is that too much? Not enough? What's your next step? How do you decide?

At this month's free Simplex-IT Lunchinar, Bob Coppedge is hosting a roundtable discussion that will examine the next steps, challenges and potential for Social Media as it relates to the Small to Medium Organization. Joining us will be local Social Media advocates and gurus Mike Sheehan and Heather Taylor. Together they will interact with Bob and the audience to discuss the latest trends and Social Media portals like Google+, Pinterest, FourSquare, etc.

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Actors Reenact 2010's Picnic

Mark your calendars for August 15 from 4:00-8:00pm and join Simplex-IT as we welcome friends, clients, local business owners and fellow Chamber of Commerce members from Hudson, Streetsboro, Cuyahoga Falls and Akron. Once a year in August we forego our regular monthly business-oriented Lunchinar presentation in favor of an open invitation picnic celebration in the back yard of our Worldwide International Headquarters (5225 Darrow Road, Hudson). This year will be no exception.

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Simplex-IT's June 2012 lunchinar is somewhat a departure from our regular 'general interest' topics - yes, it's a shameless self-promotion! Join Bob Coppedge as he steps you through the many services we provide our clients. You will learn how it benefits them AND adds value to their information technology.

For those of you who couldn't join us in person you can now join the presentation by clicking on the thumbnail below. Of course, if you have questions as you listen don't hesitate to contact us - by email: John@Simplex-IT.com or by phone: 234.380.1277. We are always happy to help whenever we can!

Simplex-IT: This Is What We Do

Bob here. In Douglas Adams' classic book "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy," Earth-born hero Arthur Dent learns that his friend Ford Prefect was going to update the Guide's entry from "harmless" to "mostly harmless." Considering the Earth had been recently destroyed in order to make a Pan-Dimensional bypass (What? You didn't know??), the point seemed rather moot.

Only a slight change, but significant by a certain perspective.

Something similar recently happened, up on the web. CRN recently pointed out that Apple, long known for not worrying about viruses and the like, has toned down its superiority claims against the PC.

Their web site as recent as June 9th said: "It doesn't get PC Viruses" To: "It's built to be safe"

Those two sentences, to me, represent a huge swing in terms of presentation to the audience. In the first you've got a "cross this concern off your list," whereas the second statement is "We're going to try really hard to protect you."

Just as the title indicates, Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 support will be ending in April 2014.

Here at Simplex-IT we aren't into extreme-isms (never in a bazillion years!). "The sky is falling the end is near!" or "If your systems work now there won't be problems in the future" are two messages you won't hear from us. As a business strategy, this support ending situation needs to be on your radar.

What does this mean?  Click here to find out!