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"Warrior stepped in when we were not getting the service needed from our previous provider. Three years later they are still proving that our business is important to them. We can always count on Harold and his staff for service, availability and responsiveness. Their technical aptitude is a key asset to their success and ours."
GLT Companies
Julie DeFratis, Controller
Evan Wake, IT Manager
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An informative article on the harsh realities associated with paper consumption in America and what you can do to make a difference. Its easier than you think.
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Did you know?
Serviette is another
word for napkin.
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TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."
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Who invented the car key?
Vincent Bendix in 1910
Turn-key ignition, patented by former Cadillac salesman Vincent Bendix in 1910.
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Buffalo Chicken Dip
This recipe is fantastic! Make it for a get together or just for you, either way it will be devoured!
Ingredients:
1 Large and 1 small can of
chunk chicken, drained
2 8 oz. blocks softened cream cheese
1 cup ranch dressing
3/4 cup Frank's Red Hot
1-1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Tortilla Chips
Fresh celery for garnish
Preparation:
Drain chicken and place in skillet with red hot, warm on medium heat thoroughly
Add ranch dressing and softened cream cheese until mixture is smooth and warmed throughout
Stir in 1/2 of the shredded cheddar cheese
Transfer mixture to crock pot and sprinkle remaining cheese on top
Cook on low setting in crock pot until hot and bubbly
Serve with tortilla chips and fresh celery.
Bon Appetit!
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Entertaining this holiday season? Don't miss out on important tips and tricks that will have your guests oohing and aahing over your hosting abilities!
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Care Alliance, a non profit health care provider is seeking donations this winter for clean, unused socks for our homeless men, women and children in the greater Cleveland area. Although times are tough, donating a clean pair of socks for one person costs under 2 bucks and will help keep the feet and hearts of our neighbors warm this holiday season. To learn more or to make a donation contact:
Donna Kelly
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Care Alliance Clinic
1530 St. Clair Avenue
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Start a drive in your office today and see what a profound difference you can all make, together.
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"There is no time more fitting to say Thank You
and to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a New Year of health, happiness and prosperity."
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| Greetings!
741 pounds. That is the amount of paper a typical American uses in one year. Where in the world does all that paper go? Some of it is recycled by you environmentally friendly people and the rest of it, who knows exactly. Landfills, your own back yard, the park and our city streets seem to house a lot of discarded paper. There is no better or more important time than now to discover the ways in which each one of us can actually use less paper in our daily lives, help preserve our environment and clean up the earth. Thankfully, there is an answer tucked neatly away inside of Sage's MAS 90/200 programs. The 'Paperless Office' module will show you just how easy it is to live, work and play in a greener way. It's a win-win situation for everyone: you will help cut costs at work by using less paper, assist in cleaning up the environment and shave valuable time off of your administrative functions which allows you an opportunity to focus on more important aspects of your job. Our featured article, Green Living, will provide you with the tools to turn this idea into a reality. Show your friends, show your boss, show yourself just how easy and cool it is to move on to greener pastures; pardon the cliche.
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Green Living
by Kristin Balonier
Rethinking the way your company buys uses and discards paper helps your business as well as the environment. By using less paper, you help trim your bottom line through cost-cutting and efficiency. Implementing a conservation, recycling and eco-friendly paper procurement program can and will generate positive publicity for your company, giving your customers and clients one more reason to spend their dollars with you.
A typical office disposes of about 350 pounds of wastepaper per employee per year. Figuring out ways to save some of that paper is a strategic move that will help avoid turning some of your company's profit over to its paper suppliers: a move that makes you look really good.
When it comes to winning the hearts and minds of your clients, having an eco-friendly paper policy might just give you a huge advantage over your competitors. Prospective customers will clearly see that your company values the environment, and that you feel an obligation to be a good corporate citizen and they'll wonder if your competition can make a similar claim. Remember, actions speak louder than words.
A program to conserve and recycle paper can boost employee morale, by giving employees an opportunity to be involved in a long-term effort to protect the environment. In addition, a smart paper program will send a message to your investors -- shareholders or owners -- that you're being proactive and looking for ways to cut costs and improve the bottom line. In turn, they can feel good about investing in your company while making a profit at the same time.
By using the powerful paperless office feature in the MAS 90/200 ERP software program from Sage, you can greatly contribute to this important cause. With Paperless Office, you'll reduce paper costs by eliminating the need to use stacks of paper to print lengthy reports and free up precious storage space which equals more money to your company's bottom line. In addition, you can quickly and easily find files, view reports and forms, and print only the pages you want. And, when you need them again, retrieve them from the archives using intuitive search and sort tools, reducing the time you and your employees spend searching through old files and reports.
Paperless Office can extend the reach of documents to multiple people in separate locations, where they can be accessed quickly and simultaneously. In addition, the powerful electronic forms delivery capabilities allow Sage MAS 90 and 200 users to e-mail or fax documents on a timely basis to vendors and customers, which ultimately improves business-to-business communications.
This is just one of the many ways that MAS 90 and 200 can benefit your company. Saving the environment and saving money will definitely feel good. What are you waiting for? |
Go Cone Yourself 
Sounds funny, doesn't it? Rest assured there is a remedy for the madness you feel at work and coning yourself might just give you the break that you've been looking for. So what are you supposed to do with the cone exactly? Researchers say that using a traffic cone to get things done at work can yield tremendous results in as little as 90 minutes.
Your not supposed to wear it. Your not supposed to put on your inline skates and boogie around it. What you are encouraged to do with it though is use it as a symbol of someone who is hard at work and not to be disturbed unless the building you work in is on fire! It would be great if we could take the credit for this clever approach to staving off hungry co-workers in search of your time, but we cannot. What we can do for you though is pay it forward. So listen up.
If your day is filled with too many meetings that produce more work for you to do with no time to do it or a list of e-mails the length of your arm to answer, then you are in need of some serious coning. Here's how it works:
- Every employee should have access to a commonly understood signal, a cone for example each day
- The cone is to be placed in the doorway of an employee who simply needs a little quiet time
- Keep yourself coned for no more than 90 minutes: anything more can be very frustrating to others
- Set an example by respecting the cone, don't interrupt!
- Turn off all distractions; e-mail alarms, cell phones etc.
- Do not answer e-mail! This is what got you here to begin with!
- Make it a routine; 2-3 times a week should work
Now only you know what type of people you work with and what rules, if any, should apply. The goal here is to reclaim some of your day and actually get something worthwhile accomplished. The experts say that those who have participated come away feeling rejuvenated and successful. The only question left to ask is, "Why didn't I think of that?". |
| YouSendIt - Going, Going, Gone!
Do you work in a deadline driven environment? Do you ever have a need to send large files to inter-company personnel or to staff in an offsite location? Are courier charges and time spent downloading those files onto a dvd format costing you extra time and money? The answer to these questions for a lot of you is probably yes. The challenges faced by those of you in the service industry is to keep projects moving forward and to meet deadlines when expected. Those of you in a manufacturing setting may face challenges pertaining to ad-hoc or informal e-mail communications between external vendors and customers. Deploying a managed file transfer service to send large files such as YouSendIt can offer significant benefits.
About YouSendIt
YouSendIt is the trusted global leader in digital content delivery. YouSendIt's innovative platform empowers people to send, receive and track digital files on-demand. YouSendIt's reliable service provides a convenient email attachment solution, an easy-to-use FTP replacement, and eliminates the need to send files on disk via overnight courier service. Tens of thousands of companies have incorporated YouSendIt as a mission-critical platform that offers a trusted, convenient service for their entire organization. Managing more than 10 million files each month for seven million users worldwide, YouSendIt is the solution for on-demand digital delivery and can offer you and your company significant benefits:
- Browser-based access so that any internal or external team member can use the managed service
- Microsoft Outlook™ plug-in so that that users work within their email inbox, requiring no additional user training
- Helps to keep projects on track
- A managed file delivery service preserves valuable IT resources
- Allows large files to be sent and received regardless of computing environment
- Is private and secure
- Centralized management capabilities allow IT to set the point when a file is sent via the managed service instead of on the internal email system
- Auditability of usage to meet corporate policies and regulatory compliance requirements
- Less traffic and processing on the internal email server.
In our ongoing effort to provide you with ways to save time and money, we have come across a free offer from YouSendIt and would like to share it with you.
YouSendIt Outlook Plug-In - Overview
The YouSendIt Outlook Plug-in allows users to send large files without opening a browser while handling files up to 2GB in size. Most importantly, you don't have to worry about e-mail bounce backs because of e-mail server restrictions since the attachment goes through the YouSendIt server. The Outlook plug-in handles network interruptions and resumes uploading your file when network connectivity is re-established. You can choose which attachments you want to send through YouSendIt Outlook Plug-in based on the file size. For example, you can choose to send all files larger than 1MB to go through YouSendIt automatically. You can also choose to be prompted whenever an attachment is being sent so that you can decide whether to send through YouSendIt Outlook Plug-in or the e-mail server. In order to use YouSendIt Outlook Plug-in, please sign up for an account at YouSendIt site. Version 2.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
Free YouSendIt Plug In for Outlook |
| All Wrapped Up
No we are not going to discuss gifts in this piece. Rather something a little more serious. Tis the season for year end activities. Many of you are responsible for handling the rigamor of financial reconciliation. Somewhere between buying the perfect gift for a loved one and sending out your holiday cards, is the often times pressurized task of closing out this year and preparing for next. But help is literally at your fingertips.
Enter Business Insights Dashboard, a magnificent and intuitive tool within Sage's MAS 90/200 ERP programs. BID has the power to provide busy managers or business owners with quick access to key business information in a format that is easy to read and understand. Through the utilization of this very capable module, you will stay on top of detailed information and reports that will show you in a comprehensive format, just what has happened during the past year in multiple facets of your business. An invaluable tool, Business Insights Dashboard can show you where you've been and where you need to go. Plus you can keep on top of critical business management information and be better prepared to thrive in today's fast-paced, highly competitive business environment. With Business Insights Dashboard, you decide what information is the most critical to your operation.
Designed to present easily accessible information in a high-level, graphical layout, Business Insights Dashboard provides the data necessary to make well-informed, business-critical decisions and give you a competitive edge. This isn't just any reporting tool, this customizable feature allows you to choose the information that you want and need through insightful reports, extensive drill-down capabilities and an automatic data refreshing feature; staying informed has never been easier.
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Hopefully this newsletter has provided you with some valuable information and advice on getting the most out of your day to day operations. As always, we thank you for your continued support and trust in us. There is no better time of year than right now to say how grateful we are to have you as a member of the Warrior family. Happy Holidays from our family to yours.
Sincerely,
Kristin Balonier
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