Starting this past January on the second Thursday of every month, Simplex-IT has been presenting free training Webinars, typically on commonly used business applications, and we're happy to report our audience for these has been steadily growing. The presentation time for these streaming Webinars is 11:00am - 12:00 noon.

To reaffirm our commitment to freely sharing information and celebrate the growing popularity of the Webinars themselves, we are announcing our schedule for the full six months remaining in 2014! So get out your calendars and mark these red letter dates. You won't want to miss what we have in store for you!

http://www.simplex-it.com/  Learn what small businesses should know and do for security with computers, software and devices from Bob Coppedge of Simplex-IT.  Recorded at our May Lunchinar.

 

IT Security 101 for small to medium businesses

A simple "How To" webinar about creating better presentations using PowerPoint 2013.  Part of Simplex-IT's monthly free webinar series dedicated to helping people understand the capabilities of Microsoft Office 2013.  This is the 7th in our monthly series of free live webinars.

Learn about Microsoft Office Word 2013, focusing on using Tables and Mail Merge.  This is the 6th in our monthly series of free live webinars.

Word 2013 (Tables and Mail Merge)

 

As evidence that more and more government entities are turning to Microsoft Office 365 cloud services in order to serve their constituents better and at a lower cost, the County of Los Angeles has recently announced they are rolling out this technology across their public safety, operation, and health and human services. "In all, over 30 departments will make the move," it's reported.

For this to happen in the most populous county in the United States, we believe this is making a big statement. Key in their decision, according to Dr. Robert Pittman, Chief Information Security Officer for the County of L.A. was the security and built-in compliance for both HIPAA and CJIS (The Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) provides state, local, and federal law enforcement and criminal justice agencies with access to critical, personal information such as fingerprint records, criminal histories, and sex offender registrations.)

If your agency is thinking about how to move their communications and collaboration forward, you can read all about it here.