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What's IN Your Mind? |
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Fighting Images in Word |
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Et tu, Printer |
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Security Updates are Vital |
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Windows XP |
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Your Business is BYOD |
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Worth a Click! |
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Quote and Cartoon |
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Archives |
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Social Business |
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The Future of IT |
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Inserting a Screen Clipping |
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Business Continuity Tip |
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Worth a
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If the
only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see
every problem as a nail.
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Archives:Click here to view past editions of our
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Social business: From
curiosity to strategic imperative
used with
permission from IBM ForwardView
In this highly connected world where our personal lives are chronicled with Facebook and Twitter, there's no doubt that social networking has changed how we communicate. But in the past couple years, social technology has proven to be more than just a way of staying connected to friends.
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What’s
IN Your Mind?
There’s
just not enough time in the day, right? In David Allen, in
“Getting Things Done”, puts forward the idea that the issue
isn’t that we have too many things to do, but that we allow
our minds to handle the same thing over and over, where it
should be handling each thing only once. There is a class of
software, called “Mindmapping” software, that’s intended to
do just that. Now, there’s many of us that may worry about
the consequences of actually mapping the recesses of our
minds, but fear not, the software doesn’t suck the thoughts
out automatically, you have to put into the software what
you wish to be mapped.
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Fighting images in Microsoft
Word
 Remember this? You're working on a document – maybe it's a report for your sales meeting, a set of instructions for a client, or a promotional flyer – and you are trying to place an image. You're bumping it down a few keystrokes at a time to get it perfectly situated between paragraphs or at the bottom of the page when suddenly it goes flying off, jumping to the top of the page or disappearing completely.
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Et tu, printer?
used with
permission from HP Technology at Work
 When you think about protecting your business from security risks, what comes to mind? Most likely, you're not thinking about your office printers. But you should.
Printers found in many businesses these days do more than just print.
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Why Security Updates Are
Vital
used with
permission from Norton by Symantec
 Perhaps it's become a cliché, all this talk about the pace of technology, and change as a constant, and the need to stay ahead of the curve. But, clichés develop for a reason--usually because there's truth in them. In the case of computer software, and particularly Internet security software, all the pace-of-technology talk is warranted.
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Windows XP. . .it was nice
knowing you
 One of the most popular and longest lived Microsoft operating systems that we all know and love, Windows XP, has almost run its course. Microsoft has announced that they will end support for XP on April 8, 2014.
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Your business is BYOD. Now
what?
used with
permission from HP Technology at Work
 After serious consideration, you've allowed workers to BYOD (bring-your-own-device). They can now use their own laptops, notebooks, smartphones and tablets in the office and to conduct business after hours. Now it's time to quickly swing into action and choose the right supporting technology and IT strategy for maximizing your productivity and network security.
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The Future of IT
Used with the
permission of http://thenetwork.cisco.com
by Padmasree Warrior
What an exciting time to be in the tech industry. We are at the beginning of a major transition to the Mobile-Cloud era. Trends like bring your own device (BYOD), access anywhere, virtualization, and machine-to-machine connections have given way to a new breed of applications. We estimate that approximately 50 billion devices will be connected by 2020. In 2010 alone, more than 350, 000 applications were developed with more than three million downloads. A 44-fold increase in data creation is predicted from 2010 to 2020, with 34 percent of it in the cloud. All of this leads to a world of intuitive connections between people, processes, data and things on the network – the Internet of Everything.
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Inserting a Screen Clipping
into OneNote
OneNote is a powerful application that acts as a digital scrapbook – in which you can collect notes, images, and audio/video recordings. It was first introduced in Office 2003, but it has often been overlooked. Here are the steps to insert a screenshot into a OneNote document:
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Go to the Insert tab.
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Hover over Screen Clipping. Note in the dialog box that pops up: “Any text found in the screen clipping is searchable.”
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Business Continuity Tip
Cybercrime Goes Mobile
Mobile devices have become an essential tool for everyday life. We check in for flights, make online purchases, access bank accounts, and connect to social media all on mobile-enhanced websites and newly developed applications.
The worldwide adoption of the smartphone has prompted cybercriminals to shift their focus toward mobile users and away from the traditional PC environment. According to Norton's Cybercrime Report, 1 in 4 adults have been a victim of mobile and social cybercrime.
So what can we do to protect our mobile devices and guard our personal information? Use the tips below to keep your smartphone safe and secure.
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