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April 08, 2020
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Atomic Habits by James Clear The story of James Clear is fascinating; a freak accident during a high school baseball game left him in a coma on life support. Miraculously, he survived, but was then faced with quality of life limitations. Motor skills had to be re-learned; the recovery road was very long. Knowing the […]
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April 01, 2020
Coronavirus Stimulus Check Scam Alert
On the heels of April Fools Day, I thought I’d share how scammers are trying to fool you in another coronavirus scam. You have probably heard about the CARES Act with its $2 trillion stimulus package that will send many Americans checks, issue loans to small business, and provides other benefits. Hackers are capitalizing on […]
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March 31, 2020
Who Hosts Your Domain Name?
Who Hosts Your Domain Name? We just went through the process of moving all our hosted email clients from an end-of-life anti-spam service to a new service. This kind of project is typical in the IT industry, but we always learn a ‘lesson’ during the course of the work. In this case, we found out […]
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March 27, 2020
Disaster Planning Checklist
As recent times have shown us, disasters can and do happen. We’ve compiled a checklist to help you map out a Disaster Recovery Plan for your business.
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March 25, 2020
Sage and Families First Coronovirus Response Act
We’ve had a couple of clients ask about Sage’s plans to address the new Sick Leave, Extended FMLA changes. Mary has reached out to Sage and here is their official response: The President recently signed H.R. 6201, the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” to provide emergency supplemental appropriations and support Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
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March 25, 2020
Millennials Matter by Danita Bye
Millennials Matter by Danita Bye Danita Bye held a breakout session at the C12 Currents event in GA this past May. Her background is in training sales people for success. In more recent years, she has turned her attention to training and mentoring Millennials in the work place. Many of the stereotypes associated with the […]
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March 22, 2020
COVID-19 – We’re Here for You
COVID-19 – We’re Here For You To our clients… Our primary office is in Illinois. In response to IL Governor Pritzker’s announcement on Friday March 20th, we wanted to provide an update for you, our clients. We are happy to report that most of our clients are in our hosting environments which are built for […]
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March 19, 2020
The Top 3 Options for Remote Access
What a crazy moment in time – each day brings new news and more changes. This is an amazing time – with computers as part of our daily lives, we are in a unique moment in history where a large part of the population can truly ‘isolate’ themselves for their own protection and the protection […]
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March 17, 2020
Emailing More Than 20 People? Stop and Read This!
Emailing More Than 20 People? Stop and Read This! Did you know that if you include more than 20 email addresses in your message, your email could be flagged as spam? If that happens, there are a couple of things that are going to happen that you probably won’t like and might not have anticipated. […]
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March 12, 2020
Security Patches – Lots of Big Updates
Microsoft Patches – Lots of Big Updates So you’re finally on Windows 10 (at least you should be). Microsoft has some significant updates for the Windows 10 machines. These are all good updates, no concerns, but the files are larger than usual, so downloading them during a patch management window is taking longer than you’re […]
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