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Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Wednesday, June 23, 2010
This is a blog maintained by the home office of CMIT Solutions. You can learn more about our company by visiting our website at http://www.cmitsolutions.com. We are a technology service franchise providing solutions to small businesses. Our focus is providing value to small businesses by...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Wednesday, June 23, 2010
In the summertime, you have a few unique things to worry about: traveling with a computer; making sure that computers don’t suffer from heat or lack of ventilation; and ensuring that a big storm or hurricane doesn’t knock out your systems while you’re away.
If you’re traveling with a computer,...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Friday, June 18, 2010
The CMIT Summer Webinar Series is here! Listen to why you should attend this event.
One of the biggest complaints of small business owners is that they don't get to spend enough time on their own professional development.
CMIT is pleased to host business author and humor columnist Lisa Earle...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Thursday, June 17, 2010
The world of cybercrime is vast and varied, but you can still make at least one generalization that holds true: hackers will always gravitate toward popular sites and programs in the hopes of maximizing the reward for their efforts. Put another way, this means that most software with a wide user...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Folks are so concerned about protecting their computers from malware, spyware, and hackers that they often overlook one of the easiest intrusion methods of all. If you don’t “lock” your computer, it’s open for anybody to access the moment you step away from your desk.
There are a couple of ways to...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Tuesday, June 08, 2010
In deference to our own advice, we’ll keep this refresher on email etiquette short and to the point!
1. Keep it brief. More people are checking and responding to email from their smartphones. This trend, combined with ever-shortening attention spans and people’s increasingly cramped schedules,...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Thursday, May 27, 2010
Microsoft Word is full of what we might politely call “quirks,” and among the more irritating is the apparent occasional inability to delete a page break. It often happens when you’re editing a document. You’re zipping along, deleting here and inserting there, when you realize you have an extra...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Tuesday, May 18, 2010
No matter what field you’re in – whether you’re an accounting firm of two or a dentist’s office of 20 – chances are the one truly indispensable piece of business technology you use every day is your email. In fact, it’s so indispensible that you probably don’t even think about it … until it doesn’t...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Many small businesses have huge problems when it comes to managing processes and sharing information. With every worker wearing multiple hats, it’s often difficult to keep track of who’s in charge of what, to say nothing of where all the information on a particular project is stored. So what do...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Even if you’re not familiar with all of the new developments in the social networking arena, chances are you’ve used LinkedIn to connect with people professionally. What you may not know is that LinkedIn lets you do a lot more than just connect yourself to friends and coworkers. Its Groups feature...
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