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Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Online conferencing allows people to meet, collaborate, and exchange ideas without having to be in the same place – which comes in handy when corporate travel budgets take a hit.
Combine reduced travel allowances with many smaller businesses’ decision to downsize or even eliminate...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Thursday, June 04, 2009
It’s just a good sound business practice to keep a healthy cushion of cash on hand at all times. And with credit markets tight, you need to keep what credit reserves you have for real emergencies.
At the same time you’re attending to cash flow issues, you’ve also got to keep on top of your...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Friday, May 29, 2009
Picture it: You're a small business with 10 or so users, getting by without a full-time IT support person. When you have problems, you call up an independent contractor who acts as your go-to computer guy.
It's the Friday before a three-day weekend and you've got a big problem. Your server just...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Top 10 Best Ideas For Setting Goals
By Hilton Johnson
You cannot pick up a book or participate in a training program today without the author or instructor teaching the power of goal setting. Yet, most people today spend more time planning a two-week vacation than planning their lives by...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Wednesday, May 20, 2009
If you're looking to pull just a few isolated pieces of data out of a large table, Excel's AutoFilter function might be just the ticket. You don't have to write any formulas, and it's easy to undo a filter and move on to a different category. Let's say you're reviewing a long list of clients and...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Tuesday, May 12, 2009
When the swine flu outbreak hit the news recently, word of the illness wasn’t the only thing spreading rapidly around the globe. As usual, online identity thieves took advantage of bad news to launch a number of phishing and malware attacks.
Some phishing emails contained subject lines claiming...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Thursday, May 07, 2009
Even people with tidy desks and pin-neat offices sometimes find themselves with a whole lot of clutter – on their hard drives. But just because storage is cheap these days doesn’t mean you need to have a lot of spare bits and bytes hanging around. Keeping extra files on your hard drive can make it...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Friday, May 01, 2009
More workers than ever are ditching the office and working from home, on the road, or from client sites. According to WorldatWork, occasional telework has risen dramatically in just the past several years. Look at these statistics:
The number of employee telecommuters in the United States...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Tuesday, April 21, 2009
When you're planning a project, just looking at a calendar can make you feel like you have a lot more time than you actually have. Particularly at the end of the year, when a number of holidays occur, the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's can translate into a pretty limited number of...
Submitted by CMIT Solutions on Wednesday, April 15, 2009
If you really want to keep your data safe and ensure that it will not be lost, destroyed, or corrupted in the event of a disaster, most storage practitioners advise keeping it in at least three locations.
A single location gives you virtually no protection against disaster. Two locations might be...
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