September 2009
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E-Mail
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Save Big
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If You Can't
Fix it, Feature it |
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Leveraging
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Microsoft
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Quote of the
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"As business owner's, we know
you don’t have time to waste on technical and operational issues.
That’s where we shine! Call us and put an end to your IT problems
finally and forever!”
- Gary & Lynn Jacobson, JCI Group
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to use the Mail Merge feature in Microsoft Office Word 2007
to create labels for use in mass mailings.
Watch the demo to see how it works.
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E-Mail Etiquette for Wireless
Devices: 7 Tips
by Christopher Elliott
Reprinted with permission from the
Microsoft Small Business Center
 This isn't another
lecture about minding your e-mail manners. This is a story
about a new subset of e-mail etiquette. Call it wireless
politeness.
An increasing
number of e-mail messages are being received on small,
wireless devices with limited screen space — devices such as
Windows Mobile-based Smartphones. Being polite is still
important. But so are a number of other considerations,
including brevity, diction and consideration for bandwidth.
Reader Terri
Thornton aptly sums up the frustration with today's wireless
transmissions. "I hate checking my e-mail and having the
subject line be so long that it scrolls forever until I can
figure out what the topic is, or whether it's important,"
says Thornton, a Cincinnati marketing executive. "Worse is
the one-word subject line that says nothing and you have to
open it to find out what it is and discover it's 30 lines of
nothing."
So what is the
etiquette for sending e-mail messages to and from wireless
devices?
Here are seven tips.
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5 Green Ways to Save
Big Bucks
by Heather Clancy
reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business
Center
 Skeptics
suggest an economic crisis will stall sustainable business
practices. They cling to the myth that going green costs
more money. But many small businesses are discovering green
habits save big money, especially when it comes to
information technology.
The savings are many: Reduced power consumption, IT
maintenance and hardware procurement costs. This can lead to
increased productivity. You say your technology strategy
isn't sophisticated? No worries.
Here are five ways you can
make it greener and budget friendly.
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"If you can't fix it,
feature it!”
- Sir Ernest Shackleton
Used with permission of Joel H. Weldon &
Associates, Inc.
http://www.SuccessComesInCans.com
When faced
with pending tragedy or sudden difficulties that could
demoralize the team, effective leaders can decide instead to
celebrate! You can create events to foster joy,
gratitude, humor or hope.
That’s
right! Decide to feature or celebrate what you can’t fix or
what won’t go away immediately . . . things like:
- A
new computer system (let’s say it’s called SWATS)
driving people nuts.
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Construction going on in your working areas or on local
streets.
- The
worst month in history.
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Taking a time-consuming inventory.
- The
busiest month ever—people exhausted.
Merging with another organization, and the ensuing turf
wars
You get
the point! It’s stuff that occurs that will someday go away
or be softened eventually by time. But right now it’s a
difficult, disruptive situation.
So,
“Feature It!” Brag about it! Celebrate it! Make
it funny! Show you know what’s going on and that you
appreciate their frustrations and concerns. Go for humor if
you can. For the six examples above,
Read more
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Leveraging Technology
Mitigates Risks, Controls Costs and Helps Meet Demands of Growing
Businesses
By Richard J. Reiffer,
Trivalent Group
 As a small business
expands, the need to manage this growth with updated technology
should rate high on a company’s list of priorities. Should an
organization experience rapid growth in a short period of time and
fail to advance its technology to meet these new demands, the
business owner may face significant challenges in the future,
including loss of revenues, waning market share and adverse customer
perceptions.
Incorporating
the
following tips into the company business plan will help ensure a
smooth transition.
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A
high school teacher
hung this sign under the
clock in her classroom.
"Time will pass . . . Will you?"
~James
E. Myers
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