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Risks of a cut-rate provider
Many small businesses are turning to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) as Outsourced IT Departments. The day-to-day tech needs and strategic management tend to be too demanding for the average small business owner. Managed Service Providers are able to step in and take over, leaving time for small business owners to spend more time doing whatever…
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Web Accessibility: New Imperatives, Same Mission
If your school receives public funding and is accessible by “the public” at large, your website may be the focus of an accessibility review by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Web accessibility is drawing lots of attention from K12 school leaders as OCR reviews have picked up in the last 18 months,…
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Grace Hopper
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we wanted to share a little about a woman who was a trailblazer in the technology field. Grace Hopper was a computer scientist. She held a Ph. D. in mathematics from Yale University, was a Naval Rear Admiral, and a pioneer in computer language. Grace Hopper’s most notable accomplishment was…
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Why you need a CTO
A Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is becoming a staple for all successful companies, of any size, in any industry. Once thought of as a luxury, it is now essential to have this tech and process savvy, business-minded person on your side. In recent conversations with other business owners about CTOs, I realized just how vital…
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Action Steps to Run Your Network at the Speed of Learning
Today’s technology landscape for a school isn’t anything like it was in 2007. When I first began to coach teachers on the use of technology, we had fixed labs with projectors and a teacher laptop was an innovation. With the proliferation of classroom hardware, and the ascendance of cloud-based resources, our brave new world is…
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We are Feeling the Change
For the longest time, the adoption rate for technology within the Construction Industry was cloaked with ambiguity and a certain level of resistance. This industry was not alone in that method of operation. Let’s be honest, adopting technology in any way that will make an impact is difficult. It is expensive, disruptive, and requires buy-in…
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Small Business Cyber Security Tips
With ransomware on the rise, and small businesses being easy targets for hackers, if you don’t have the right security measures in place, it is not a question of if you will suffer a cyber incident, but when. In fact, 44% of small businesses reported being the victim of a cyber attack and the average…
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The Four Corners Approach to Phishing
Phishing is one of the most successful tactics that bad actors use to infiltrate small to mid-sized businesses’ networks. It has been a tried and true tactic for such a long time because it takes advantage of human behavior and emotions, like muscle memory and fear, greed, or trust. By now, nearly all employees get…
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Job Costing
Job costing is something you are surely already doing. It’s a basic requirement for all construction projects. You have to keep track and account for all of the costs associated with a project for invoicing and management purposes. But, are you costing everything you could be? How can you generate deeper insights? How will that…
