Step away from that computer…there is a new social media channel that is garnering significant attention. Pinterest is a social pinboard that has been growing at a faster pace than Facebook had at a similar time in its history. According to published stats, Pinterest garnered more than 7 million unique visitors in December. I was [...]
Microsoft Office Excel can be used to create simple to highly complex spreadsheets in order to organize and analyze data. You may find the need to export data to Excel from another source or you may be working with an extensive spreadsheet that may contain duplicate data. To check your Excel spreadsheet for duplicates, use [...]
We fear it more than we fear needles, spiders and childbirth combined. Trips to the dentist would be welcome by comparison. And yet, the IRS only audits around 1% of all individual tax returns annually. So while the odds are pretty low that your return will be picked for further scrutiny, nevertheless, we fear the [...]
If you have paid any attention to the state of software recently, you have heard terms such as “in the cloud” or “Software as a Service” (SAAS) and probably wondered “what the heck is this trend?” Do I need to go back to grade school science and remember the difference between stratus and cumulus cloud [...]
As technology has become more mobile and user friendly, one tool to consider adding to your toolkit is a portable document scanner. In this month’s newsletter, we thought we would share some of the reasons you may consider using one. Portable document scanners work in much of the same way that regular scanners do, enabling [...]
Truth in advertising can be as oxymoronic a phrase as jumbo shrimp. After all, we are constantly bombarded with outlandish claims on late night infomercials or other campaigns the “Mad Men” of Madison Avenue can dream up. It is certainly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff of over the top testimonials and statements [...]
I know what you are thinking – yet another social media site that I need to get a handle on. Well, transitioning to or supplementing your current social media strategy with Google+ may not be as painful as the annual polar bear ritual plunge into icy waters. After all, Google is quickly replacing (or same [...]
With the passing of Steve Jobs last month, we were assailed with the technology pundits using words like visionary, genius, the Einstein of our times. Many took to lamenting that the future of technology will be severely hampered as the next great ‘inventor’ of his stature has yet to arise and lay claim to the [...]
Do you ever get the feeling that the last quarter of the year has some sort of weird metaphysical spell on it, transforming the typical 3 months of a calendar quarter mysteriously into 9 days instead of 90? If you are like me, I feel I enter a time warp starting October 1st and emerge [...]
Thanksgiving is not just about gorging on turkey and all of the trimmings, watching football and falling into a tryptophan induced food coma. It is a reminder to all of us to give thanks for the blessings that we enjoy, our friends and family. And while we may do that (hopefully) on Turkey Day, we [...]
