June 2011
In this issue:

Safety is Key

A disaster can strike at any time. You and your coworkers should know what to grab and where to go if an emergency happens.

Does your company have an emergency plan in place? Ask around, and if no plan is in place, help create one.

Employee safety should be THE top priority when disaster strikes. When an emergency happens it is important for employees to react quickly and with purpose. Knowledge and practice are paramount.

Click here for employee safety tips from Ready.gov.

Know anyone struggling with their technology? We can help. To thank you for the trust you have put in us we will send you a special gift for each referral you make to us. This months free gift is a $100 gift card to South Coast Surf Shops.
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Is a Remote Workforce the Right Solution for Your Business?
used with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Site

Ask yourself the following questions to evaluate whether a remote workforce suits your business.

1. Are you in a client-service business?
2. Do your employees spend more than 50 percent of their time at client locations?
3. Do most of your employees have laptop computers?
4. Do you have employees who travel frequently as part of their jobs?

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What You Need to Know Before Embracing Social Networking
used with permission from Symantec

Summary: Begin with a formal and well-understood policy for employees’ use of public sites like Facebook and Twitter. Then follow the five recommendations in this article for balancing the risks and opportunities presented by social networking.

When Adam Savage, the tech-savvy host of the popular TV show “MythBusters,” posted a picture on Twitter of his Toyota Land Cruiser, he was sharing a lot more information than he realized. As The New York Times reported last August: “Embedded in the image was a geotag, a bit of data providing the longitude and latitude of where the photo was taken. Hence, he revealed exactly where he lived. And since the accompanying text was “Now it’s off to work,” potential thieves knew he would not be at home.”

Fortunately for Savage, nothing untoward resulted from his inadvertent revelation. But the incident highlighted a point that security experts and privacy advocates have been making for some time now: namely, that the growing use of social networking sites can have serious, if unforeseen, consequences.

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5 Skills for a Successful Life
by Marlene Chism

From my experience as a speaker and consultant, it seems that striving for success creates much unnecessary drama. The image that comes to mind for me is rowing with all of your might to get to an island that never appears. When do I get there? How do I get there faster? What if someone else gets there first? If there is drama in the boat, getting to the island isn’t going to be much better.

With that in mind, here are five skills that will make your success journey one worth savoring.

1. Define success
2. Seek and experience joy
3. Take care of yourself
4. Master your beliefs
5. Own your choices

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How Well Do You Know Your Network?
by Blake Britton, VP of Axxys Technologies

New client engagements are an exciting venture as they pose new challenges that our team is always ready to take on. Over the many years we have been serving the business community there continues to be a common theme among companies that view IT as nothing more than a necessary toolset for accomplishing various business tasks, a lack of technology records and maintenance. Here are a few of the first items we look at when assessing the use of IT within any business: documentation, data/server room, and age of computers.

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