Technology Tips for Small/Mid-sized Businesses

Office Energy Savings Tips

Steven G. Atkinson — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:49:11 +0000

When looking at the standard monthly costs of many businesses, three of the areas that has a great portion of those cost are lighting, office machines and the heating and cooling (HVAC) system. Lighting: Reduce lighting. There are a couple of ways to do this, one of the best is to take advantage of natural [...]

6 Ways to a Greener Office

Steven G. Atkinson — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:31:41 +0000

Use Reusable Items Use Mugs with advertising for coffee and water. Give each employee two mugs, one to use at their office workstation and another to use at home. When serving coffee to a client or prospective client give them a mug promoting your business to take with them. Read Then Print For some it [...]

How Important is Technology to Your Business?

Steven G. Atkinson — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:01:23 +0000

It doesn’t matter whether the business is one that is highly visible to the public, such as a retail establishment or a not for profit venue, or one that is never seen by the public. One thing for certain, it’s sure to use some type of technology. There are many different forms of technology. It [...]

Conserve Energy – A Top 10 List

Steven G. Atkinson — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:27:34 +0000

10 Ways to Conserve Energy It doesn’t matter whether you consider Global Warming a fact or a hoax. The one thing for certain is that we do harm the environment every day. These are things we can do to not only save and conserve energy but also help the environment. 10) Follow The Three ‘R’ [...]

Text Messaging Codes – Not For Business Use

Steven G. Atkinson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:12:21 +0000

420 – Marijuana-smoking 8 – Oral Sex Banana – Penis FB – F*** Buddy FOL – Fond of Leather GNOC – Get Naked On Cam GYPO – Get Your Pants Off IMEZRU – I Am Easy, Are You? IWSN – I Want Sex Now ILF/MD – I Love Female/Male Dominance J/O – Jerking Off KFY [...]

Text Messaging Codes

Steven G. Atkinson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:17:24 +0000

Do you Text Message? Does others in your organization? Here is a list of many of the common text messaging codes. 10Q — Thank You 1DAY — One day 1ON1 — One on one 1NC — Once 2 — To/Two/Too 2DAY — Today 2bctnd — To be continued. 2d4 — To die for 2g4u — [...]

How to Save Money on Telecomunications

Steven G. Atkinson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:23:04 +0000

After electric and fuel costs, one of the biggest cost to do business is through communications. It’s nearly impossible for a business to survive today without using telephones and a connection to the Internet. But these services aren’t cheap and it’s not hard for them to become out of control. There are ways to control [...]

Hello! I’m sorry; I can’t talk right now I’m at a funeral.

Steven G. Atkinson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:53:00 +0000

It seems that when it comes to talking on their cellphone people think it’s their right to talk and use it wherever or whenever they want. But most times if you look around and think about where you are, whom you are with, or what is happening, you’d think twice about using the phone. In [...]

Caution that bill may be just an advertisement.

Steven G. Atkinson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

The practice is not new, but there are domain-registering companies who routinely send out a document to the domain name owner, that appears as a bill to re-register your web name. It is their way of having you transfer the registration of your web address from your current register to them. In some ways this [...]

Instant Communications is Now Possible, Is it a Good thing?

Steven G. Atkinson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:17:04 +0000

One of the biggest changes of technology over the past 25 years is now we have instant communications. 30 years ago instant communications was through the telephone. It may not have mattered where one was, a phone could easily be found. Payphones were everywhere. If you needed to ask a question of your supervisor, you [...]