In an article I wrote a while back called Corporate Culture Counts, I briefly wrote about the J.M. Smucker Company. I believe this company is an excellent role model to follow for teach-ing anyone how to successfully run a business today. Founded in 1897, this company now employs over 4,800 employees and is doing over $4.7 billion in sales. Tim and Richard Smucker are the Co-CEOs for the J.M. Smucker Company and they believe they serve 6 constituents:
With all of the buzz lately about everything being ―in the cloud,‖ you are probably wondering exactly what Cloud Computing is. First, take this easy 30-second quiz to determine if you are currently using Cloud Computing:
A few months back tornados ripped through Joplin, MO and Tuscaloosa, Alabama causing massive devastation. If you were fortunate, you only had to suffer through minor interruptions of utility services, with others paying a far steeper price. In fact, a colleague of mine who also offers IT services had his office in Joplin reduced to a pile of rubble (see photo).
I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of a Facebook application that allows you to record a message that will be shared with your friends and family after you die. While the concept isn’t a new one, putting it on a social media site certainly is.
If you travel a lot and you’re tired of anemic laptop batteries that make you hunt down a power outlet in the airport, you’ll want to know about these new portables that can sustain you from LAX to New York. The four netbooks and four notebooks, arranged in order from longest to shortest battery life, will keep you going for anywhere from 6 and a half hours to nearly 9 hours. With battery power like that, you’ll be able to keep your attention on your work and be very productive on the road.
“We lost all the data on our old computer system, … , Jexet Technologies was able to check up the data on the old computer and retrieved it. … For the new system to be established, they make sure we able to get everything from the purchase of computer to set up new computers and immigrating the old database into the new system for us. All that were taken care for us.”
Groupon, launched in November 2008 in Chicago, is a highly successful online marketing venue for businesses looking to gain more customers and for consumers looking for great deals on things they already buy. Here’s how it works: Businesses wanting to reach more customers sign up for a “daily deal” promotion where they offer some product or service at half off the normal costs. Groupon then sends that offer out to a list of users who have signed up to receive these daily deals. But here’s the “catch” (or the brilliance depending on how you look at it): in order for the deal to be “on,” a certain number of people must buy the deal – otherwise it’s off.
Your chances of talking your way out of a traffic ticket are slim – but it’s not uncommon for a driver to talk themselves INTO one by insulting the officer or annoying them enough to write a ticket when they might have otherwise let them off with a warning. Here are the things NOT to say
A phishing e-mail is an e-mail sent by a hacker designed to fool the recipient into downloading a virus, giving up their credit card number, personal information (like a social security number), or account or login information to a particular web site. Often these e-mails are well designed to look exactly like an official notification from the site they are trying to emulate.
“The world is against me and I can’t take it anymore!” cried the distraught woman. She had just called a crisis hotline desperate for someone to help her. “Last week I was in a car accident, my house was broken into, and now my computer has crashed and erased all of my business files!” This woman was already having a bad week, but it was that stupid computer that finally made her snap.