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An outage: Lessons learned
Westminster College does not currently have a backup generator protecting its data center and telephone system. That is about to change. Backup generators are no longer optional. That--and other lessons learned--from recent outages at the college. by Scott Lowe
Tags: Phone, Data Center, Payroll, Outage, Backup Generator, Data Centers, Storage, Backups, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Scott Lowe
Blog posts 2008-07-30
IT consultant strategies for weathering economic downturns
Check out these tips for keeping your consulting business afloat when the economy is tanking. Chip Camden discusses five marketing tips from Steve McKee and provides six do's and don'ts of his own. by Chip Camden
Tags: Information Technology, Business, Client, Consulting, Chip Camden, Outsourcing, Strategy, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Finance, Marketing
Blog posts 2008-07-28
The multiple faces of identity theft
During a routine check of her new 401k account, "Holli" discovered something that wasn't quite right. The name of another person was attached to her account. A person she didn't know. It is something the experts call Social Security Number-only identity theft. And it is more popular...
Tags: U.S., Social Security Number, Worker, Identity, Holli, SSN, Paulino Rodriguez, Social Security, Identity Theft, Operational Accounting, Government, Security, Finance, Tricia Liebert
Blog posts 2008-05-28
Announcing your social security number on national radio is a bad idea
In a series of commercials that have caused everyone in the security industry to roll their eyes and/or wince loudly, LifeLock's CEO, Todd Davis, offers up his Social Security number as "proof" that his company can keep a client's identity from being stolen. But according to a class action lawsuit...
Tags: Bureau, Radio, Social Security Number, Fraud, LifeLock, Social Security, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Government, Business Operations, Finance, Tricia Liebert
Blog posts 2008-05-23
Assigning priorities: Which really is top priority?
We used to have an engineer at our office who would always turn in work requests claiming his job was the top priority. He would even evoke the name of the boss to give credence to his sense of urgency. However, I would never succumb to anyone's priority claim (especially...
Tags: Priority, Request, Productivity, Operational Accounting, Finance, Joe Rosberg
Blog posts 2008-05-06
The top 10 tech companies in the 2008 Fortune 500
This week, Fortune Magazine released its data on the 2008 Fortune 500, which will officially be released when the May 5 edition of the magazine hits the newsstands. Below are the top 10 technology companies on this year's list (note that companies such as AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint are not...
Tags: Fortune 500, Fortune Magazine, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-05-01
Crimeware-as-a-Service: The next great thing in malicious attacks
We have all learned the hard ugly truth about malicious software and the proliferation of software available to do horrible things to our computers. But Crimeware-as-a Service? I think that, secretly, many IT professionals give computer criminals very little thought. I, for one, have difficulty conjuring a sinister image....
Tags: Criminal, Finjan Software Inc., Malicious Attack, Crimeware-as-a-Service, Social Security, Productivity, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Government, Finance, Tricia Liebert
Blog posts 2008-04-09
Should you charge the same rates to all clients?
Do you have "One Rate to rule them all", or do you vary your rates by client?  There are a number of good reasons to bill at different rates: The kind of work you do for each client varies, and the price that each of these markets will...
Tags: Client, Rate, Operational Accounting, Finance, Chip Camden
Blog posts 2008-02-01
Would you want to work for IBM?
IBM have shocked many of their technical staff with a 15% pay cut! The move comes after IBM was forced to settle a lawsuit brought against them by employees back in 2006. The employees, mainly technical staff, claimed that the company was illegally withholding overtime payments by classifying the...
Tags: Overtime, Staff, IBM Corp., Government, Operational Accounting, Finance, Justin Fielding
Blog posts 2008-01-27
How to get paid on time
If all of your clients always pay your consulting fee in a timely fashion, consider yourself blessed.  Who among us that has been consulting for any length of time has not had at least one customer that stretched the limits of their agreement when it comes to payday?  Oh, that first...
Tags: Payment, Client, Operational Accounting, Finance, Chip Camden
Blog posts 2008-01-25
SourceForge Marketplace goes online
SourceForge's Marketplace enables registered open-source projects to offer paid services and support through the site. It will compete against Red Hat Exchange and Novell's Market Start service programs. An excerpt from InternetNews: According to Mike Rudolph, vice president for SourceForge and SourceForge.net Marketplace, the SourceForge.net Marketplace...
Tags: SourceForge, SourceForge.net Marketplace, Open Source, Operational Accounting, Finance, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-12-07
How to manage invoicing and receivables as an independent consultant
Once you're in business for yourself, the third question you have to ask (after you've successfully answered "Where do I find any business?" and "How do I get it all done?") is "How do I bill and keep track of who owes me money?" Way...
Tags: Accounting, Receivables, Consultant, Invoice, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Chip Camden
Blog posts 2007-11-02
SAP shows 10% increase in profit
The world's largest maker of business software applications, SAP, reports a 10% increase in third-quarter profit due to an increase in license sales. License sales is considered a major indicator of future maintenance and consulting revenue. It rose 11 percent to $1.02 billion. ...
Tags: Euro, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Software, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-10-19
Skype underperforms; EBay admits to mistakes
The timesonline reported yesterday that eBay has admitted to massively overpaying for Skype. Back in 2005 eBay bought Skype for a whopping $2.6 billion; now they have warned shareholders that they will have to take an impairment charge of $900 million! In 2005 eBay put a...
Tags: Impairment, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Networking, Corporate Law, Performance Management, Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Justin Fielding
Blog posts 2007-10-03
What to do when you get in over your head
It hasn't happened to me for a long time, but back when I first started consulting independently I would sometimes find myself in a situation where I really didn't have a clue about what I was doing. Maybe it was the need for income or an...
Tags: Project, Client, Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Chip Camden
Blog posts 2007-09-19
The ultimate strategy for Set for Life revealed
Game shows are big business on network television and I admit that I might watch one from time to time while eating dinner or reading discussion threads in the evenings. Of course, what constitutes a game show these days is really just a variation of flipping a coin â€" pure...
Tags: Game, Strategy, Payment, Inflation, Games, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Operational Accounting, Personal Technology, Finance, Mark Kaelin
Blog posts 2007-08-20
Amazon does a la PayPal or CheckOut with its new Flexible Payment Service
Amazon, the immensely successful e-commerce site, has unveiled its Flexible Payment Service Amazon FPS. The online payment service will take on competitors such as eBay's PayPal and Google's CheckOut. The service provides developers with APIs for accepting credit card and debit card payments....
Tags: Payment, Payment Service, Amazon.com Inc., PayPal, Service, Checkout, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-08-08
One Touch Business Travel and the End of the Expense Report
Read Concur's paper to learn why, despite the fact that billions of dollars per year are spent on business travel and entertainment (T&E) by employees on behalf of their organizations: Many companies are still not maximizing the value of that spend because they're relying on multiple processes...
Tags: Concur Technologies, T&E, Operational Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing
White papers 2007-07-31
Resolving loose relationships in SQL
In this SQL Server tip, Arthur Fuller shows how to "equate" charges with payments and provides a model for resolving similar business problems. With a little creative thinking about particular business problems, you can often devise a solution in SQL. For instance, companies can choose between two...
Tags: SQL, Loose.Charges, Loose.Payments, Arthur Fuller, Operational accounting, Databases, payment, Loose.Charges value, Loose.Payments value, SQL Server Newsletter, Method, Finance
Technical articles 2007-05-22
Geek Trivia: A tax to grind
Which company filed the largest U.S. tax return in history? It's spring in the northern hemisphere, when young men's fancies turn to thoughts of love. But if you live in the United States, thoughts of love will have to wait -- at least for another week. That's...
Tags: Jay Garmon, Taxes, Operational accounting, income, income tax, tax, Geek Trivia Newsletter, U.S., General Electric Co., Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
Technical articles 2007-04-10


PC Troubleshooter Resource Guide, Fifth Edition
Ensure you have the solutions you need to troubleshoot power supplies, CPUs, video cards, disk drives, CD and DVD drives, motherboards, sound cards, USB issues, monitors, printers, laptops, network connections, spyware, Windows XP and more.
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IT Professional's Guide to Policies and Procedures, Third Ed
Whether you're creating policies for management, training, personnel, support, privacy, Internet/e-mail usage, security, or inventory, you'll meet the needs of your entire enterprise with this one download!
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